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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1839948493|title=Philip Ardagh's Book A World of Kings, Queens, Emperors Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersLuisa Uribe|rating=3.5
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|summary=If In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you deem that I'm a good childrensucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I's historical trivia book to be ve never met one that tells you, the adult, something they I didn't know trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about historical trivia, then this is a good examplehuman beings. So, any book about dogs, I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahsm going to sit down and devour. Then I didn't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanalm going to go back and read it properly. The length And so it was with ''A World of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasnDogs''t wholly whole all that time)) was news , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldiermy four-legged friends. Therefore this is Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a good book for children and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into themlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley1529507987|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Here at Bookbag we don't usually cover annuals. In our experience people either know they want them or don't bother with them and once the year is out there's not a lot of interest in them, particularly if they're based on a character which might well have gone out of fashion. Ripley's ''Believe It Or Not!'' is different. The series is about interesting facts – all of which are true - which are going to surprise the readers and will continue to surprise them years down the line. Just to test this out we had a look back at the [[Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010 by Robert Leroy Ripley|2010 edition]] and it's still as shocking, gruesome and downright compulsive as it was when we first saw it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946704</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Stephen Law|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love ''The Philosophy FilesRepair Shop'' and . It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there'The Philosophy Files 2s nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'' were first published re worth. You see, the value is in 2000 what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and 2003 respectivelythe memories they hold. Now we have them combined No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and reissued with illustrations by effort as is required to achieve the wonderful Daniel Postgatedesired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey024162343X|title=Great Stories from British Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|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'Since when . Where was History Truethe proof?'' is In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the heading end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the first chapter British army's successes (and itoccasional failures, but we didn's one which you need t dwell on those) in what came to read ''beforebe called 'the colonies' you buy this beautiful book, because it would be easy as want to assume from dispute what right the title and army had to be there in the pictures on first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the cover that itmaturity to approach 's a history ''text'' book youthe problem're going to invest inpolitely. In I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera'somes '' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a Stolen History''story'' book. This is a book of the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) true, some have been debunked by historians and some have simply fallen into disuse – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogether.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betty G BirneyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Humphrey's World of PetsFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The verb We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to pet means to cossetdo – kicking things around the empty market place, pay loving attention tohelping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to have loving, touching time withthe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. It might as well mean Kurt has to have in your household while spending a lot of money 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 being duty-bound and beholden toworkmanlike as a light switch. Fish (which you canBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler't even properly pets will, and instead of course) need having a permanent power supply for their water's thermometer. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them inwith open arms. There's even pet'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cagesups of Jews. Wherever you look 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's time and money expenditure in owning a pet. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Borgenicht1913750353|title=WCS Junior SurviveoPedia HC (Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Junior Editions)|rating=4|genre=ChildrenBritannica's Non-Fiction|summary=You probably recall all the Worst-Case Scenario books that were a big publishing phenomenon about a decade ago. They itemised things that might be a cause for concern, whether in the office, or the dating world, or the jungle. And then they seemed to run out Word of info, and vanish. But worry not, for the main instigator, David Borgenicht, is back, with a range of similar books for the junior audience. And here he offers a large format encyclopaedia pictorially warning us about dangers in the world around us, and offering advice for us to memorise so we can escape as best we can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>081187690X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDay|author=Caitlin Watson and Vic Le Billon|title=Marvin and Milo: Adventures in Science|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=My dad studied physics, and I think he was always a little disappointed that I didn't fall in love with the subject too. Perhaps if he'd had a Marvin and Milo book to share with me things would've been different? Marvin and Milo are a cat and a dog who like doing experimentsPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and this book contains 45 of their experiments which you are most definitely encouraged to try at home!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758495</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele|title=Discover the Extreme World|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In my day it would have been called 'an encyclopaedia'. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull – and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy present. For 'Discover the Extreme World' you need to start at the opposite end of the scale. It's about visual impact. A fact is linked to a picture and the more striking the better – and only then is it explained. