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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=David Roberts Carlie Sorosiak and Alan MacDonaldLuisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=My Burptastic Body The Repair Shop Craft Book |author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Dirty BertieIllustrator)

|summary=Oh, I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to be young and innocent, and programme when I want to be full of questionscheered up. Questions like After a hard day, there'is eating my bogies good for mes nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, or 'why the value is poo brown', or 'in what makes sweat smell'these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. You don't have No expense appears to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the answers – respectively, no; it's down to dead bacteria; experts and it doesnthey't – re all brilliant at explaining what itis they's other bacteria againre doing. If you think you have a lad (or, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin024162343X|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I worried when was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it said, ''A family guide to growing fruit and vegdisputed the existence of a 'god'. Why did it worry meWhere was the proof? WellIn history lessons, it's a mere 48 pages and was probably worse still. Not too long after the cover says that it includes ''Gamesend of WWII, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which dondidn't completely cover what I need so much want to know learn about growing fruit the British army's successes (and vegoccasional failures, so wasnbut we didn't this going dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to fall a little short? be there in the first place. WellLooking back, it doesnI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''t - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Rutherford Jeremy Dronfield and Tanya BatrakDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out Fritz and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young child's face and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=There is a misfortune We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the modern worldneighbours, in that we have killed off a common hobby from being dutiful when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people comes to hardly see any of the stars synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to get to learn make sure the constellations, and while I only went out to go lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours'meteor hunting', it's patently obvious that each Friday night – the chance to lie down Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and stargaze is workmanlike as a dying onelight switch. Elsewhere But this is the time just before the nocturnal youth can struggle Austrian leader is going to have much opportunity cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to explore keep the night-time nature Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back gardenGermany, and too many don't even get that chance, for want of possession as did all the round-ups of oneJews. Yes, if this book is only read once These in their turn leave the daytime younger Kurt at home with his mother and never referred sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to againBritain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, due unknown initially to lack of opportunityeach other, it really will be a crying shamepacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1913750353|title=National Trust: Go Wild in Britannica's Word of the WoodsDay|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=I am ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a man who likes his creature comfortssub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. Always have been, always will – and creature comforts don It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''t involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, tells you how to watch creatures, as far as Ipronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''m concerned. Luckily), however, many people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out gives you a definition and about, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at them, and spending time out of doors for then includes the hell of word in a sentence so that you know how itshould be used. This book is the first stage to that, You also get an engaging and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doorfrequently amusing illustration too. And even if itI don's your t think I''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now0711266204|title=The Story Secret Life of the CarBirds|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summaryauthor=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me to have a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good or bad, Moira Butterfield and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for the shelf. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Libby Walden|title=In Focus: CitiesVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=The [[In FocusI have recently discovered a great pleasure: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections I sit and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here we're restricted to just tenwatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Why? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people, of all thingsAn hour can pass without my noticing. Yes, weI're talking citiesve established which species feed from the ground, and while this book tries which pop to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territorygood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. We're seeking the trivialIt would have been wonderful if, the geographical and the culturalas a child, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety I'd had access to be had in the worlda book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''s metropolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB0192779230|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the survival mode there is also the Creative side. This book explores what you can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide Very Short Introductions for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Hansen|title= Cool CodingCurious Young Minds: filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages|rating= 3|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwards. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat The Invisible World of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookIsabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had 'Germs' seems to make do with have become a camcorder that would fit a minicatch-tape that all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you recorded ontoill. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could In the first book in what looks to be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD player, but with awful fidelity). In allvery promising new series, making a film was OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a big old faff, but trying clear and accessible introduction to do anything fancy was almost impossiblethe world of germs. There is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can do something does not mean they will be any goodconfusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1800464495|title=Doodle Dogs100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Best in ShowSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=''Doodle DogsBabies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn' introduces t! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a wide variety strong predictor of artistic styles through later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the idea same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds are afraid of dogs, all maths. But why are we? Most of which can be created very easily, us use maths in daily life without realising and you soon find it follows that doodling giving our children a dog can similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a lot more detailedstrange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and interestingsleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1849767343|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Having been banned from the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarks, I am not sure that I ever want The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or make like an artist. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most art. I see it's a rain dirty valley, but basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the artists sells you Brigadoonnumbers journey. A lot It isn't: it's a hymn of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant praise to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informedmaths. