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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1839948493|title=50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that World of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Emily Hawkins Carlie Sorosiak and Lucy Letherland|title=Atlas of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=You might thinkIn the interests of full disclosure, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselvesI must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, that there was little to say about them that hadnI've never met one I didn't been said, trust and few new ways I've loved most of giving us information about them. Well, I would put it to you that this is a novel variantwish I felt the same about human beings. Over many jumbo spreadsSo, we get a different dinosaur in a different situation each timeany book about dogs, whether it be being born, being slain or learning I'm going to fly, sit down and the book gives us all the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs liveddevour. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, Then I'm going to go back and what read it properly. And so it was with the book hitting all corners ''A World of our current globeDogs'', it brings with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the world accidental owner of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry Bloom1529507987|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's becoming easier and easier my go-to programme when I want to spot books for the young about pirates – that surely is about the only career from the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about itbe cheered up. It must be After a combination of the derring-dohard day, the illegality, and of course the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one countrythere's attacks on anothernothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and reading about how treasures, slaves and other resources changed handsthe memories they hold. This volume, however, tries its best No expense appears to stand out, be spared and has adopted the equally prevalent concept of getting the reader to pore over large dioramas experts spend as much time and effort as is required to seek the small detail hidden in achieve the imagesdesired result. For once, though, thereRegular viewers know the experts and they's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind re all brilliant at explaining what itis they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston024162343X|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden|title=We Travel So FarSathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Foreigner said a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, Ididn've travelled t so far much want to change this lonely life.'' Well, helearn about the British army's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creaturessuccesses (and occasional failures, who probably wouldnbut we didn't call their life lonely, either. Masses of animals gather, herd, school, and fly dwell on those) in unison, and all make their migration what came to change their lives. Some hide from be called 'the danger of winter storms, many seek colonies' as want to dispute what right the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano army had to lay eggs be there in the one first place they know will keep them warm. It might seem Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's an approach that certainly works''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingFritz and Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Having We start with the Internet 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 home for a child empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to learn from is all well the synagogue choir and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaediaat a vocational school. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – it is no use the Sabbath preventing them for the young mind to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amassedusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. No, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate But this is the important bits, letting you learn time just enoughbefore the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the key things you do need to knowNazis out, all from one placeinvite them in with open arms. This book doesn't really term itself 'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as an encyclopaediain Germany, that has to be said, but its large format puts it on as did all the shelf next to them, and its colourful and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, at least round-ups of the modern kindJews. What it has decided These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to do is hear word of an evacuation to structure Britain or the world into certain subjectsUS, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to give us 13½ facts regarding every topiceach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And what a diverse range us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of topics it has amassed.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1913750353|title=My Encyclopedia Britannica's Word of Very Important Animalsthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5

|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 ChaseDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. What a relief! They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of the natural history explorer's club they belong towhat it is, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherwhy it matters, they are the kind how to fight tooth acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and claw to be the first to lay claim what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it alone, and devil take the other one. What they Your reasons for wanting money don't know is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowningmatter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, almost being eaten by be a lionclever shopper, crashing a hot air balloon one saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of them just so happened using to have do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in his pocket… This, then, is a fun Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and silly biology lesson – but thatStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's only fifty years since the best kindApollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Libby Walden Kathleen Boucher and Stephanie Fizer ColemanSara Chadwick|title=Hidden World: ForestNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Sometimes''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, less is moresetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. But a wood doesnDon't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups 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 adults too, but there is a grip on the life needful space in the forest, whether they can actually see it an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for the trees in real life or not…tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>0228818826}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari1609809173|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5

|summary=While it's always useful for a child to have access to an atlasBrash and elegant, sophisticated, so they know where they are controversial and what there is in every other locationvibrant, itthe 1889 World's equally important that they know ''when'' they areFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and what has happened at any other place in timethe beautiful from many countries and cultures. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, which only has a few spreadsdance performances, but takes us right back food festivals and concerts to prehistorystun the senses. And towering above it all, through the birth of civilisation, most popular and up the most hated monument to today French accomplishment and daring – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen in the futureEiffel Tower. 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 Newland1848576536|title=Festivals Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and CelebrationsJem Maybank|rating=5

|summary=Every day is a feast day''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But thatand go inside your insides!'' That's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – the world is host what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to a whole lot moredo and honestly, and in every corner they have their own way of celebratingI don't see how you could resist. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the visiting spirits of the deceased back human body to their postcurious children-life homes; some rejoice in from the return of spring, or skeletal system to the bounties of the summer'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 thesemuscular system via circulation, respiration and this is a brilliant book for digestion, right up to the young DNA that shows how diverse our celebrations can bemakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma TrithartLangford_Emily|title=Myths and LegendsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, when you think can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about it – not quite legend, odd and not just the religions even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the dead civilisationslist were even numbers, but something like a mixture the other half was odd and it was this list of the twoodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Certainly some of the entries in (Actually, this pleasant confused me a little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe bit at first as they were true, even if they didn't fit into any pattern re a subset of organised worship. But seeing the odd numbers but sound as it is though they ought to be a subset of the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologieseven numbers, but itall worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just 's vital for 'glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the young sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to have some grounding in resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the subject, birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and this book is pretty it was just as good at providing suchthe second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie GuerrivePankhurst_Women|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue MissionFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=This A lot of history is a horrific worldabout men. Monsters leer over Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the mountain tops, therelet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn's a giant octopus in one building t true and a green giant's arms coming through the windows there are plenty of anotherwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and everywhere you look someone has lost or created somethingnever seen before. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand to help. YesSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on are the controls stories of his flying machine, he is able to visit all eleven zones, and find the five things requested some of him in eachthem. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim BialikIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Girling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to grown up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantRachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Ten reasons ''Women in Sport'' is coming to love an elephantus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, eh? Wellfencing, personallyriding, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animalskating, the gentle giants and much more. Think of Africa a sport and India, but a pioneering woman succeeding at it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live is probably in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''this book somewhere. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant Each entry is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water a double- page spread with a brief biography and she knows her herd. She remembers about people tooa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter CottrillRooney_Dino|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of LondonDiscovering Dinosaurs|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=The history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this time 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, Anne Rooney and after centuries of watching over the Tower they have their own version of history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Hutton|title=Cool PhysicsSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=With Lift the ability to read the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channelsflap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, the days through various different ages of the newspaper appear to be coming to an end. You could say that they are going to be extinctdinosaurs, much like the dinosaurs. Sowe meet a variety of creatures, if newspapers some of whom are a thing very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the past and so various dinosaurs are dinosaursgetting up to, with background noises, it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case roars and ''squawks to accompany them! The Prehistoric Timesbook creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it'' covers several different eras on s very visual, placing the hunt for only the best news dinosaurs in their habitats and viewsgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamMason_poo|title=Around the World Colouring BookThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45

|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children to relax's poo jokes, develop manual dexterity but this book is brilliant! I sat and explore colour, but in read it by myself when the dash kids had gone to appeal to the child school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so many miss the opportunity much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be gently both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational ''and'' to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page Using a mixture of pictures to colour (with just facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little narrative to set at the scene) with the added attraction vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of four pages of stickerspoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>