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun and (say it quietly) it's educational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184810474X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Brassey|title=The Story of the OlympicsSue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=It''Britannica's the story Word of the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and the first Games at Olympia right through Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the 2012 Games word in London and even a few hints about sentence so that you know how things might it should be different for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiroused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. It's told in the form which seems to appeal to every child – the comic strip – but I don't be mislead into thinking that this is light-weight or superficial. Itthink I's anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner0711266204|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book Secret Life of KnowledgeBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You don't see pirates reading many booksI have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. If you ask me, itI's because their hooks make ve established which species feed from the pages hard ground, which pop to turnthe feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Of courseIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, the salty damp air would do nothing for I'd had access to a booksuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds's longevity, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood this before you take to the ocean wave and set sail on your adventures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Myatt0192779230|title=Go Green! A Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Person's Guide to the Blue PlanetMinds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? Let's start again. This fantastic book is about the 'Germs'blue'' stuff, everything from oceans seems to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that have become a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creatures, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locks. There are answers catch-all word to lots of questions of cover anything unpleasant which has the 'Why is the sea blue?' varietypotential to make you ill. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to In the physical geography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop of green ketchup, first book in what looks to be surea very promising new series, but my instinctive reaction is that here is the best children's OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to 'water' that I've ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Fraser|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery world of Fiction|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Easily one of the most renowned authors of the 21st century, Jgerms.K. Rowling's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook the core of the literary world. It provoked a reaction, the likes of which have never been seen before, We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined in order for the Harry Potter books to reach the level of success what they enjoyed, thought caused them and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowlinghow the thinking has developed over time. It is difficult not to The vocabulary can be fascinated by the person who is responsible for the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, and although writing is confusing but Thomas gives a profession that doesnregular box headed 't have speak like a typical path by scientist' which it can explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be reachedfamiliar with bacteria, Rowling's story is anything but orthodoxfungi, protists and her personal 'rags to riches' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Bond|title=Paddington's Guide to London|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Some things are just a brilliant idea. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book to his adopted home in the way that only he could do it. All his old friends are there viruses – Mr and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird and of course how we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Londonshould protect ourselves. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Van Allsburg1800464495|title=Queen 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of the FallsMaths|author=Emma Smith
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Annie Edson Taylor was sixty-two years old and a widow. She didn't have very much money saved and she was worried about her future - until she had an inspiration. She would have a barrel made - a very stout and water-tight barrel - and she would be the first person to brave the thundering waters of Niagra Falls in this barrel. Chris Van Allsburgh tells us her story from the moment of inspiration right through to the times after the epic trip, but in truth the words are simpy there to eleborate on his wonderful drawings. They're so good that you could be forgiven for thinking that they're black and white photographs on occasions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is Babies seem to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbookborn with an amazing number sense: Horrid Henry's Bodies|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When you eat or chew, did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And understanding shapes in a lifetime you produce enough urine to fill about 450 baths! Do you know how loud the loudest burp was? Or what a bogey is made womb, being aware of? If these are the sort of facts quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and figures, complete with a handful of Horrid Henry comprehending addition and Tony Rosssubtraction at nine months old.' illustrations, that would rock your child's world then this is the book for you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</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=Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch1406395404|title=The Story Awesome Power of BritainSleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Teens
|summary=How To Get What You Want is 2020 has been a self help book aimed at young people strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('at a crossroads in their lifewho needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, who are unsure what from children to do next. The author adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want only likely to do is half make it worse. And there's also the battle towards achieving itfact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sets out sleep made to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises seem like the 'Balance Chart'laziness. Later on Being up early, working late has been praised and the book deals with how ability to achieve those goals by giving advice survive on how little sleep has almost become something to focus and think positivelyput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle1849767343|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle The title and format of ''A Paper Engineering Masterclass'', you know exactly what this book might lead youto think that it're getting from s either about responsibility - or it''Pops a basic 1-Up''. You'll see how pop2-up books are made, learn 3 book for those just starting out