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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1839948493|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 45|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I'Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineersve never met one I didn't trust and I' takes a strictly hands-on approach ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to science sit down and devour. Then I'm going to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situationsgo back and read it properly. The book contains 25 projects And so it was with varying degrees ''A World of complexity Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricitymy four-legged friends. The book is designed with Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the younger scientist in mind, so there is accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toyslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden1529507987|title=We Travel So FarThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''The lead singer of Foreigner said Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I've travelled so far want to change this lonely lifebe cheered up.'' WellAfter a hard day, hethere's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creatures, who probably wouldnnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't call their life lonely, eitherre worth. Masses of animals gatherYou see, herd, school, and fly the value is in unison, what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and all make their migration to change their livesthe memories they hold. Some hide from No expense appears to be spared and the danger of winter storms, many seek the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano experts spend as much time and effort as is required to lay eggs in achieve the one place they know will keep them warmdesired result. It might seem to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's an approach that certainly worksre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=Having I was the Internet bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the home for existence of a child to learn from is all well and good'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but it won't replace an encyclopaediawas probably worse still. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having Not too much of a good thing – it is no use for long after the young mind to be exposed to every bit end of knowledge we may have amassed. NoWWII, you need someone authoritative enough I didn't so much want to come along and collate learn about the important bits, letting you learn just enough, British army's successes (and the key things you do need to knowoccasional failures, all from one place. This book doesnbut we didn't really term itself dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as an encyclopaedia, that has want to dispute what right the army had to be saidthere in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but its large format puts it on I regret that I lacked the shelf next maturity to them, and its colourful and educative mien proves itapproach 's a very close relative, at least of the modern kindproblem' politely. What it has decided to do is to structure the world into certain subjects, and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amassedI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsFritz 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=5

|summary=The animal kingdom is ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a diverse one, full of creatures that do sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all sorts of things. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets you need to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practiceknow about this brilliant book. For budding vet It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-tomuh-be animals are TAZ''), gives you a constant source of fascination definition and they will absorb as much knowledge as then includes the word in a sentence so that you can give themknow how it should be used. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting You also get an educational engaging and entertaining animal encylopedia isfrequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopediaI have recently discovered a great pleasure: it was I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' books, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it todaydaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. It didnI't just teach me facts - it taught me how ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to find out information the feeders for myself a quick snatch of some food and how to use an indexwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It opened my eyes to subjects would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, in size and content it was very similar had access to a book such as ''DK ChildrenThe Secret Life of Birds's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over . So – what is it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0192779230|title=Life on EarthVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was 'Germs' seems to have become a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nippercatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Since then In the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got first book in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightlooks to be a very promising new series, hearing OUP and so much more may Isabel Thomas have been like. But science will never stop, provided a clear and the next generation will need accessible introduction to be on board with the job world of discovering them, analysing germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of how the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownthinking has developed over time. As youThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist're which explains some of the kind of person to ask questions, trickiest concepts and you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer viruses – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionsand how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1800464495|title=Life on Earth100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=Out of all the things I wanted ''Babies seem to be as a childborn with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, an architect was not one being aware of themquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. Which '' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a shamestrong predictor of later achievement, perhaps – double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I might have had think most parents are aware that giving your children a few Prince Charlesgood start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes -friendly ideas under my beltgives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, and even if beyond counting? I hadndon't exactly progressed at think we do, 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 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 strange year: I might doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('buildwho needs sleep? -a-this-or-thatI' exercises you are sometimes forced ve got loads to undergo as an adultbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability Most people, from children to draw buildings, conceptualise towns and create model structures adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no abilitysleep is only likely to make it worse. But And there's also the fact that for the likes of Iggy Peckfar too long, the whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking lack of buildings sleep has been lauded as a virtue and how sleep made to improve on the ones he knowsseem like laziness. And soBeing up early, for working late has been praised and the duration of ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your engagement with these pages, will youCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun1849767343|title=My First Wild Activity BookCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=You sit down together as a family The title and ask your child what they would like format of this book might lead you to read from your bulging bookcase. Will they choose the timeless classic think that you yourself read as it's either about responsibility - or it's a child? Perhaps they will pluck basic 1-2-3 book for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nopethose just starting out on the numbers journey. Neither It isn't: it's a hymn of thesepraise to maths. All you will hear It's about why maths is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with so wonderful and how you, so best make meet it a worthwhile sticker activity bookin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki1849767009|title= Scientist Academy: Are You Ready For the Challenge?It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Kids seem This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to have an innate curiosity about the world around them. They are constantly asking choir': the only people who'How?'ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ' and 'know'Why?'that it' Curious kids s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and budding scientists are going -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to love the new bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'Scientist Academy're fine. In fact, they' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twistre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1776572858|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and RainbowsDon Bartlett (translator)

|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since Iasked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she've d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the colouringbasics, but the chances are in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that little will it wouldn't be kept on a long-term basis and discussed any further as it's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if the colouring produced 'wasn't something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate that itnice people talked about''s unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? . How much better to give a child something like I ''knew'' more, but was little ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbowswiser'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>. Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp1526362759|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild Chase|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorer's club they belong to, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim Dosh: How to it alone, and devil take the other one. What they don't know is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lionEarn It, crashing a hot air balloon one of them just so happened to have in his pocket… ThisSave It, thenSpend It, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kindGrow It, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGive It|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman|title=Hidden World: Forest|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimes, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistoryRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5