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in good stead and could also be great funeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767009|title=ChildrenIt Isn's Illustrated Thesaurust Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=One This could have been one of the most valuable literary skills those books which children can learn is how 'preaches to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who 'how do you spell...?'know' would be answered with 'that it'EXACTLY as s shameful will avoid it says like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the dictionarysupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. This was fineIn fact, but the familythey're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to readmore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Fortunately those times have now changed My mother was deeply embarrassed and reference told me that she'd get me a book for children are now much more invitingabout it. Not every book comes with A couple of days later I was handed a set of instructions but pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it's worth studying the 'wasn't something which nice people talked about''How to... I ''knew'' sectionmore, not least because similar systems are used in other reference booksbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley1526362759|title=First Science EncyclopediaDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I wasn't introduced What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'science' until I was eleven and went on ve managed to senior school: I wasnget hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't alone in this, but matter: we all need it really was too lateto some extent. ThankfullyYou might want to go into business, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsbe a clever shopper, atoms and molecules and a saver (you might even outer space from a very young age. Whatbecome an ''investor''s needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects ) and give a good grounding. It needs to there might be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a childyou really, 's bookshelf. The 'really'First Science Encyclopedia'want to buy. There' would s also the possibility of using to do both wellgood in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The British MuseumApollo 13 Mission|titleauthor=Origami, Poems David Long and PicturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=CraftsDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered It''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As s fifty years since the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it Apollo 13 mission was launched from the origami which caught my attentionKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but I was surprised by the extent to which story of that journey remains one of the rest greatest survival stories of the book caught my imaginationall time. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simpleSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest levela brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Beautiful GameNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is all about its coloursa self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. And even if Don't groan! I write know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the season when one team in blue knocks another team 1889 World's Fair in blue from Paris encompassed the throne of English footballbest, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wearworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the Sun cover banner when senses. And towering above it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colourall, where were the people of colour in football in most popular and the olden days? There are so many darker sides most hated monument to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question French accomplishment and daring – the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1848576536|title=The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally'Get under your own skin, I found onepick your brains, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewellgo inside your insides!'' That's first book for children, what ''The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time I don't see how you're going could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemotsmuscular system via circulation, puffins, herring gulls respiration and razorbills. Ohdigestion, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going right up to have to find them in every picturethe DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherLangford_Emily|title=Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=When Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you think about it, itcan count anything and there's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home no limit to nearly half of all specieshow far you can go, apart from humansbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. We don't know a lot She knew all about the oceans either - less than 5% odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the area has been exploredlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it is an area was this list of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsherodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called 's 'threeven'Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do . (Actually, this confused me a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are bit at first as they're a stroke subset of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the watereven numbers, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuBuckingham_Dawn|title=100 Steps for ScienceThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Science is What a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the Universe from pull of the smallest specks sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the largest space bound objectsbirds and listening to their song. Point at anything Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied itwas just as good the second time around. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedSo, but if what do you are going to try and do this; at least make it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastlePankhurst_Women|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundred, inventors and that's not a problempoliticians. YesSometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakeshistory at all, we get ten large dioramas of historical activitylet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, all containing twenty things that shouldnthis isn't be true and there. Your taskare plenty of women who, throughout history, should you choose to accept ithave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, is to try and find them allor created something never seen before. And the learning is also So here, as we get text to tell us what in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the goofs were designed to show usstories of some of them. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Lighter than AirWomen in Sport: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderRachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if itWomen in Sport's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close is coming to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I us just didn't get on with studying itbefore the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes It celebrates a century and whatnot I think it was one a half of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as soon diverse as I couldswimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. But then, I didn't have the likes Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy HusbandRooney_Dino|title=The Story of SpaceDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=I Lift the flap books have no actual idea how progressed somewhat since I first got an interest in spacewas a child. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide This one comes with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and that's pretty oldsounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, itsome of whom are very familiar but some I's been so long) and it kind d never heard of rubbed off on me. Perhaps in fact all young children before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are interested in space anywaygetting up to, with background noises, roars and don't need any impetus or reason squawks to look up in wonder. But if they doaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's a pretty good way indeedvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily SuttonMason_poo|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thatI know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's how many. Children will learn lots and lots from poo jokes, but this wonderful book. is brilliant! I learned lots from sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it too. There are 100,000 different kinds of mushrooms. fascinating! Who knew? Well there was so much I certainly didn'tknow about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. This is one Using a mixture of those special books with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrationsfacts and figures, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts photographs and readers of any age will be moved by funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the message that we need to take better care vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of our beautiful environmentpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>