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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez 1839948493|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at the birth A World of powered flight. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDogs|author=Tracey Turner|title=Deadly Peril Carlie Sorosiak and How To Avoid ItLuisa Uribe

|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell youthat I're bitten by blue-ringed octopusm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, or if you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? ItI've never met one I didn's a dangerous world out there t trust and Tracey Turner has all I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the information that young explorerssame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, daredevils I'm going to sit down and factdevour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-hounds need six pages devoted entirely to knowmy 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1529507987|title=Philip Ardagh's The Repair Shop Craft Book of Howlers, Blunders |author=Walker Books and Random MistakerySonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=ThereI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's nought so queer as folkmy go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. From the idiot who broke into After a car hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without realising his name and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTVever mentioning what they're worth. You see, to the people who ordered someone value is in what these possessions are worth to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided own them and the original had been better, memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the people who dismissed The Beatles experts spend as much time and effort as never likely is required to make a name for themselvesachieve the desired result. We have long been a race of idiotsRegular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner024162343X|title=The Comic Strip Stolen History of Space|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us to a [[The Comic Strip History of I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History existence of a 'god'. Where was the World]]proof? In history lessons, and have now turned their attention to spaceit was probably worse still. They explain to children everything from Not too long after the origins end of the universeWWII, I didn't so much want to what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth learn about planets, right up to current space missions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Robinson|title=Bad Kids: the Worst-Behaved Children in History|rating=5|genre=ChildrenBritish army's Non-Fiction|summary=Isuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn'm starting t dwell on those) in what came to wonder about be called 'the type of person who would write such a horrible and terrifying book for children; itcolonies's as confusing as trying want to work out an age category for this book. ''Bad Kids'' is a gruesome look through history using dispute what right the ways children were punished through army had to be there in the ages as a central corefirst place. It runs Looking back, I still believe I was right through history from ancient Iraq, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished - but I regret that one) I lacked the maturity to approach 'the modern day and the use of ASBOs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010|rating=4|genre=Childrenproblem's Non-Fiction|summary=If you're looking for a book which is going to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no furtherpolitely. So long as you donI wish I't mind the groans of (mock) disgust, screams of horror and constantly being asked to look at (another) picture or listen as more is read to you then you should be absolutely fine. Following hot on the heels of last yeard had Sathnam Sanghera's success ''Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010'Stolen History' is packed full of bizarre facts (some of which you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't), fiends and freaks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie NortonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Bumper Book of BraveryFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The Bumper Book We start with the pair of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people in wars, to explorers enduring amazing hardships, through spies brothers Fritz and revolutionariesKurt, by way of sportsmen and womentheir muckers, even doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Henry's House is extraordinary: it's full of fossilsdo – kicking things around the empty market place, footprintshelping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and even real dinosaursat a vocational school. Jaggers Kurt has to make sure the caretaker lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, workmanlike as Henry sees for himself a light switch. But this is the time just what amazing creatures they were, and learns before the differences between the various types.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (well, for me certainly) the word Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler'hero' summons an image of capess will, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written instead of having a book about the other kind – national vote to keep the every day heroes from historyNazis out, who achieve incredible things without the aid of superpowersinvite them in with open arms.  From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, ''The Dangerous Book of HeroesKristallnacht'' covers a comprehensive range happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of characters from Jews. These in their turn leave the history younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the British Empire. From campaigners for political changeUS, while Fritz and his father are, brilliant battle strategists unknown initially to daring explorerseach other, each and every one of packed off on the people in this book lived brilliant lives same train to Buchenwald and changed the world foreverstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket1913750353|title=Ripping Things to DoBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=Right from ''Britannica's Word of the very moment I opened the envelope Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book was delivered in. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of a book, and tells you how right I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothersto pronounce it (' 'raz-muh-TAZ'Dangerous Book for Boys'' series), this book has gives you a very different ethos, even though definition and then includes the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making word in a sentence so that you know how it bear comparisonshould be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Cullen and Simon Rickerty0711266204|title=Peas!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The farmer sows the seed from which Penelope and Pete Pea grow. They're picked, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step Secret Life of their journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBirds|author=Nicola Davies Moira Butterfield and Neal Layton|title=What's Eating You?Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Did you know that there are more than 430 types I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of parasites that birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what it pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was like for me reading What's Eating You? more knowledgeable. Itwould have been wonderful if, as a child, I's d had access to a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans and other animals - that any science-loving child will lovebook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk> So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Smash! Smash! Truck|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Smash! Smash! Truck looks at the process Invisible World of recycling glass, taking in a brief look at the Big Bang, atoms and the water cycle, to explain why recycling is a good idea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Leo Hickman |title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Isabel Thomas

