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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blumenthal1839948493|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|summary=Horrid Henry is back with another book In the interests of freaky facts full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and random triviaI've loved most of them. We loved his I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about [[A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henrydogs, I's Bodies by Francesca Simon m going to sit down and Tony Ross|Bodies]] and this time the lovable lad (well, devour. Then I'm sure that's what his mother said...) is going to go back with a book about sportand read it properly. And in the year so it was with ''A World of the London Olympic Games, what could be more suitable? ItDogs''s not just a crammer for [[How to Watch the Olympics: Scores and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to every sport by David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton|every sport in the Games]] or [[The Story of the Olympics by Richard Brassey|the background to the Games]] themselvesmy four-legged friends. This is Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the book which swoops into the World Cow Poo Throwing Contest and delves into the Bog Snorkling Championshipsaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001647</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hay1529507987|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I donlove 't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in TrainingThe Repair Shop''. Archie is a puppy destined It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a guide dog for a blind person and hehard day, there's just one story in a book about nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the pups-value is in-training, what these possessions are worth to the working dogs, people who own them and the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle memories they hold. No expense appears to learn be spared and the techniques - or even what happens experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the dogs who don't turn out to be what's neededdesired result. ThereRegular viewers know the experts and they's a full range as well as information about re all brilliant at explaining what a guide dog costs - and itis they's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall024162343X|title=Predators|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple count of humans they helped to dispatch, mosquitoes may be the most deadly animals ever. But did you know that if you take into account the success rate of hunts, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStolen History|author=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski|title=DesignSathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5
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|summary=Although this is a book for children I can imagine plenty was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of grown ups who would find a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it fascinating! was probably worse still. ItNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's a wonderful dip in successes (and out book and I actually found myself keeping it occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in our washing basket what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the bathroom so first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I could have a quick read whenever regret that I needed lacked the maturity to spend a penny! It depicts 69 objects from all over approach 'the world that were designed in the last 150 yearsproblem' politely. ThereI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's everything here from octopus-inspired lemon juicers through to sofas made to look like a pair of lips or an Ottoman that resembles a shapely lady's bottom!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467839</amazonuk>'Stolen History''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois Rock Jeremy Dronfield and Steve NoonDavid Ziggy Greene|title=The Lion Bible in its TimeFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=This factual book approaches stories from We start with the bible pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in a historical way1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, looking being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lives people would have been living lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the timejust before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the sort of homes they had and Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the reigning monarchs round-ups of each eraJews. Working through from These in their turn leave the old testament younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the new testament it covers a wide range of biblical stories US, while Fritz and is illustrated throughout with fascinatinghis father are, unknown initially to each other, detailed picturespacked 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 this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Barnardo1913750353|title=Dragonolia|rating=4|genre=childrenBritannica's Non-Fiction|summary=This book is, first Word of all, a rather beautiful book to behold. The red cloth hardback cover with the curled-up golden dragon on the front immediately make you want to pick it up and look inside! It's also a rather unusual book, being a mix of both fiction and non-fiction, so when you begin it you're initially not quite sure what you're looking at. As you read on you discover that there's a story running throughout by Sir Richard Barons, a famous dragon hunter, and with each story he tells there is also a craft project of something related to make!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904967248</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDay|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of KingsPatrick Kelly, Queens, Emperors Renee Kelly and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersSue Macy|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=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 me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children 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! 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 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)
|rating=5
|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
|rating=5
|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
|rating=5
|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)
|rating=5
|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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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsey Fraser1609809173|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery of FictionEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Easily one of Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the most renowned authors of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the 21st centurybest, J.K. Rowling's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook the core of worst and the literary worldbeautiful from many countries and cultures. It provoked a reactionThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, the likes of which have never been seen beforedance performances, food festivals and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined in order for the Harry Potter books concerts to reach stun the level of success they enjoyed, and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowlingsenses. 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 And towering above it can be reached, Rowling's story is anything but orthodoxall, the most popular and her personal 'rags the most hated monument to riches' story only enhances French accomplishment and daring – the Harry Potter legacyEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Bond1848576536|title=Paddington's Guide to LondonHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|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. SoGet under your own skin, pick your brains, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Van Allsburg|title=Queen of the Falls|rating=4.5|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. Theygo inside your insides!'re so good that you could be forgiven for thinking that they're black and white photographs on occasions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony RossLangford_Emily|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid HenryEmily's BodiesNumbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you eat or chewEmily found words ''useful'', did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! but counting was what she loved best. And in a lifetime Obviously, you produce enough urine can count anything and there's no limit to fill how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about 450 baths! odd and even numbers. Do you know how loud Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the loudest burp other half was? odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Or what (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a bogey is made subset of? If these are the sort of facts and figures, complete with odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a handful subset of Horrid Henry and Tony Ross' illustrationsthe even numbers, that would rock your child's world then this is the book for you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruthie Knapp and Jill McElmurryBuckingham_Dawn|title=Who Stole Mona Lisa?The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Taking in What a history of its production, as well as its theft, treat! I really did mean to just ''Who Stole Mona Lisa?glance'' is an intriguing look at La Gioconda. ''The story is told from Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the point pull of view the sounds of Leonardo da Vinci's painting herself, a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and will strike a chord with any intelligent did it all again and curious youngstersit was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811588</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamPankhurst_Women|title=Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea DogsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted a dog but her parents would never allow it A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and she didn't get good enough exam results for her next option – becoming a vetpoliticians. Not one to be deterred she joined the staff Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at Battersea Dogs Homeall, first let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as a kennel maid role models. Of course, this isn't true and eventually as the head there are plenty of rehomingwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. 'Take Me Home' is the story of some of So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the highlights stories of her life at the home and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was therethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Dillon and P J LynchIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Story of BritainWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together a clear, well-written and beautifully concise story of Britain, summing up the history of Britain and Ireland ''Women in a little over 320 pages. Significant events, ranging from the Norman Conquest Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Sea Bubble, Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and groups a half of people ranging from highwaymen to the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 and 3 pages written in Dillondevelopment of women's chatty, easy to read style. There are also maps, including those sport by looking at fifty of the D-Daylandings and the Civil War battlesits highest achievers, a timeline for each major period (Middle Agescovering sports as diverse as swimming, Tudorsfencing, Stuartsriding, Georgiansskating, Victorians and Twentieth Century) much more. Think of a sport and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lyncha pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina GrunfeldRooney_Dino|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 to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Ruth Wickings Anne Rooney and Frances Castle|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassSuzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle Lift the 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 variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I''A Paper Engineering Masterclass''d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you know exactly what you're the various dinosaurs are getting from ''Pop-Up''. You'll see how pop-up books are madeto, learn the tips of the tradewith background noises, roars and make four elaborate 3D models yourself. If you're not rushing out squawks to buy accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it immediately, there's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wallace and GromitMason_poo|title=Wallace The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Gromit's World of InventionTony de Saulles|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We I know, I know, sometimes you really don't have many rules around these want to encourage your children'ere partss poo jokes, but one of them this book is that we don't review TV tie-in books. It's not snobbery; brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it's just that fascinating! Who knew therewas so much I didn's only so many books we have time t know about poo? The book manages to cover be both funny (and TV covers itself quite nicely already. So I'm silly) as well as being naughty by reviewing ''Wallace very interesting and Gromit's World educational. Using a mixture of Invention''facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but I don't care. I couldn't resist it! And Christmas is coming upalso knowing a lot about different types of poo, so you need some gift ideaswhy poos smell, don't you? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007382189</amazonuk>and why wombats do square poos.
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