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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You know it's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripley's ''Believe It or Not'', the celebration of all that's macabre, shocking, gruesome and frequently downright revolting - and that's just the people. Just wait until you get to the non-human items. We don't usually cover annuals at Bookbag because they've frequently gone out of fashion before too many months have passed, but these books can be read year after year and they're still going to make the average adult feel rather unwell. Yes <!- you're right. Kids are going to love it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Foden|title=How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look and Feel Fabulous|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that this is a book about how to be gorgeous, but she goes on to explain that this isn't just about having glossy hair, great skin and a wonderful dress (although she does admit that these help). It's about looking amazing, but still being you. It's about having confidence in who you are and having a positive energy about you. It's about having great friends Remove - and ''being'' a great friend, in fact being the sort of person that everyone wants to know. She promises that most of what she suggests is not going to break the Bank - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free and it's all easy. So how does it live up to the promises?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy1839948493|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A to Z|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I hope that children are not as fearful of going to the dentist as used regularly to be the case, but even those who are unworried will benefit from this useful book directed mainly at the five to ten age group, although I'm sure that older children will find it World of interest too. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but don't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDogs|author=Michael Rosen|title=Fantastic Mr DahlCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a deepsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, squishy armchair with a cup I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats to you them. I wish I felt the same about bookshuman beings. He tells you interesting things So, any book about Roald Dahldogs, I's life, and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in the knowledge that you already know m going to sit down and love the storiesdevour. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time Then I'm going to time to ask your opinion — go back and read itproperly. And so it was with 's clear he's really interested in your answer. Do you prefer the original version A World of ''James and the Giant PeachDogs'', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1529507987|title=The Comic Strip Repair Shop Craft Book of Dinosaurs|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=If I asked you all love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to put your hands be cheered up if you had a dinosaur book as . After a youth I'd feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years and survived several readingshard day, and Ithere'm sure thats nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they's not unique - plusre worth. You see, over the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, value is in what these possessions are worth to make the books more accuratepeople who own them and the memories they hold. Here then, for No expense appears to be spared and the 5-9s, is a primer of prehistory, experts spend as much time and one such effort as is required to achieve the young me never haddesired result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk> Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various024162343X|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (me, on I was the bad company other hand, people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I love books full disputed the existence of words) and puts a colourful and fun spin on 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, itwas probably worse still. Because if you’re having to look up how to spell a word Not too long after the end of WWII, or what something means, it helps I didn't so much want to have pages with lemon and violet learn about the British army's successes (and aquamarine bordersoccasional failures, dotted with presents and hearts and stars. That’s not but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to say be called 'the dictionary isn’t clear and easy colonies' as want to read because it certainly is: dispute what right the decorations don’t extend into army had to be there in the centre of first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the pages, and maturity to approach 'the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pagesproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca Simon Jeremy Dronfield and Tony RossDavid Ziggy Greene|title=A Horrid Factbook: FoodFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot We start with the pair of factsbrothers Fritz and Kurt, you know and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is about foodneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. It follows Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony RossSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. The book's divided into chapters which are But this is the time just before the right length Austrian leader is going to appeal cave to the emerging reader Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under keep the beltNazis out, invite them in with open arms. With ninety-nine pages of text there's enough to give the sense of having read 'Kristallnacht'a book'' but without it being too happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of a trialJews. It ticks all These in their turn leave the boxes as younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an early readerevacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1913750353|title=Tony RobinsonBritannica's Weird World Word of Wonders: Romansthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this beforebrilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', for he was doing tells you how to pronounce it ('Horrid History'raz-style TV programmes before the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audiencemuh-friendly mannerTAZ''), gives you a definition and this second book takes us then includes the word in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Romesentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. A lot is in these books, from trivia for all ages (I didndon't know, or had forgotten, that all those Julius Caesar reliefs and statues are of him in a wig as he was bald), to the delectable gross-out (the posh manthink I's cuisine) to the foregrounding of the obvious difference between them and us (in ve ever encountered a word, slavery).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk>which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson0711266204|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World The Secret Life of Wonders: EgyptiansBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[I have recently discovered a great pleasure:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before I sit and watch the official ones were madevast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannerI've established which species feed from the ground, and this launching book takes us which pop to the strangest feeders for a quick snatch of worlds - yet one only some food and who settles in for a museum visit away, that of the ancient Egyptiansgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. A lot is in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''wereThe Secret Life of Birds''' those Ptolemys. So – what is it?!), the gross-out being relished (making mummies, and some alleged Egyptian medicines) and the obvious differences between them and us foregrounded so we can empathise with them (and at the same time remember it's harder for most of us to sleep on our roofs than they would have found it).