|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much in Britain? What 'Germs' seems to have become a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to sunbathe make you ill. In the first book in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here what looks to answer all these questions and more in his be a very promising new bookseries, ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cylin Busby OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and John Busby|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go accessible introduction to the Harvard Medical School world of germs. We get an informed look at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,'' ''though I suspect how people originally thought about diseases and what they are mostly interested in his headthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time... His was in an interesting case - the lower half of his jaw 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''was removed when he was shot in the head ll soon be familiar with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in halfbacteria, fungi, his teeth protists and viruses – and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front of his facehow we should protect ourselves.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Robins 1800464495|title=Can I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sources, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children 100 Ways in different parts of Europe. The simplicity 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a succinct, linear timeline Love of WW2.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaths|author=Anthony Adolph|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree ExplorerEmma Smith

|summary=A fascination ''Babies seem to be born with family history seems more than just a passing fadan amazing number sense: for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and understanding shapes in a mobile (both geographically the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and socially) comprehending addition and globalised society, people unable to answer a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity in pursuing an answer to subtraction at nine months old.'where do I come from?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Various|title=Bob's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bob the Builder and his crew of machines live in the glorious Sunflower Valley and enjoy their work. However, as well as building new developments, they like to look after the world around them. Their motto is ''Reduce,'' Did you know this? I didn'' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This book aims to introduce the youngest of children to the benefits of recycling, how to recycle and look after the world around them using characters that are familiar and in a way that teaches, not preaches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524657X</amazonuk>}}t! How about:

{{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that ''Maths ability on entry to school is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother strong predictor of three teenage daughterslater achievement, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one double that of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesliteracy skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>}}''

I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't 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.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips1406395404|title=Planet In PerilThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Saving the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with children's authors at the forefront that statement. Lots of the chargeour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the sort odd bad night but worrying about your lack of information which would be given sleep is only likely to an adult and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedmake it worse. This And there''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is s also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a breath of fresh airvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. WellBeing up early, apart, that is, from when working late has been praised and the loo gets a ability to survive on little too well usedsleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Blackest Hole in Space1849767343|author=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their tea.|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Stewart Ross|title=Moon: Science, History, and MysteryMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars The title and still using computers format of this book might lead you to think that take up a whole room: futurologists have it's either about responsibility - or it's a talent basic 1-2-3 book for getting things spectacularly wrong, but their predictions express those just starting out on the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditionsnumbers journey. It isn't: we dream it's a hymn of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moonpraise to maths. It's hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melanie Walsh1849767009|title=10 Things I Can Do To Help My WorldIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45

