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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik1839948493|title= Girling UpA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagersIn the interests of full disclosure, this book focuses on growing up as I must tell you that I'm a girlsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, or I've never met one I didn'Girling upt trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I' if you will, m going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and what read it properly. And so it means was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of teenage yearsan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow1529507987|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Ten reasons I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to love an elephant, eh? be cheered up. Well, personallyAfter a hard day, Ithere've never needed ten reasons as s nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they've always been my favourite large animalre worth. You see, the gentle giants of Africa and India, but it was good value is in what these possessions are worth to find out more about the people who own them. Perhaps and the most surprising fact which I discovered was that memories they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''hold. Female elephants No expense appears to be spared and their calves stay together the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the oldest female elephant is desired result. Regular viewers know the one in charge as she knows where to find food experts and water - and she knows her herdthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill024162343X|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of LondonStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the infamous Tower existence of London is full of gore and deatha 'god'. Its rich Where was the proof? In history dates back to the eleventh century and since then lessons, it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisonerswas probably worse still. The history Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the Tower is told within this bookBritish army's pagessuccesses (and occasional failures, only this time itbut we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 's told by the ravens that live there. They are colonies' as want to dispute what right the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due army had to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removedthere in the first place. Looking back, and after centuries of watching over I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the Tower they have their own version of history maturity to tellapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah HuttonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Cool PhysicsFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=If you arenWe 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't entirely sure about each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a phrase such as 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. 'Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'Kristallnacht', don't worry – it was only happened in Vienna just as much as in 1678 that it happenedGermany, so you're not too far behind in physicsas did all the round-ups of Jews. Brownian motion, 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 gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian eraUS, while Fritz and all of these three things his father are , unknown initially to each other, packed off on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the world adult variant of physics is very much needed.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker1913750353|title=The Prehistoric TimesBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|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 ''Britannica's Word of the newspaper appear Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to be coming Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to an endknow about this brilliant book. You could say that they are going It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to be extinctpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), much like gives you a definition and then includes the dinosaurs. So, if newspapers are word in a thing of the past and sentence so are dinosaurs, that you know how it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. Turns out this was the case and I don't think I'The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only ve ever encountered a word which uses the best news and views.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Thomas FlinthamMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Around the Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World Colouring Bookof Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Colouring books are 'Germs' seems to have become a useful way for children catch-all word to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in cover anything unpleasant which has the dash to appeal potential to make you ill. In the child so many miss the opportunity first book in what looks to be gently educational ''a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and'' to still appeal accessible introduction to the youngworld of germs. 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 two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: itvocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist's got page upon page which explains some of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickers. Youtrickiest concepts and you'll see grey shapes - soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald1800464495|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Oh, ''Babies seem to be young 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 innocent, comprehending addition and to be full of questionssubtraction at nine months old. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me', or  Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''why Maths ability on entry to school is poo brown'a strong predictor of later achievement, or double that of literacy skills.'what makes sweat smell'. You don I didn't have to be 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 kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the answers – respectivelysame way about maths, no; it's down to dead bacteria; and it doesnbeyond counting? I don't – it's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (orwe do, let's face in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it, follows that giving our children a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well similar pre-school grounding will be the place to turnjust as beneficial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin1406395404|title=GrowThe Awesome Power of Sleep: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I worried when I looked at 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 book: as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'Grow'', it said, ''A family guide ve got loads to growing fruit be doing) and veg''others will worry unnecessarily. Why did 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 worry me? worse. Well, itAnd there's a mere 48 pages and also the cover says fact that it includes ''Gamesfor far too long, stickers lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and MORE!'' sleep made to seem like laziness. I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit Being up early, working late has been praised and veg, so wasn't this going the ability to fall a survive on little short? Well, it doesn't - not at allsleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1849767343|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and MakeCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|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.
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{{newreview
|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb
|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's Kit
|rating=4
|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=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|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 PicturesWomen in Sport'' and I was transported is coming to Japanus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. As It celebrates a century and a half of the title suggests wedevelopment of women're s sport by looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art fifty of paper foldingits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, haiku poetry and paintingmuch more. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest Think of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat sport and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is pioneering woman succeeding at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Gibbons|title=The Beautiful Game|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Football it is all about its colours. And even if I write probably 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 wearthis book somewhere. But Each entry 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 – double-page spread with a brief biography 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>striking portrait.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt SewellRooney_Dino|title=The Big Bird SpotDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Recently Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I stood on was 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 dayschild. Finally, I found This onecomes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, 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 Sewell's first book for childrenvarious different ages of dinosaurs, ''The Big Bird Spot''we meet a variety of creatures, shows some cliffs of whom are very like those at Bempton, familiar but this time yousome I're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, in amongst showing you what the guillemotsvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, puffinswith background noises, herring gulls roars and razorbills. Ohsquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, and yourather than just being facts about dinosaurs it're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is s very carelessvisual, because you're going to have to find them placing the dinosaurs in every picturetheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherMason_poo|title=Lift-the-Flap The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Colour: OceanTony de Saulles|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you think about itI know, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all speciesI know, apart from humans. We sometimes you really don't know a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% of the area has been exploredwant to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it is an area of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-by myself when the-Flap kids had gone to school and Colour: Oceanfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn'' children t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as young well as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration being very interesting and to colour their own pictureseducational. The flaps are Using a stroke mixture of genius: when we look facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the sea we see little more than the movement of the water, vulture who poos on its own feet but how also knowing a lot about different it would be if you could see a little types of what is going on underneathpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>
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