on the tips of the trade, and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfnumbers journey. If you It isn't: it're not rushing out s a hymn of praise to buy it immediately, theremaths. It's something wrong with about why maths is so wonderful and how you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wallace and Gromit1849767009|title=Wallace and GromitIt Isn's World of Inventiont Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=We don't This could have many rules around these 'ere parts, but been one of them those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that we donit't review TV ties shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in booksthe 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 not snobbery; it's just that there's only so many books we have time to cover a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and TV covers itself quite nicely alreadyof every possible hue. So I'm being naughty by reviewing ''Wallace Bodies with disabilities and Gromit's World of Invention'markings. They're fine. In fact, but I donthey't carere wonderful. I couldn't resist it! And Christmas is coming up, so you need some gift ideas, don't you? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007382189</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan James Brown1776572858|title=The Tolpuddle Boy: Transported to Hell How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and BackDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersHome and Family|summary=In 1834, six men from the Dorset village of Tolpuddle It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were deported to Australia for their trade union activitiesmade. This My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a bookabout it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, written in a very simple style for childrenclinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, tells the true story of what happened to thembut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, the politics of their arrest and deportation and the campaign by trade unionists and other supporters of trade union rights to overturn their convictionstimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce1526362759|title=The Big Green BookDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=WellWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, the title's right: why it's bigmatters, how to acquire more of it's green (in message, not colournope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don's t matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a book. saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''The Big Green Bookreally'' is a super guide want to environmental issues for young kidsbuy. It There's packed also the possibility of using to do good in the brim with information, and has more flaps and pop-ups than you could shake a stick atworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der Manuelian178112938X|title=Hieroglyphs From A To Z|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children can write out their own coded messages. It's a simple introduction for any budding Egyptologists, and has a lot of additional information about Ancient Egypt to keep them interested.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=James Mayhew|title=Katie David Long and the Waterlily PondStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see thereIt's a competition to paint a picture fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the style story of Monet. Grandma has a bit that journey remains one of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition for inspiration. When one greatest survival stories of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores..all time. Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond '' is a wonderful introduction for children to art Survival in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In Space: The Woods and GivernyApollo 13 Mission'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Browne|title=Play The Shape Game|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You might have already played the shape game. It involves doing a squiggle on a piece of paper, then either you or someone else has to turn that squiggle into is a full picture. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little, and now he's playing it with 45 celebrities and you. Proceeds from the book and the auction brilliant retelling of the artwork are going to [http://www.rainbowtrustwhat happened.org.uk The Rainbow Trust Children's Charity], who provide emotional and practical support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic cause.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vicki Myron Kathleen Boucher and Brett WitterSara Chadwick|title=Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library CatNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This heart''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-warming help 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 Iowatweens, heard some very strange noises coming from the book drop box that borrowers used in order setting out to return their books when the library was closedshow them vital #lifeskills. On opening the box she discovered Don't groan! I know there is a smallmarket glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, dirty, shivering kitten and her heart melted. As but there is a consequence, the kitten, which was soon needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to be named Dewey, was adopted younger and became the official library catyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson1609809173|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straight|rating=4|genre=ChildrenEiffel's Non-Fiction|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s the firmer rather than the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative and reassuring manner and in a form which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old and above.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTower for Young People|author=Tracey Turner|title=Dreadful FatesJill Jonnes|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Imagine the delight you get, as a book reviewer, when you chance upon a title that stands out, by filling a nice handy gap in the market you'd never even noticed, and doing it so well you want to alert as many people as possible. This is such a time, Dreadful Fates is such a book, and as for the gap… This book hits upon the darker corners of all those copious '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 audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Platt|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!|rating=4
