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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter1839948493|title=Dewey: The True Story of a A World-famous Library Cat|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This heart-warming book tells the wonderful true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuitous event that occurred one cold winter morning. Vicki Myron, the chief librarian at Spencer Library in Iowa, heard some very strange noises coming from the book drop box that borrowers used in order to return their books when the library was closed. On opening the box she discovered a small, dirty, shivering kitten and her heart melted. As a consequence, the kitten, which was soon to be named Dewey, was adopted and became the official library cat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDogs|author=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson|title=Have You Started Yet?: You Carlie Sorosiak and your period: getting the facts straightLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s In the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a problemsucker for dogs. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and it’s obviously better that it’s I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the firmer rather than the lattersame about human beings. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and reassuring manner devour. Then I'm going to go back and in a form which is easily readable read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to girls my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about nine years old and abovedogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner1529507987|title=Dreadful FatesThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Imagine the delight you get, as a book reviewer, I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when you chance upon I want to be cheered up. After a title that stands outhard day, by filling a nice handy gap in the market youthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'd never even noticedre worth. You see, and doing it so well you want the value is in what these possessions are worth to alert as many the people as possiblewho own them and the memories they hold. This is such a No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time, Dreadful Fates is such a book, and effort as for is required to achieve the gap… desired result. This book hits upon Regular viewers know the darker corners of experts and they're all those copious brilliant at explaining what it is they'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does it all for the under-thirteen audiencere doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt024162343X|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of families, it is that books are includeda 'god'. It is evident from Where was the detailsproof? In history lessons, trivia and facts here that you don’t need a father, a mother, or siblingsit was probably worse still. You might even have several spreads Not too long after the end of half- and step-siblingsWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and copious parents hereoccasional 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 and everywherein the first place. You might get to have a nanny, a cohort of family helpersLooking back, I still believe I was right - but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themregret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Fritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It is quite certain We start with the reader pair of this book will not be a bed testerbrothers 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, however broad helping the smile it carries as neighbours, being dutiful when it suggests anyone can get comes to the employment they dream aftersynagogue choir and at a vocational school. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for some ancient civilisation, using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a slavelight switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a drudgenational vote to keep the Nazis out, or a worker invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in a Communist collective farmGermany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. But it is definitely These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an eye-opener evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pages. this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1913750353|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=Cities don’t just spring up around us. They have taken thousands ''Britannica's Word of years of civilisation the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to form, however surprising Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that might appear at timesyou need to know about this brilliant book. Conversely It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', there are some who are just a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centuriestells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), and others that have been planned over gives you a drawing board definition and become a capital city then includes the word in a decade-long instantsentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. All are within these tidy 48 pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt0711266204|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Where can you find a welter of trivia and facts about transport from the ages, from the first use of Shanks’s pony, to the latest holidays to the edge of space? What has so much detail it can fit in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? Where can the adult browsing their child’s non-fiction library find a 'Glamorous Glennis' going 'kinda screwy' and see how it refers to the breaking The Secret Life of the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pages, for one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBirds|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature Moira Butterfield and StuffVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and stuff? Unsurprisinglywatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, this is which pop to the book feeders for you. If you're interested a quick snatch of some food and who settles in [http://wwwfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space It would have been wonderful if, black holes and stuff]as a child, then Glenn Murphy has also written I'd had access to a sister book in the such as ''Science: Sorted!The Secret Life of Birds'' series packed full of all the information you'd want to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why So – what is Snot Greenit?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Dryburgh0192779230|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture Invisible World of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Gary Blackwood|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908Isabel Thomas

|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadnGerms't yet brought cars seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the massespotential to make you ill. The pioneers of In the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just first book in what the car could dolooks to be a very promising new series, by driving right round OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the worldof germs. Except We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they didn't want to be pioneers. One of thought caused them and how the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for menthinking has developed over time. We wished to The vocabulary can be madmen, not pioneers.confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' Isn't that about which explains some of the best quote trickiest concepts and you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies1800464495|title=Gaia Warriors100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=The best way to read this book is to treat it like a magazine: flip the pages and dip in. I can guarantee that you will find something to catch your eye. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate'', foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array of different typefaces and page colours make the book very easy Babies seem to browse, and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward way. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as for older children or teen readers, but as born with an informative read for adults as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Blackwood|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and Ciphers|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the spies with their secret worldwomb, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them and see what they're hiding. It's a combination aware of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are coolquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, so there) and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history of codes comprehending addition and ciphers, looking subtraction at their creation, the stories behind them, and how to crack themnine months old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crowther|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of Automobiles|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Robert Crowther tells the story of the car, from Cugnot's steam engine, Trevithick's road locomotive and Benz's Motorwagen, right through to the record-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty of pop-ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and it's packed with detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Various|title=Hello Kitty Guide to Life|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Hello Kitty'' is a huge worldwide phenomenon with a whole heap of related merchandise featuring the cute cartoon cat in dresses and ribbons. It appeals to girls and women of many ages, but Did you know this new hardback book ''Hello Kitty – Guide to Life'' is aimed at the brand? I didn's younger fans, probably around 6 to 14 year olds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>}}t! How about:

