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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1839948493|title=PredatorsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=Many readers would probably know that on In the simple count interests of humans they helped to dispatchfull disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, mosquitoes may be the I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most deadly animals everof them. But did you know that if you take into account I wish I felt the success rate of huntssame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, diversity I'm going to sit down and spreaddevour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski1529507987|title=DesignThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=Although this is a book for children I can imagine plenty of grown ups who would find it fascinating! love ''The Repair Shop''. It's a wonderful dip in and out book and my go-to programme when I actually found myself keeping it in our washing basket in the bathroom so I could have a quick read whenever I needed want to spend be cheered up. After a penny! hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. It depicts 69 objects from all over You see, the world that were designed value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the last 150 yearsmemories they hold. There's everything here from octopus-inspired lemon juicers through No expense appears to sofas made be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to look like a pair of lips or an Ottoman that resembles a shapely ladyachieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they's bottom!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467839</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Rock and Steve Noon024162343X|title=The Lion Bible in its TimeStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
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|summary=This factual book approaches stories from I was the bible bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a historical way'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, looking at it was probably worse still. Not too long after the lives people would have been living at end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the timeBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the sort of homes they army had and to be there in the reigning monarchs of each erafirst place. Working through from Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the old testament maturity to approach 'the new testament it covers a wide range of biblical stories and is illustrated throughout with fascinating, detailed picturesproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris BarnardoJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=DragonoliaFritz and Kurt
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|genre=children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=This book isWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, first of allhelping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a rather beautiful book to beholdvocational school. The red cloth hardback cover with Kurt has to make sure the curled-up golden dragon lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the front immediately make you want to pick it up Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and look inside! workmanlike as a light switch. ItBut this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's also a rather unusual bookwill, being and instead of having a mix of both fiction and non-fictionnational vote to keep the Nazis out, so when you begin it youinvite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht're initially not quite sure what you're looking athappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. As you read on you discover that there's a story running throughout by Sir Richard BaronsThese 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, a famous dragon hunterunknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and with each story he tells the stone quarry there is also a craft project . And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of something related to make!all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904967248</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1913750353|title=Philip ArdaghBritannica's Book Word of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commonersthe Day|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adult, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this is a good example. I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahs. I didn't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal. The length of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to mePatrick Kelly, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children Renee Kelly and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012Sue Macy|rating=45
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|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 thereBritannica's not a lot Word of interest in them, particularly if theythe Day''re based on has a character sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which might well have gone out of fashionprobably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. Ripley It starts on January 1st with ''s Razzmatazz''Believe It Or Not!, tells you how to pronounce it ('' is different. The series is about interesting facts – all of which are true raz-muh- which are going to surprise TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the readers word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and will continue to surprise them years down the linefrequently amusing illustration too. Just to test this out we had I don't think I've ever encountered a look back at word which uses 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>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Law0711266204|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I 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. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'The Philosophy Files'' and d had access to a book such as ''The Philosophy Files 2Secret Life of Birds'' were first published in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Now we have them combined and reissued with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey0192779230|title=Great Stories from British HistoryVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='Germs'Since when was History True?'' is seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the heading of potential to make you ill. In the first chapter and it's one which you need book in what looks to read ''before'' you buy this beautiful bookbe a very promising new series, because it would be easy OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to assume from the title world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the pictures on the cover that it's a history ''text'' book you're going to invest inthinking has developed over time. In ''some'' ways you are The vocabulary can be confusing but what you are actually acquiring is Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'story'' book. This is a book which explains some of the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) truetrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, some have been debunked by historians protists and some have simply fallen into disuse viruses – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogetherand how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Betty G Birney1800464495|title=Humphrey's World 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of PetsMaths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The verb to pet means ''Babies seem to cosset, pay loving attention to, to have loving, touching time be born with. It might as well mean to have an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in your household while spending a lot the womb, being aware of money onquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and being duty-bound comprehending addition and beholden tosubtraction at nine months old. Fish (which you can't even properly pet, of course) need a permanent power supply for their water's thermometer. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing in. There's even pet-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cages. Wherever you look there's time and money expenditure in owning a pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</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=Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele1406395404|title=Discover the Extreme WorldThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=In my day it 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would have been called 'an encyclopaedia'argue with that statement. It would Lots of our routines have had a lot more text, been rather dull – completely dismantled and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy presentfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. For Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('Discover the Extreme Worldwho needs sleep? - I' you need ve got loads to start at be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the opposite end odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the scalesleep is only likely to make it worse. ItAnd there's about visual impact. A also the fact is linked to that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a picture virtue and the more striking the better – and only then is it explainedsleep made to seem like laziness. The text is as simple as possible – clearBeing up early, unambiguous wording which drives working late has been praised and the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something 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 educationalput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184810474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Brassey1849767343|title=The Story of the OlympicsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ItThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's the story of the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC and the first Games at Olympia right through to the 2012 Games in London and even a few hints about how things might be different basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeironumbers journey. Itisn't: it's told in the form which seems to appeal a hymn of praise to every child – the comic strip – but don't be mislead into thinking that this is light-weight or superficialmaths. It's anything butabout why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1849767009|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
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|genre=Graphic NovelsFor Sharing|summary=Who doesnThis could have been one of 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 't like a nice comic, eh? There'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 accessible much more than a book about the lovely picture and text combos, and facts are far from dull when they come via speech bubbles, donnot wearing clothes. It't you think? Taking full advantage s a celebration of this fact, Sally Kindberg bodies: bodies large and Tracey Turner have, for some time, been creating factual books for children which pass on their insight small and Important Information through the medium of comics. Now for the first time, you can collect 3 of their titles in one simple volumeevery possible hue. Combining the previous reviewed [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg Bodies with disabilities and Tracey Turner|History of the World]] markings. and [[The Comic Strip History of Space by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|History of Space]] with the They're fine. In fact, they'Greatest Greek Myths''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808242</amazonuk>re wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak1776572858|title=So How Do You've Passed Your Driving Test... What NowMake a Baby? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving testmore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Someone has My mother was deeply embarrassed and told you me that youshe're an OK driverd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, right? in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it 'But'wasn' yout something which nice people talked about're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. YouI ''knew''ve got a sense of freedommore, but somehow it's a was little bit ''dauntingwiser''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signsThankfully, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life tootimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason Heller1526362759|title=The Captain Jack Sparrow HandbookDosh: A Guide How to Swashbuckling with the Pirates of the CaribbeanEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You What a relief! 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 it. Your reasons for wanting money don't see pirates reading many books. If you ask me, matter: we all need it's because their hooks make the pages hard to turnsome extent. Of courseYou might want to go into business, the salty damp air would do nothing for be a book's longevityclever shopper, just one more reason to make sure a saver (youmight even become an ''investor''ve read ) and understood this before there might be something you take really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the ocean wave and set sail on your adventurespossibility of using to do good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Myatt178112938X|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide to the Blue PlanetSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? LetIt's start again. This fantastic book is about fifty years since the ''blue'' stuff, everything Apollo 13 mission was launched from oceans to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creaturesthe Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locks. There are answers to lots but the story of questions that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'Why is the sea blue?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop brilliant retelling of green ketchup, to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is the best children's introduction to 'water' that I've ever seenwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey Fraser|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery of Fiction|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Easily one of the most renowned authors of the 21st century, J.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, and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined in order for the Harry Potter books to reach the level of success they enjoyed, and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowling. It is difficult not to be fascinated by the person who is responsible for the phenomenon that is Harry Potter, and although writing is a profession that doesn't have a typical path by which it can be reached, Rowling's story is anything but orthodox, Kathleen Boucher and her personal 'rags to riches' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael BondSara Chadwick|title=Paddington's Guide Nine Ways 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 – Mr and Mrs Brown and their children Jonathan and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird and of course we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Van Allsburg|title=Queen of the FallsEmpower Tweens
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Taking in a history of its production, as well as its theft, ''Who Stole Mona Lisa?9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is an intriguing look at La Giocondaa self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. The story Don't groan! I know there is told from the point of view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting herself, and will strike a chord with any intelligent and curious youngsters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811588</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melissa Wareham|title=Take Me Home: Tales market glut of Battersea Dogs|rating=4|genre=Children's Nonsuch books for we grown-Fiction|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted a dog but her parents would never allow it ups and she didn't get good enough exam results for her next option – becoming young adults too, but there is a vet. Not one needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to be deterred she joined the staff at Battersea Dogs Home, first as a kennel maid younger and eventually as the head of rehoming. 