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<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children'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've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety- Ignotofsy six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo ->she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.*[[image}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing 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 the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz 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. 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I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|leftgenre=Children's Non-Fiction|linksummary=httpsI have recently discovered a great pleasure://wwwI sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis.amazon An hour can pass without my noticing.co 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.uk/gp/product/1526360926 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?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=UTF8&tagVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=thebookbag'Germs' seems to have become a catch-21&linkCodeall word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world 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 vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=as2&camp1800464495|title=1634&creative100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=6738&creativeASINEmma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=1526360926]]''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''

===[[Women in SportDid you know this? I didn't! How about: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky]]===

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I didn''Women in Sport'' is coming to us 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, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at it is probably in t know this book somewhere. Each entry is either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a double page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. [[Women good start in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]]<br> <!literacy -reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - Rooney -->*[[image:Rooney_Dino.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938750?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938750]] ===[[Discovering Dinosaurs by Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was gives children a childsolid foundation when they start school. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, But do we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what think the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts same way about dinosaurs it's very visualmaths, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination. [[Discovering Dinosaurs by Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Mason -->*[[image:Mason_poo.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526303949beyond counting?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526303949]] ===[[The Poo That Animals Do by Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokesthink we do, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was in part because so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture many of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet, but also knowing a lot about different types us are afraid of poo, maths. But why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos. [[The Poo That Animals Do by Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Wood -->*[[image:Wood_Gothic.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1419725335are we?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1419725335]] ===[[American Gothic: The Life Most of Grant Wood by Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Art|Art]] Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly us use maths in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist daily life without realising and came to Europe to study from the greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew it follows that giving our children a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would similar pre-school grounding will be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in America at one time, and still the best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappingsjust as beneficial. [[American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood by Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald|Full Review]]<br>}} {{Frontpage<!-- Hill -->*[[image:Hill_Atlas.jpg|left|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783706961]]1406395404|title===[[The Atlas Awesome Power of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Sleep:Category:Children's NonHow Sleep Super-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Charges Your Teenage Brain There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one… [[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|Full Review]]author=Nicola Morgan<br> <!-- Murray -->*[[image:Murray_Dino.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783707925?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783707925]]5 ===[[Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum) by Lily Murray and Chris Wormell]]==|genre=Teens [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category2020 has been a strange year:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]][[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] One of the selling points for entities like the Jurassic Park films is I doubt anyone would argue with that they bring all the high-energy action of dinosaur life to the screen, in a way that is suitable, they would say, for children of all agesstatement. But there is a very different way Lots of going about things. This book does feature dinosaur-on-dinosaur combat, but only in presenting the most scientific of fossil remains. It delves into the evolutionary life of what we our routines have long loved to enjoy been completely dismantled and all the major scientific developments for the most inquisitive student, so the book is actually worth considering in a very different waysome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. I would say Some teens will dismiss this is ideal for as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'adults'' of all ages. [[Dinosaurium (Welcome ve got loads to the Museumbe doing) by Lily Murray and Chris Wormell|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tee -->*[[image:Tee_Grossothers will worry unnecessarily.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938289?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938289]] ===[[This Cookbook is Gross by Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Most people, [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] The misuse of language is a modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People just seem from children to pluck words out of adults will have the ether and pretend that they are the correct ones. Are the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez's 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the language is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nice, odd bad night but in appearance they are absolutely vile. [[This Cookbook worrying about your lack of sleep is Gross by Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Siwa -->*[[image:Siwa_Jojo.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1419728172?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1419728172]] ===[[Jojo's Guide only likely to the Sweet Life by Jojo Siwa]]=== [[image:5starmake it worse.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children And there's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] JoJo with also the Bow Bow fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has written been lauded as a Book Book! And without meaning virtue and sleep made to sound seem like my expectations were low, it was surprisingly goodlaziness. I say this because we know JoJo as the girl from Dance Moms with the outspoken mother (well Being up early, one of the outspoken mothers) who is known for her dancing working late has been praised and the big bows she wears, more than for her brains. And yet this book shows us another side, a side in which she is an articulate, insightful and intelligent young woman. [[Jojo's Guide ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to the Sweet Life by Jojo Siwa|Full Review]]<br><!-- Beattie -->*[[image:Beattie_Stupendousput on your CV.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784938467?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784938467]] ===[[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments in Stupendous Science. They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play. [[Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie and Sam Peet|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber1849767343|title= Optical IllusionsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I used to work as a library assistant The title and I remember arriving format of this book might lead you to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book, chattering excitedly andfor those just starting out on the numbers journey...squinting rather oddly. The book was called It isn't: it'Magic Eye's a hymn of praise to maths. It' s about why maths is so wonderful and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if how you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period meet it in the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusionslife.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou1849767009|title=Make and Play: NativityIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when theyThis could have been one of those books which 're presented with a tree preaches to decorate with a box of ornaments the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so the ones who ''know'' that it's Not To Be Played With) which shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is set up Somewhere Safecoughing fit to bust. WhereBut... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's the imagination, the creativity, the sense a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of pride in that? every possible hue. How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play Bodies with? disabilities and markings. ThatThey's exactly what re fine. In fact, they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play Nativity''re wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1776572858|title=50 Things How Do You Should Know About the VikingsMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=The Vikings have got It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a lot to own up tobook about it. A huge DNA study in 2014 couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood basics, in their veins – they clinical language which had never been insisting it used in our house before) and I was told that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English kingwouldn'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 t be discussed any further as the first lot, hence the nameit ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpostI ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. YesThankfully, 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 pagestimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Lucy Letherland1526362759|title=Atlas of Dinosaur AdventuresDosh: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=You might thinkWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little what you can do with it when you've managed to say about them that hadn't been said, and few new ways get hold of giving us information about themit. Well, I would put Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to you that this is a novel variantsome extent. Over many jumbo spreadsYou might want to go into business, we get be a different dinosaur in clever shopper, a different situation each time, whether it saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be being bornsomething you really, being slain or learning ''really'' want to fly, buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the book gives us all Apollo 13 mission was launched from the usual facts, not Kennedy Space Centre in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashionFlorida, but grouped by where these dinosaurs livedthe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, and Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Long Kathleen Boucher and Harry BloomSara Chadwick|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=It's becoming easier Brash and easier 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 it. It must be a combination of the derring-doelegant, the illegalitysophisticated, controversial and of course vibrant, the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one country1889 World's attacks on anotherFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and reading about how treasures, slaves the beautiful from many countries and other resources changed handscultures. This volumeThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, howeverdance performances, tries its best food festivals and concerts to stand outstun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and has adopted the equally prevalent concept of getting the reader most hated monument to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden in French accomplishment and daring – the images. For once, though, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind itEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1848576536|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating= 45 |genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Build ItGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach  That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to science to show do and honestly, I don't see how scientific ideas can be applied you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to realcurious children-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity from the skeletal system to demonstrate topics such as air travelthe muscular system via circulation, programmable machines, light, motion respiration and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in minddigestion, so there is a focus on right up to the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris MaddenLangford_Emily|title=We Travel So FarEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer of Foreigner said Emily found words ''useful'I've travelled so far to change this lonely life, but counting was what she loved best.'' WellObviously, heyou can count anything and there's gone nowhere in comparison no limit to many of these creatureshow far you can go, who probably wouldn't call their life lonely, eitherbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Masses Then she began counting in threes: half of animals gather, herd, schoolthe list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and fly it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in unison, and all make their migration to change their livesthrees which she called ''threeven''. Some hide from the danger of winter storms(Actually, many seek the food this confused me a little bit at first as they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up 're a volcano to lay eggs in subset of the one place odd numbers but sound as though they know will keep them warm. It might seem ought to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect subset of animal naturethe even numbers, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly worksall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=DKCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=Having the Internet in the home for a child to learn from A lot of history is all well about men. Kings and generals and inventors and goodpoliticians. Sometimes, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, feels almost as though there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is were no use for the women in history at all, let alone ones young mind girls might like to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amassedread about or regard as role models. NoOf course, you need someone authoritative enough to come along this isn't true and collate the important bitsthere are plenty of women who, letting you learn just enoughthroughout history, and the key have achieved amazing things you do need to knowor shown incredible bravery, all from one placeor created something never seen before. This So here, in this wonderful picture book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaediafrom Kate Pankhurst, that has to be said, but its large format puts it on are the shelf next to them, and its colourful and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, at least stories of the modern kind. 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 some of topics it has amassedthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKIgnotofsky_Sport|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=The animal kingdom ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us 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 oneas swimming, full of creatures that do all sorts of thingsfencing, riding, skating, and much more. The number Think of animals out there a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears probably in their practicethis book somewhere. For budding vetEach entry is a double-to-be animals are page spread with a constant source of fascination brief biography and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia isa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKRooney_Dino|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' bookschild. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but it was a treasure trove for me and some I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to find out information for myself , with background noises, roars and how squawks to use an index. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In formataccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, in size and content rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>

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