|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 's never preaches to early to start making a difference. Melanie Walshthe choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's book introduces young children to simple things shameful will avoid it like they can do to change avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the world, from switching lights off, supermarket who is coughing fit to turning off the taps when brushing your teethbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. What It's morea celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, the book is made from 100% recycled materials, making buying it an 11th thing you can do to help your worldthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320293</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf Heimann1776572858|title=DragonmaziaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Dragonmazia'' is packed to d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the rafters with detailedbasics, engaging, varied in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and fascinating mazes. ThereI was told that it wouldn's a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting samey: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragons, and a few cuddly dragons too. Each page generally has one big maze, with a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around t be discussed any further as it''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. It doesn I ''knew''t have an overall narrativemore, but therewas little ''wiser''s plenty of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We Do1526362759|title=Teach Your Granny To TextDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I loved this What a relief! A book. I loved the positive tone about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of this book. It it (nope - robbing banks is just so packed full out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of greatit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, interactive ideas for living be a better lifeclever shopper, that I a saver (you might even passed it onto become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to my householdbuy. There's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots also the possibility of ideas using to do good in it that capture the spirit of these new-austerity times, and took a note of a few for his next council meetingworld. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Comic Strip History of the WorldApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''The Comic Strip History of s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the World'' isKennedy Space Centre in Florida, as you might expect, a comic strip history but the story of that journey remains one of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period greatest survival stories of history summed up in a page or twoall time. It ''s very much a potted history Survival in the vein of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. ItSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission''s is a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been beforebrilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dugald SteerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=SpyologyNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to write this manual show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of Spyology, otherwise known as Tradecraft, in the course of his last missionsuch books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front of me turned up at the headquarters of MI6 there is a needful space in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEX. It's recently become available increasingly technological world accessible to the public under the fifty year ruleyounger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>0228818826}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow 1609809173|title=Voyage Across The CosmosEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=In Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the course of a year I see some wonderful books but this must rank as one of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey to best, the edge of space worst and time'' the reader is off beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on a journey of a hundred art shows, dance performances, food festivals and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earthconcerts to stun the senses. On And towering above it all, the way you'll see some breathtaking sights most popular and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the cosmosEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion Bataille1848576536|title=Abc 3dHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its Get under your own. E morphs into Fskin, V mirrors itself and becomes Wpick your brains, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}}go inside your insides!''

{{newreview|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus Pocus|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary=what ''Hocus PocusHumanatomy'' is part biography of the greatest magicians of all timeinvites you to do and honestly, part fictional tale of I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the author meeting them as they come alive human body to curious children- from his postersthe skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and part magic instruction manual. All the parts foster an interest in magicdigestion, and act as an inspiration right up to the next generation of magiciansDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard ScarryLangford_Emily|title=What Do People Do All Day?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As its title suggests, the book is about what people do all day. Since different people all do different things, the book covers a lot of topics. The first section looks at Busy Town itself along the high street. This book truly shines with some of the best examples of ScarryEmily's illustrations, as we see the town above ground, and below ground in intricate detail. We see the men digging tunnels and the underground pipes, street cleaners at work, and peeks into the bank and various shops as well as the fire department, doctor, dentist, and so on. All are clearly labelled and much fun is to be had after reading the narrative, looking at and discussing all the marvellous detail. As the book progresses, we get to see what Mummy does all day at home, what the farmer does, the door to door salesman, the policeman, the fireman, the blacksmith, the postmen, the ferry workers, and so on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007189508</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNumbers|author=Anne Morddel|title=The Big Field: A Teachers' GuideJoss Langford