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|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect of familiesBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, it is that books are included. It is evident from the details1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, trivia the worst and the beautiful from many countries and facts here that you don’t need a fathercultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, a motherput on art shows, or siblings. You might even have several spreads of half- and step-siblingsdance performances, food festivals and copious parents hereconcerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, there the most popular and everywhere. You might get the most hated monument to have a nanny, a cohort of family helpers, but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home French accomplishment and daring – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themthe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1848576536|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It is quite certain the reader of this book will not be a bed tester''Get under your own skin, however broad the smile it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream after. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisationpick your brains, a slave, a drudge, or a worker in a Communist collective farm. But it is definitely an eye-opener how all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pages. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>}}go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattLangford_Emily|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Where Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you find can go, but then Emily moved a welter of trivia step further and facts began counting in twos. She knew all about transport from odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the ageslist were even numbers, from but the first use other half was odd and it was this list of Shanks’s pony, to the latest holidays to the edge of space? What has so much detail it can fit odd numbers which occurred when you counted in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? Where can the adult browsing their child’s non-fiction library find a threes which she called 'Glamorous Glennis' going threeven'kinda screwy' and see how it refers . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to the breaking be a subset of the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pageseven numbers, for onebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn MurphyBuckingham_Dawn|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and StuffAndrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ever wanted What a treat! I really did mean to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this is the book for you. If youjust ''re interested in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes and stuff], then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the glance''Science: Sorted!at '' series packed full The Little Book of all the information youDawn Chorus'd want to know. It's all written with but the pull of the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a must-readcold and rather wet February morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, birds and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sightlistening to their song. We loved the warts Then - just because I could -I went back and-did it all picture of her life that she gave us then, again and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a it was just as good the second booktime around. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodPankhurst_Women|title=The Fantastically Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the massesA lot of history is about men. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting Kings and generals and inventors and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the worldpoliticians. Except they didn't want to be pioneers. One of the competitorsSometimes, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid follyfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, not let alone ones young girls might like to open up a new way for menread about or regard as role models. We wished to be madmenOf course, not pioneers.'' Isnthis isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Davies|title=Gaia Warriors|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The best way to read this book is to treat it like a magazine: flip the pages true and dip in. I can guarantee that you will find there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something to catch your eyenever seen before. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate''So here, foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array of different typefaces and page colours make the in this wonderful picture book very easy to browsefrom Kate Pankhurst, and are 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 an informative read for adults as wellstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the spies with their secret world, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or picturesWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It's being able to unravel them celebrates a century and see what they're hiding. It's a combination half of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool, so there) and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history development of codes and ciphers, women's sport by looking at their creationfifty of its highest achievers, the stories behind themcovering sports as diverse as swimming, and how to crack them.|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 carfencing, from Cugnot's steam engineriding, Trevithick's road locomotive and Benz's Motorwagenskating, right through to the record-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco Onemuch more. There are plenty Think of pop-ups a sport and pull tabs to bring a pioneering woman succeeding at it all to life, is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and it's packed with detaila striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousRooney_Dino|title=Hello Kitty Guide to LifeDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Hello Kitty'' is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a huge worldwide phenomenon child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a whole heap variety of related merchandise featuring the cute cartoon cat in dresses and ribbons. It appeals to girls and women creatures, some of many ages, whom are very familiar but this new hardback book some I''Hello Kitty – Guide d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to Life'' is aimed at the brand's younger fans, probably around 6 with background noises, roars and squawks to 14 year olds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixonaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerervery visual, forever placing the dinosaurs in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with their habitats and giving us sounds too that word - he's around at the birth of powered flightspike your imagination. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey TurnerMason_poo|title=Deadly Peril The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and How To Avoid ItTony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have I know, I know, sometimes you ever wondered what really don't want to do if youencourage your children're bitten s poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up myself when the kids had gone to your neck in quicksandschool and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? It's The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a dangerous world out there mixture of facts and figures, photographs and Tracey Turner has all funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the information that young explorersvulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, daredevils and fact-hounds need to knowwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>
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