'Take Me Home' is the story of some of the highlights of her life at the home and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was thereyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch1609809173|title=The Story of BritainEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together a clearBrash and elegant, sophisticated, well-written controversial and beautifully concise story of Britainvibrant, summing up the history of Britain and Ireland 1889 World's Fair in a little over 320 pages. Significant eventsParis encompassed the best, ranging from the Norman Conquest to worst and the South Sea Bubble, and groups of people ranging beautiful from highwaymen to the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 many countries and 3 pages written in Dillon's chatty, easy to read stylecultures. There are also mapsThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, including those of the D-Daylandings and the Civil War battlesput on art shows, a timeline for each major period (Middle Agesdance performances, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians food festivals and Twentieth Century) and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lynch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nina Grunfeld|title=How To Get What You Want|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what concerts to do nextstun the senses. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving And towering above itall, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are most popular and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how most hated monument to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus French accomplishment and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering Masterclass|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=With its subtitle of ''A Paper Engineering Masterclass'', you know exactly what you're getting from ''Pop-Up''. You'll see how pop-up books are made, learn daring – the tips of the trade, and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfEiffel Tower. If you're not rushing out to buy it immediately, there's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wallace and Gromit1848576536|title=Wallace Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Gromit's World of InventionJem Maybank|rating=45
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|summary=We don't have many rules around these 'ere partsGet under your own skin, pick your brains, but one of them is that we don't review TV tie-in books. It's not snobbery; it's just that there's only so many books we have time to cover and TV covers itself quite nicely already. So I'm being naughty by reviewing ''Wallace and Gromitgo inside your insides!'s World of Invention'', but I don't care. 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=Ian Winton and Fred PearceLangford_Emily|title=The Big Green BookEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|summary=Well, the titleEmily found words ''useful's right: it's big, itbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's green (no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in messagethrees: half of the list were even numbers, not colour) but the other half was odd and itwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called 's a book. 'threeven'The Big Green Book'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' is re a super guide to environmental issues for young kids. It's packed subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the brim with informationeven numbers, and has more flaps and pop-ups than you could shake a stick atbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der ManuelianBuckingham_Dawn|title=Hieroglyphs From A To ZThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=This look What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children can write ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out their own coded messages. It's was far too much to resist on a simple introduction for any budding Egyptologists, cold and has a lot of additional information rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about Ancient Egypt the birds and listening to keep them interestedtheir song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James MayhewPankhurst_Women|title=Katie and the Waterlily Pond|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition for inspiration. When one of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond'' is a wonderful introduction for children to art in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Anthony Browne|title=Play The Shape GameKate Pankhurst|rating=45
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|summary=You might have already played the shape game. It involves doing a squiggle on a piece A lot of paper, then either you or someone else has to turn that squiggle into a full picturehistory is about men. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little, Kings and generals and now he's playing it with 45 celebrities inventors and youpoliticians. Proceeds from the book and the auction of the artwork are going Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to [http://wwwread about or regard as role models.rainbowtrust.org.uk The Rainbow Trust ChildrenOf course, this isn's Charity], who provide emotional t true and practical support to families there are plenty of women who , throughout history, have a child with a life threatening achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or terminal illnesscreated something never seen before. A fantastic causeSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett WitterIgnotofsky_Sport|title=DeweyWomen in Sport: The True Story of 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 Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to be named Dewey, was adopted and became the official library cat. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWin|author=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straightRachel Ignotofsky|rating=45
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|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 ''Women in Sport'' is seen as coming to us just before the body developing naturally or Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life century and it’s obviously better that it’s a half of the firmer rather than the latterdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative and reassuring manner Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a form which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old brief biography and abovea striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey TurnerRooney_Dino|title=Dreadful FatesDiscovering Dinosaurs|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summaryauthor=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 – Anne Rooney 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?!Suzanne Carpenter
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|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect of families, it is that Lift the flap books are includedhave progressed somewhat since I was a child. It is evident from the detailsThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, trivia and facts here that you don’t need a fatherthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a mothervariety of creatures, or siblings. You might even have several spreads some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of half- and step-siblingsbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, and copious parents herewith background noises, there roars and everywhere. You might get squawks to have accompany them! The book creates a nannydinosaur experience, a cohort of family helpersrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home – placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattMason_poo|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45
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|summary=It I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is quite certain brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the reader of this kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book will not manages to be a bed tester, however broad the smile it carries both funny (and silly) as well as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream afterbeing very interesting and educational. Neither will she or he be Using a vital scribe for some ancient civilisationmixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a slavelittle at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, a drudgewhy poos smell, 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 pageswhy wombats do square poos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>
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