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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hutton1839948493|title=Cool PhysicsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you arenthat I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't entirely sure trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about a phrase such as 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 ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle A World of wavefront sourcesDogs'', donwith 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=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love 't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened'The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, so youthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're not too far behind in physicsworth. Brownian motionYou see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the Victorian era, experts spend as much time and all of these three things are on effort as is required to achieve the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in desired result. Regular viewers know the world of physics experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is very much neededthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker024162343X|title=The Prehistoric TimesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=2.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With I was the ability to read bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the news on our phones or watch existence of a 'god'. Where was the 24 hour news channelsproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the days end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the newspaper appear British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be coming called 'the colonies' as want to an enddispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. You could say Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that they are going I lacked the maturity to be extinct, much like approach 'the dinosaursproblem' politely. So, if newspapers are a thing of the past and so are dinosaurs, it would make sense that dinosaurs I wish I'd had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case and Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Prehistoric TimesStolen History'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and views.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas FlinthamJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Around the World Colouring BookFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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 neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed 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…
|isbn=024156574X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Colouring books are ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium andTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at know about this colouring brilliant book: it. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s got page upon page of pictures , tells you how to colour pronounce it (with just ''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a little narrative to set definition and then includes the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. YouI don'll see grey shapes - and thatt think I's ve ever encountered a word which uses the signal to get stickeringletter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald0711266204|title=My Burptastic Body Book The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (Dirty Bertieillustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Oh, to be young I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and innocent, and to be full watch the vast numbers of questionsbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Questions like 'is eating An hour can pass without my bogies good for me', or 'why is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell'noticing. You donI't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know ve established which species feed from the answers – respectivelyground, no; it's down which pop to dead bacteria; the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and it doesn't – it's other bacteria againwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. If you think you It would have been wonderful if, as a lad (orchild, letI's face it, d had access to a lass) interested in learning book such stuff, this book could well be the place to turnas ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin0192779230|title=GrowVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: 'Germs'Grow'', it said, ''A family guide seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to growing fruit and veg''make you ill. Why did it worry me? WellIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, it's OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a mere 48 pages clear and accessible introduction to the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and MORE!how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' I have weighty tomes which donexplains some of the trickiest concepts and you't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and vegll soon be familiar with bacteria, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Wellfungi, it doesn't - not at allprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1800464495|title=Rainforest Masks100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and MakeSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have been having ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: 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 the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childthis? I didn's face and you t! How about: ''seeMaths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' the tiger? Well,  I didn't know this is an even better result and it's either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in 3Dliteracy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. All But do we think the creatures aresame way about maths, as you would expectbeyond counting? I don't think we do, from the rainforest regions in part because so many of us are afraid of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsmaths. You get But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, redsimilar pre-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blueschool 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 strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled andfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -yellow macaw I've got loads to be doing) and the emerald tree boaothers will worry unnecessarily. Never heard Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of some of them? sleep is only likely to make it worse. Well, donAnd there't worry: s also the book is gently educationalfact that for far too long, with lack of sleep has been lauded as a paragraph telling you just enough about virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the creatureability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb1849767343|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There is a misfortune The title and format of this book might lead you to the modern world, in think that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellations, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting', either about responsibility - or it's patently obvious that a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying onenumbers journey. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – It isn't: it begins with setting up 's a tent in your back garden, and too many don't even get that chance, for want hymn of possession of onepraise to maths. Yes, if this book It's about why maths is only read once in the daytime so wonderful and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, how you meet it really will be a crying shamein everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1849767009|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comforts. Always This could have been, always will – and creature comforts donone of those books which 't involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, preaches to watch creatures, as far as Ithe choir'm concerned. Luckily, however, many : the only people who'll buy it are of another bent entirely – the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they find no problem avoid the hot-and-bothered person in getting out and the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about, taking whatever weather not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and wildlife can throw at them, small and spending time out of doors for the hell of itevery possible hue. This book is the first stage to that, Bodies with disabilities and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doormarkings. And even if itThey's your re fine. In fact, they''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>re wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1776572858|title=The Story of the CarHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. I canMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't think of many other subjects that inspired the young d get me to have a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelvesit. Most A couple of course days later I lost interest was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in with maturity. our house before) But the young child these days wonand I was told that it wouldn't be much different, for good or bad, and so they will like discussed any further as not want a book it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about broom-brooms for the shelf''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1526362759|title=In FocusDosh: CitiesHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close UpsWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, Crosshow to acquire more of it (nope -Sections robbing banks is out) and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here wewhat you can do with it when you're restricted ve managed to just tenget hold of it. Why? Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home You might want to 37 million peoplego into business, of all things. Yesbe a clever shopper, wea saver (you might even become an ''investor''re talking cities) and there might be something you really, and while this book tries ''really'' want to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territorybuy. WeThere're seeking s also the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety possibility of using to be had do good in the world's metropolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB178112938X|title= Minecraft Guide to CreativeSurvival in Space: An Official Minecraft Book From MojangThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= Minecraft isnIt't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop s fifty years since the Skeletons Apollo 13 mission was launched from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival mode there is also the Creative sidestories of all time. 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 ExplorationSurvival in Space: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenThe Apollo 13 Mission'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 for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>a brilliant retelling of what happened.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine 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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo Valerio1609809173|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=ChildrenEiffel'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 Coding: filled with fantastic facts Tower 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 of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYoung People|author=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookJill Jonnes|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded onto. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, but with awful fidelity)the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. In The French Republic laid out model villages from alltheir colonies, put on art shows, making a film was a big old faffdance performances, but trying food festivals and concerts to do anything fancy was almost impossiblestun the senses. There is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devicesAnd towering above it all, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodthe most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1848576536|title=Doodle DogsHumanatomy: Best in ShowHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Doodle DogsGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ' introduces a wide variety of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs'Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, all of which can be created very easily, and I don't see how you soon find that doodling could resist. This informative book provides a dog can be a lot more detailedwonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and interestingdigestion, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>right up to the DNA that makes who we are.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor MeredithLangford_Emily|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Having been banned from the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarksEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, I am not sure that I ever want you can count anything and there's no limit to think or make like an artisthow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artShe knew all about odd and even numbers. I see a rain dirty valleyThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the artists sells other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you Brigadooncounted in threes which she called ''threeven''. A lot (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to represent; be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funreally thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKBuckingham_Dawn|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. What a treat! As a child every question which I began with really did mean to just ''how do you spell...?glance'' would be answered with at ''EXACTLY as it says in The Little Book of the dictionaryDawn Chorus''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because pull of the font sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was small far too much to resist on a cold and difficult to readrather wet February morning. Fortunately those times have now changed I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and reference book for children are now much more invitinglistening to their song. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it's worth studying was just as good the ''How tosecond time around...'' section So, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyPankhurst_Women|title=First Science EncyclopediaFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and went on politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to senior school: I wasnread about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't alone in thistrue and there are plenty of women who, but it really was too late. Thankfullythroughout history, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageor created something never seen before. What's needed is a goodSo here, basic reference in this wonderful picture book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in from Kate Pankhurst, are the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British MuseumIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Origami, Poems and PicturesWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As 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 was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Gibbons
|title=The Beautiful Game
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red 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 of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Sewell
|title=The Big Bird Spot
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line ''Women in Sport'' is coming to one of us just before the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs Winter Olympics in South Korea in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff faceFebruary 2018. It was great fun celebrates a century and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewella half of the development of women's first book for childrensport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, ''The Big Bird Spot''covering sports as diverse as swimming, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptonfencing, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksriding, in amongst the guillemotsskating, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillsmuch more. Oh, Think of a sport and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher pioneering woman succeeding at it is very careless, because you're going to have to find them probably in every picturethis book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherRooney_Dino|title=Lift-the-Flap Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Colour: OceanSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you think about itLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, it's quite startling that oceans cover most through various different ages of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all speciesdinosaurs, apart from humans. We don't know we meet a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% variety of the area has been exploredcreatures, some of whom are very familiar but it is an area some I'd never heard of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity various dinosaurs are getting up to do a little exploration , with background noises, roars and squawks to colour their own pictures. accompany them! The flaps are book creates a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathdinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuMason_poo|title=100 Steps for ScienceThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in the Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objects. Point at anything and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied it. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedI know, I know, but if sometimes you are going really don't want to try and do this; at least make it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You'll like as not have seen a encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book before is brilliant! I sat and harangued read it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundred, by myself when the kids had gone to school and that's not a problem. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldnfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be there. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to try both funny (and find them all. And the learning is also here, silly) as well as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usbeing very interesting and educational. Make no mistake, this is Using a clever mixture of facts and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Parisfigures, photographs and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For onefunny cartoons, it seems they think you come away having sniggered a little at 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 vulture who poos on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, its own feet but also knowing a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one lot about different types of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skywardpoo, before his early demise – leaving the young womanwhy poos smell, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilotwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>
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