{{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's Maths ability on entry to school is a real tinkererstrong predictor of later achievement, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with double that word - he's around at the birth of powered flightliteracy skills. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</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=Tracey Turner1406395404|title=Deadly Peril and The Awesome Power of Sleep: How To Avoid ItSleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if you're bitten by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? It's 2020 has been a dangerous world out there and Tracey Turner has all the information strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that young explorers, daredevils and fact-hounds need to know.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folkstatement. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date Lots of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided the original had our routines have been better, completely dismantled and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselvessome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of Space|rating=5|genre=ChildrenSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s Nonwho needs sleep? -Fiction|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us I've got loads to a [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg be doing) and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of the World]]others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, and have now turned their attention to space. They explain to from children everything from the origins of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought of adults will have the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth odd bad night but worrying 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=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm starting to wonder about the type your lack of person who would write such a horrible and terrifying book for children; it's as confusing as trying to work out an age category for this book. ''Bad Kids'' sleep is a gruesome look through history using the ways children were punished through the ages as a central core. It runs right through history from ancient Iraq, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) likely to the modern day and the use of ASBOsmake it worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley And there's Believe It or Not 2010|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you're looking also the fact that for a book which is going to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no further. So far too long as you don't mind the groans of (mock) disgust, screams lack of horror sleep has been lauded as a virtue and constantly being asked to look at (another) picture or listen as more is read sleep made to you then you should be absolutely fineseem like laziness. Following hot on the heels of last year's success ''Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010'' is packed full of bizarre facts (some of which you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't)Being up early, fiends working late has been praised and freaks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Norton|title=The Bumper Book of Bravery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Bumper Book of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people in wars, the ability to explorers enduring amazing hardships, through spies and revolutionaries, by way of sportsmen and women, even survive on little sleep has almost become something to brave animalsput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon1849767343|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=HenryThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's House is extraordinary: either about responsibility - or it's full of fossils, footprints, and even real dinosaurs. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees a basic 1-2-3 book for himself those just what amazing creatures they were, and learns starting out on the differences between the various typesnumbers journey.|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 It isn'herot: it' summons an image of capes, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written s a book about the other kind – the every day heroes from history, who achieve incredible things without the aid hymn of superpowerspraise to maths.  From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, It''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empire. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorers, each s about why maths is so wonderful and every one of the people how you meet it in this book lived brilliant lives and changed the world forevereveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket1849767009|title=Ripping Things It Isn't Rude to Dobe Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|summary=The farmer sows This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the seed from which Penelope only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to 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 Pete Pea growmarkings. They're pickedfine. In fact, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journeythey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton1776572858|title=What's Eating How Do YouMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Did you know that there are It's more than 430 types of parasites sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what she'd get me a book about it . A couple of days later I was like for me reading What's Eating You? It's handed a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and other animals - I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any science-loving child will lovefurther as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts1526362759|title=The Smash! Smash! TruckDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35

|summary=The SmashWhat a relief! Smash! Truck looks at the process A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of recycling glassit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, taking in be a brief look at the Big Bangclever shopper, atoms a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the water cycle, possibility of using to explain why recycling is a do good ideain the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman 178112938X|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all these questions and more in his new book, time. ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cylin Busby Kathleen Boucher and John BusbySara Chadwick|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter MemoirNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go 9 Ways to the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,Empower Tweens'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His was in an interesting case is a self- the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot in the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in halfhelp book for tweens, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front of his facesetting out to show them vital #lifeskills.Don''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can t groan! 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 in different parts of Europe. The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it know there is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline market glut of WW2.