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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker1839948493|title=The Prehistoric Times|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With the ability to read the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channels, the days A World of the newspaper appear to be coming to an end. You could say that they are going to be extinct, much like the dinosaurs. So, if newspapers are a thing of the past and so are dinosaurs, it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and views.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Thomas Flintham|title=Around the World Colouring BookCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Colouring books are In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a useful way sucker for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colourdogs. In nearly eight decades, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational I've never met one I didn't trust andI've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I' m going to still appeal sit down and devour. Then I'm going to the younggo back and read it properly. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: And so itwas with ''s got page upon page A World of pictures to colour (Dogs'', with just a little narrative ninety-six pages devoted entirely to set the scene) with the added attraction of my four pages of stickers-legged friends. You'll see grey shapes Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - and thatshe's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald1529507987|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 artistit's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. My unartistic brain is unable It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to comprehend most artmaths. I see a rain dirty valley, but the artists sells It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you Brigadoonmeet it in everyday life. A lot }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of what makes art great those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is knowing what OK and the ones who ''know'' that it 's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is meant coughing fit to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informedbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to It's a young audience will hold them in good stead celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and could also be great funmarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1776572858|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is It's more than sixty years since I asked how to use reference booksbabies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. As A couple of days later I was handed a child every question pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I began with was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it 'how do you spell...?'wasn't something which nice people talked about'' would be answered with . I ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionaryknew''. This was finemore, but the familywas little ''wiser's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those Thankfully, times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying the ''How to...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|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)

|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in It's fifty years since the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue Apollo 13 mission was launched from the throne of English footballKennedy Space Centre in Florida, it's common knowledge that red is but the more successful colour to wear. But is story of that flame red? Blood red? The red journey remains one of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one greatest survival stories of their own making? all time. And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour 'Survival in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to footballSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission's history it's enough to make is a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt SewellKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Big Bird SpotNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I 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

|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 Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the puffins who1889 World'd arrived on the cliffs s Fair in Paris encompassed the last few days. Finally, I found onebest, after visually sorting through all the other birds on worst and the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun beautiful from many countries and very rewardingcultures. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for childrenFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, ''The Big Bird Spot''put on art shows, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptondance performances, but this time you're going food festivals and concerts to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst stun the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillssenses. OhAnd towering above it all, the most popular and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going the most hated monument to have to find them in every pictureFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Alice BowsherNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|titlerating=5 |genre=LiftChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about thehuman body to curious children-Flap from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and Colour: Oceandigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily'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 no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and they're home to nearly even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of all speciesthe list were even numbers, apart from humansbut the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. We don(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they't know re a lot about subset of the oceans either - less than 5% odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the area has been exploredeven numbers, but it is an area all worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of outstanding beauty. the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! With Alice BowsherI really did mean to just ''glance's ' at ''Lift-The Little Book of the-Flap and Colour: OceanDawn Chorus'' children as young as two have but the pull of the opportunity sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to do resist on a little exploration cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to colour their own picturessong. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the sea we see little more than the movement of the watersecond time around. So, but how different it would be if what do you could see a little of what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuPankhurst_Women|title=100 Steps for ScienceFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=Science A lot of history is a far reaching subject that covers about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost everything that exists as though there were no women in the Universe from the smallest specks history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to the largest space bound objectsread about or regard as role models. Point at anything Of course, this isn't true and there will be some sort are plenty of scientist women who has studied it, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. Trying to fit all of So here, in this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedwonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, but if you are going to try and do this; at least make it readablethe stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Spot the MistakeWomen in Sport: Lands of Long AgoFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before and harangued it for containing errorsthe Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. This book has at least two hundred, It celebrates a century and thata half of the development of women's not a problem. Yessport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakescovering sports as diverse as swimming, we get ten large dioramas of historical activityfencing, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your taskriding, should you choose to accept itskating, is to try and find them allmuch more. And the learning Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usprobably in this book somewhere. Make no mistake, this Each entry is a clever double-page spread with a brief biography and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresRooney_Dino|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. For This onecomes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle through various different ages 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. Meanwhiledinosaurs, we meet a young girl is dreaming variety of flightcreatures, as so many some of whom are wont to dovery familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skywardlayer by layer, before his early demise – leaving showing you what the young womanvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, Sophie Blanchardwith background noises, roars and squawks to go accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it alone 's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and become the first female pilotgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookMason_poo|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and WonderTony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like itknow, I know, sometimes you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I really don't think Iwant to encourage your children've taken too much out of it, all tolds poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and if read it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close by myself when the kids had gone to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying school and found it. fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't like geography – what with having know about poo? The book manages to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – be both funny (and dropped it silly) as soon well as I couldbeing very interesting and educational. But thenUsing a mixture of facts and figures, I didn't have photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the likes vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>poo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.