|summary=While it's always useful What a relief! A book about money, for a child to have access to an atlaschildren, so they know where they are and with clear explanations of what there it is in every other location, why it's equally important that they know ''when'' they arematters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what has happened at any other place in timeyou can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. ThatYour reasons for wanting money don's the ethos behind this t matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''Time Atlasinvestor'') and there might be something you really, which only has a few spreads, but takes us right back ''really'' want to prehistory, through buy. There's also the birth possibility of civilisation, and up using to today – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen do good in the futureworld. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland178112938X|title=Festivals Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and CelebrationsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Every day is a feast dayIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, if you follow but the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But story of that's just one religion, journey remains one way of thinking, one culture – the world is host to a whole lot more, and in every corner they have their own way greatest survival stories of celebratingall time. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide the visiting spirits of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice ''Survival in the return of spring, or the bounties of the summerSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission''s harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But the world has a ritual calendar of events such as these, and this is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can beretelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra Lawrence Kathleen Boucher and Emma TrithartSara Chadwick|title=Myths 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 Legendsfor 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=45

|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmBrash and elegant, when you think about it – not quite legendsophisticated, controversial and not just vibrant, the religions of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the dead civilisationsbest, but something like a mixture of the twoworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. Certainly some of the entries in this pleasant little read hit The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on legend – King Arthurart shows, dance performances, Robin Hood – but we also seemed food festivals and concerts to believe they were true, even if they didn't fit into any pattern of organised worshipstun the senses. But seeing as And towering above it is all, the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologies, it's vital for most popular and the young most hated monument to have some grounding in French accomplishment and daring – the subject, and this book is pretty good at providing suchEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1848576536|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and-Find Rescue MissionJem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=This is a horrific world. Monsters leer over all the mountain tops, there's a giant octopus in one building and a green giant's arms coming through the windows of another, and everywhere you look someone has lost something. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand to help. Yes, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on the controls of his flying machineGet under your own skin, he is able to visit all eleven zonespick your brains, and find the five things requested of him in each. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mayim Bialik|title= Girling Upgo inside your insides!''|rating= 4.5|genre= ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or what ''Girling upHumanatomy'' if invites you willto do and honestly, and what it means I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to transition curious children- from school girl the skeletal system to grown the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up, via to the DNA that hideous detour of teenage yearsmakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako ClulowLangford_Emily|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantEmily found words ''useful'', eh? but counting was what she loved best. WellObviously, personally, Iyou can count anything and there've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animals 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 even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the gentle giants of Africa and Indialist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact this list of odd numbers which I discovered was that they live occurred when you counted in herds headed by their threes which she called ''grandmothersthreeven''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the oldest female elephant is the one in charge odd numbers but sound as she knows where though they ought to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about people tooit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter CottrillBuckingham_Dawn|title= Terrible True Tales from The Little Book of the Tower of LondonDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The history Little Book of the infamous Tower Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of London is full the sounds of gore a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and deathrather wet February morning. Its rich history dates back to I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the eleventh century birds and since then it has played host listening to many famous figures, many of them illtheir song. Then - just because I could -fated prisoners. The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this time I went back and did it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, again and after centuries of watching over it was just as good the Tower they have their own version of history to tellsecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonPankhurst_Women|title=Cool PhysicsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If you aren't entirely sure A lot of history is about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, don't worry – it was only feels almost as though there were no women in 1678 that it happenedhistory at all, so you're not too far behind in physicslet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Brownian motionOf course, this isn't true and the gravitational constant being measured both date from there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before the Victorian era. So here, and all of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in are the world stories of some of physics is very much neededthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave ParkerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Prehistoric TimesWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=2.5

|summary=With the ability ''Women in Sport'' is coming to read us just before the news on our phones or watch Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the 24 hour news channelsdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, the days of the newspaper appear to be coming to an end. You could say that they are going to be extinctriding, skating, and much like the dinosaursmore. So, if newspapers are Think of a thing of the past sport and so are dinosaurs, a pioneering woman succeeding at it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out is probably in this was the case book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and viewsa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamRooney_Dino|title=Around the World Colouring BookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Colouring Lift the flap books are have progressed somewhat since I was 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 ''and'' to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusiveThis one comes with sounds! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of pictures to colour (with just dinosaurs, we meet a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction variety of four pages creatures, some of stickers. Youwhom are very familiar but some I'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickeringd never heard of before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=OhEach scene peels open, to be young and innocentlayer by layer, and showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to be full of questions. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me', or 'why is poo brown'with background noises, or 'what makes sweat smell'. You don't have roars and squawks to be accompany them! The book creates a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectivelydinosaur experience, no; it's down to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (orvery visual, let's face it, a lass) interested placing the dinosaurs in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turntheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben RaskinMason_poo|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and VegTony de Saulles

|summary=I worried when know, I looked at this book: ''Grow'', it saidknow, sometimes you really don''A family guide t want to growing fruit and vegencourage your children''. Why did it worry me? Wells poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it's a mere 48 pages by myself when the kids had gone to school and the cover says that found it includes ''Games, stickers and MOREfascinating!'' Who knew there was so much I have weighty tomes which dondidn't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going poo? The book manages to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Rutherford be both funny (and Tanya Batrak|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out silly) as well as being very interesting and Make|rating=4educational.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when Using a really talented face artist does a young child's face mixture of facts and you ''see'' the tiger? Wellfigures, this is an even better result photographs and it's in 3D. All the creatures arefunny cartoons, as you would expect, from come away having sniggered a little at the rainforest regions of the world, vulture who poos on its own feet but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get also knowing a green iguanalot about different types of poo, toucanwhy poos smell, 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 creaturewhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>