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Adolph|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Nonsuch books for we grown-Fiction|summary=A fascination with family history seems more than just a passing fad: ups and for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and in a mobile (both geographically and socially) and globalised societyyoung adults too, people unable to answer but there is a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity needful space in pursuing an answer increasingly technological world accessible to '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 younger 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,'' '' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This book aims to introduce the youngest of younger 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>}} {{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 is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesfor material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>0228818826}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips1609809173|title=Planet In PerilEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|summary=Saving Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump with children1889 World's authors at Fair in Paris encompassed the forefront of best, the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of worst and the sort of information which would be given to an adult beautiful from many countries and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedcultures. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath of fresh air. WellThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, apartput on art shows, that isdance performances, from when food festivals and concerts to stun the loo gets a little too well usedsenses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Blackest Hole in Space|author=Penny Little And towering above it all, the most popular and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie the most hated monument to French accomplishment 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 teadaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart Ross1848576536|title=MoonHumanatomy: Science, History, How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and MysteryJem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. Itgo inside your insides!''s hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Melanie Walsh|title=10 Things I Can Do To Help My World|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=ItThat's never what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to early to start making a differencedo and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. Melanie Walsh's This informative book introduces young provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children - from the skeletal system to simple things they can do to change the worldmuscular system via circulation, from switching lights offrespiration and digestion, right up to turning off the taps when brushing your teeth. What's more, the book is made from 100% recycled materials, making buying it an 11th thing you can do to help your worldDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320293</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf HeimannLangford_Emily|title=DragonmaziaEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Emily found words ''Dragonmaziauseful'' is packed to the rafters with detailed, engagingbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, varied you can count anything and fascinating mazes. Therethere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting sameystep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragonshalf of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and a few cuddly dragons tooit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Each page generally has one big maze (Actually, with this confused me a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around it. It doesnlittle bit at first as they't have an overall narrative, re a subset of the odd numbers but there's plenty sound as though they ought to be a subset of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselveseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We DoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Teach Your Granny To TextThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I loved this bookreally 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 loved spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the positive tone of this bookbirds and listening to their song. It is Then - just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that because I could - I even passed went back and did it onto to my household's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots of ideas in all again and it that capture was just as good the spirit of these new-austerity timessecond time around. So, and took a note of a few for his next council meeting. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>what do you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of the World|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=''The Comic Strip History A lot of the World'' history isabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as you though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might expectlike to read about or regard as role models. Of course, a comic strip history this isn't true and there are plenty of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present daywomen who, with each period of throughout history summed up in a page , have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or twocreated something never seen before. It's very much a potted history So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the vein stories of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been beforesome of them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dugald SteerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=SpyologyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set out ''Women in Sport'' is coming to write this manual 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 Spyologyits highest achievers, otherwise known covering sports as Tradecraftdiverse as swimming, in the course of his last missionfencing, riding, skating, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was and much more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front Think of me turned up a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at the headquarters of MI6 it is probably 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 CODEXthis book somewhere. It's recently become available to the public under the fifty year ruleEach entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow Rooney_Dino|title=Voyage Across The CosmosDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=In Lift the course flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a year I see variety of creatures, some wonderful books of whom are very familiar but this must rank as one some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey various dinosaurs are getting up to the edge of space , with background noises, roars and time'squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it' s very visual, placing the reader is off on a journey of a hundred dinosaurs in their habitats and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earth. On the way you'll see some breathtaking sights and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of the cosmosgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion BatailleMason_poo|title=Abc 3d|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|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 own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus PocusMason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children'Hocus Pocus'' s poo jokes, but this book is part biography of brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them 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 they come alive from his posters, being very interesting and part magic instruction manualeducational. All the parts foster an interest in magicUsing a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and act as an inspiration to funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the next generation vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of magicianspoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|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 Scarry'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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Morddel|title=The Big Field: A Teachers' Guide|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This teachers' guide is designed to accompany [[The Big Field: A ChildNewest Children's Year Under the Southern Cross by Anne MorddelRhymes and Verse Reviews]]. The inspiration for the book came about when the author worked as a librarian at a school in the state of Paranã in Brazil. In trying to find a book about the seasons (and how the natural world around them changed) for children in the five to eleven age group she realised that none existed for the southern hemisphere. She set out to remedy the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186417</amazonuk>}}