|summary=This teachersEmily found words ' guide is designed to accompany [[The Big Field: A Child'useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's Year Under the Southern Cross by Anne Morddel]]no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. The inspiration for the book came She knew all about when odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the author worked as a librarian at a school in list were even numbers, but the state other half was odd and it was this list of Paranã odd numbers which occurred when you counted in Brazilthrees which she called ''threeven''. In trying to find (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a book about subset of the seasons (and how the natural world around them changed) for children in the five odd numbers but sound as though they ought to eleven age group she realised that none existed for be a subset of the southern hemisphere. She set even numbers, but it all worked out to remedy the situationwell when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186417</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne MorddelBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Big Field: A Child's Year Under Little Book of the Southern CrossDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''My Mama and Papa work hard in the city and theyglance''re always busy. Thatat 's why we live on Granny's farm, Chloe and Baby and me.The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''  We never know but the name, or gender pull of the narrator, but it's sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a gentle, sensitive voice which guides us through the seasonscold and rather wet February morning. The farm – Southern Cross - has been in the family for at least three generations, as Granny's grandfather burned I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the trees in the big field birds and planted coffee and soybeanslistening to their song. Her father Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the same but Granny says that she keeps forgetting to plough – but she says it with a smilesecond time around. She has something else in mind for the field.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186409</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynn Cullen and Amy YoungPankhurst_Women|title=Moi and Marie AntoinetteFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=Marie Antoinette A lot of history is about men. Kings and her pug doggenerals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, Sebastienit feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, had an idyllic life in her native Austrialet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. She was the fifteenth child Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of the Empresswomen who, whothroughout history, in the traditions of the timehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, used her children to make marriages which would strengthen her own positionor created something never seen before. Marie Antoinette was told at the age of thirteen that she was to marry a Prince – the grandson of the King of France. Sebastien narrates So here, in this charming tale of Marie Antoinette's journey to Francewonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, her marriage, life at Versailles and are the birth stories of her daughter Therese. It stops mercifully short some of her executionthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759774X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clarke Hutton Ignotofsky_Sport|title=A Picture History of Great Discoveries|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As soon as I opened this book I was taken back Women in time by about half a century. In a frieze around my classroom walls were lithographs by Clarke Hutton and they're all Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to be founds here in this book first published in 1954. Unusually it's the illustrator who is given credit for the book with Mabel George's text only being acknowledged on the title page of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199118353</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWin|author=Richard Walker |title=The Human MachineRachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=In my youth (yes, alright – but it was quite some time ago) books for children about ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the human body were written Winter Olympics in South Korea in text-book style with some parts being obviously well-thumbed February 2018. It celebrates a century and others largely ignored other than a half of the development of women's sport by those who would be going on to do A level biologylooking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. As Think of a result many people of my generation are ignorant about how their body really works – or only learn about sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it when something goes wrongis probably in this book somewhere. ''The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body'' Each entry is a welcome look at the subject written in double-page spread with a chatty and informal style brief biography and in a format familiar to the target age group of eight plusstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199116776</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford |title=Outstanding Olympics|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With 2008 being the year of the Beijing Olympics an authoritative book for children on the Olympic movement is opportune. The fact this one is written by Clive Gifford – sports fanatic and award-winning children's writer – is a real bonus. Gifford has a chatty style which pulls you in from page one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199117764</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ernie Malik Rooney_Dino|title=Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion|rating=3|genre=Entertainment|summary=Who would have thought that Prague in the Czech Republic could so convincingly masquerade as 1940s London, complete with authentic Routemaster buses and the lions of Trafalgar Square? This sleight of hand and many more are revealed in the Official Movie Companion to the forthcoming CS Lewis adaptation, ''Prince Caspian''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270593</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Richard Horne and Tracey Turner|title=101 Things You Wish You'd Invented Anne Rooney and Some You Wish No One Had Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Gearing up for Lift the long school summer holidays yet? If not, you probably should be. It always pays to plan in advance. Bored children aren't flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a pretty sightchild. You could certainly prepare yourself well This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by taking layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a look at 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 the latest in Bloomsburyvarious 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 about dinosaurs it's 101 Things To Do series. This one is Things You Wish You'd Invented very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and it entertained me for a good few hoursgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747591989</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike FlynnMason_poo|title=The Ultimate Survival Guide For BoysPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=3.5

|summary=A potentially interesting book about how I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to survive in the wilderness or encourage your back gardenchildren's poo jokes, which unfortunately misses but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the mark by not kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being enough of one thing or the othervery interesting and educational. It's worth Using a readmixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, but you wouldn't take it come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a dangerous camping trip to the back gardenlot about different types of poo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230700519</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Georgina Phillips|title=Ouch! Extreme Feats of Human Endurance|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Everything from Shackleton to Ellen MacArthur, by way of the Japanese word for fried rice-field grasshopper, and 32 hour long after dinner speeches. ''Ouch!'' contains fascinating trivia Move on every page that children will love to repeat back to you at length.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454056</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today|author=Dougal Dixon|genre=[[Newest Children's Non-Fiction|rating=4.5|summary=As a child and even during my daughter's childhood, dinosaurs had not really gripped the public consciousness in the way that they have done over the last decade or so. This was useful in reviewing If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today as it meant that I approached the book with interest Rhymes and curiosity but without being burdened by a great deal of prior knowledge. I was impressed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846966264</amazonuk>}}Verse Reviews]]