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533878</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen King0192779230|title=Make and DoVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: BakeThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the idea of kids cookingpotential to make you ill. There's going In the first book in what looks to be messa very promising new series, probably OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a bit of waste clear and you're going to have accessible introduction to bite your tongue an awful lot, but it really is the most amazing funworld of germs. Best of all, though - from We get an early age kids learn that informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they can go into thought caused them and how the kitchen and make something which they can eatthinking has developed over time. They donThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist't need to go to which explains some of the shops trickiest concepts and buy a ready meal or to a takeaway for junk food. They can make something themselves. Ityou's a life skillll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon Basher1800464495|title=Basher Science100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: OceansSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I've often wondered why this planet is called 'earth' when three-quarters Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of it obviously isn't quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and it seems that I'm not alone. Dan Green comprehending addition and Simon Basher have decided to take a close look subtraction at the oceans and other bodies of water on the planet and to explain them in simple words, accompanied by Simon Brasher's illustrations which are almost - but not quite - manganine months old. It's a style which kids are going to be comfortable with - and they're not going to associate it with something boring which they have to learn. It's fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</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=Karen Blumenthal1406395404|title=Steve JobsThe Awesome Power of Sleep: The Man Who Thought DifferentHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=BiographyTeens|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at 2020 has been a Stanford College graduation ceremony, strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and the three stories he told the students, for some teenagers this will have brought about connecting the dots, love and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' life, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personalitysleep problems. The author actively annotates the backstory of Jobs with references from Some teens will dismiss this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobsirrelevant (' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his story. Jobs' achievements are incredible and theywho needs sleep? - I're not simply down ve got loads to his genius, but his attitudes towards life be doing) and his incredible charisma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Hawkins|title=Illusionology|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If there was a prize for the most lavish book received here at Bookbag Towers for review, this would definitely be on the shortlistothers will worry unnecessarily. A lovely large format hardbackMost people, from children to adults will have the cover odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is a delight itself - with a 3D lenticular image, embossed bits, a plastic gem stuck in only likely to make it..worse. And inside there are packets of goodies to open and explore's also the fact that for far too long, making this more lack of sleep has been lauded as a literary toy than a bookvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. The book aims to introduce Being up early, working late has been praised and the cleverer child ability to the wonders of stagecraft and magic, and so here are props for some tricks for you survive on little sleep has almost become something to do, some instructions for other illusions of put on your own, and a historical guide to how the masters of their trade did itCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772084</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke1849767343|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going to do the real West, Nat. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill, the Earps.' So says a publisher to a lowly railroad porter, Nat. But if this guy's as real as the rest of those famous names, why does his not trip off the tongue? Is it purely because as the most famous African-American cowboy, he still was not allowed to be as famous as he should?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0811857492</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Sports|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Horrid Henry is back with another book of freaky facts and random trivia. We loved his book about [[A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Bodies by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|Bodies]] and this time the lovable lad (well, I'm sure that's what his mother said...) is back with a book about sport. And in the year of the London Olympic Games, what could be more suitable? It's not just a crammer for [[How to Watch the Olympics: Scores and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation 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]] themselves. This is the book which swoops into the World Cow Poo Throwing Contest and delves into the Bog Snorkling Championships.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001647</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Hay|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingMiguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I donThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it't often pick up a nons either about responsibility -fiction book for the 7+ age group, find or it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pupsbasic 1-in2-training, 3 book for those just starting out on the working dogs, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who donnumbers journey. It isn't turn out to be what: it's neededa hymn of praise to maths. ThereIt's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1849767009|title=PredatorsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Many readers would probably This 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 on nudity is OK and the simple count of humans ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they helped avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to dispatch, mosquitoes may be the most deadly animals everbust. But did you know that if you take ... Rosie Haines makes it into account the success rate something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of hunts, diversity every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and spreadmarkings. They're fine. In fact, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>they're wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski1776572858|title=DesignHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Although this is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book for children I can imagine plenty of grown ups who would find about it fascinating! . It's A couple of days later I was handed a wonderful dip pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in and out book and I actually found myself keeping it clinical language which had never been used in our washing basket in the bathroom so I could have a quick read whenever house before) and I needed to spend a penny! It depicts 69 objects from all over the world was told that were designed in the last 150 yearsit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. ThereI ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser'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>. Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Rock and Steve Noon1526362759|title=The Lion Bible in its Time|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This factual book approaches stories from the bible in a historical way, looking at the lives people would have been living at the time, the sort of homes they had and the reigning monarchs of each era. Working through from the old testament Dosh: How to the new testament it covers a wide range of biblical stories and is illustrated throughout with fascinatingEarn It, detailed pictures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Barnardo|title=Dragonolia|rating=4|genre=children's Non-Fiction|summary=This book isSave It, first of allSpend It, 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! Grow 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>}} {{newreviewGive It|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If you deem What a good relief! A book about money, for children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adultwith clear explanations of what it is, something they didn't know about historical triviawhy it matters, then this how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is a good example. I didnout) and what you can do with it when you't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahsve managed to get hold of it. I didnYour reasons for wanting money don't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in matter: we all need it to some drunken bacchanalextent. The length of time Charlemagne sat on You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a throne (over 400 whole years saver (you might even if he wasnbecome an ''investor''t wholly whole all that time)) was news and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldierbuy. Therefore this is a There's also the possibility of using to do good book for children and in the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into themworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley178112938X|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 Survival 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. Space: 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>}} {{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Stephen Law|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''The Philosophy Files'' and s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Philosophy Files 2Apollo 13 Mission'' were first published in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Now we have them combined and reissued with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgateis a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</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=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey1609809173|title=Great Stories from British HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Since when was History True?'' is the heading of the first chapter Brash and it's one which you need to read ''before'' you buy this beautiful bookelegant, sophisticated, because it would be easy to assume from the title controversial and vibrant, the pictures on the cover that it1889 World's a history ''text'' book you're going to invest Fair in. In ''some'' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a ''story'' book. This is a book of Paris encompassed the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) truebest, some have been debunked by historians the worst and some have simply fallen into disuse – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogetherthe beautiful from many countries and cultures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betty G Birney|title=Humphrey's World of Pets|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The verb to pet means to cossetFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, pay loving attention todance performances, food festivals and concerts to have loving, touching time withstun the senses. It might as well mean to have in your household while spending a lot of money onAnd towering above it all, the most popular and being duty-bound and beholden the most hated monument to. 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 French accomplishment and money expenditure in owning a petdaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Borgenicht1848576536|title=WCS Junior SurviveoPedia HC (Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook Junior Editions)Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children'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''Get under your own skin, whether in the office, or the dating world, or the jungle. And then they seemed to run out 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 uspick your brains, and offering advice for us to memorise so we can escape as best we can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>081187690X</amazonuk>}}go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip SteeleLangford_Emily|title=Discover the Extreme WorldEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In my day it would have been called Emily found words ''useful'an encyclopaedia', but counting was what she loved best. It would have had a lot more textObviously, been rather dull – you can count anything and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy present. For 'Discover the Extreme Worldthere' s no limit to how far you need to start at the opposite end of the scalecan go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. It's She knew all about visual impactodd and even numbers. A fact is linked to a picture and Then she began counting in threes: half of the more striking list were even numbers, but the better – other half was odd and only then is it explainedwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. The text is (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives they're a subset of the point home odd numbers but sound as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you though they ought to move be a subset of the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun and (say even numbers, but it quietly) all worked out well when I really thought about it's educational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184810474X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Story Little Book of the OlympicsDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at 's the story 'The Little Book of the Olympics from earliest times – 776 BC and Dawn Chorus'' but the first Games at Olympia right through to pull of the 2012 Games in London and even sounds of a few hints about how things might be dozen different for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeirobirds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's told in I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the form which seems birds and listening to appeal to every child – their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the comic strip – but don't be mislead into thinking that this is light-weight or superficialsecond time around. It's anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000489</amazonuk>So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of KnowledgeFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You don't see pirates reading many booksA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. If you ask meSometimes, it's because their hooks make the pages hard feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to turnread about or regard as role models. Of course, the salty damp air would do nothing for a bookthis isn's longevityt true and there are plenty of women who, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this before you take to wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the ocean wave and set sail on your adventuresstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia MyattIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to the Blue PlanetWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|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 ''blueWomen in Sport'' stuff, everything from oceans is coming to raindropsus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The book covers just about every angle that It celebrates a century and a child passionate about water might conceivably find half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of interest – marine creaturesits highest achievers, icebergscovering sports as diverse as swimming, sunken volcanoesfencing, tsunamisriding, undersea explorationskating, bores and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locksmuch more. There are answers to lots Think of questions of the 'Why a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is the sea blue?' varietyprobably in this book somewhere. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop 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 seenstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lindsey FraserRooney_Dino|title=J K Rowling: the Mystery of FictionDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Easily 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 the most renowned authors of the 21st centurydinosaurs, J.K. Rowling's incredibly successful Harry Potter series shook the core we meet a variety of the literary world. It provoked a reactioncreatures, the likes some of which have whom are very familiar but some I'd never been seen heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, and likely never will. A unique set of factors combined in order for showing you what the Harry Potter books various dinosaurs are getting up to reach the level of success they enjoyed, with background noises, roars and these factors are explored in this biography of Rowling. It is difficult not squawks to be fascinated by the person who is responsible for the phenomenon that is Harry Potteraccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, and although writing is a profession that doesn't have a typical path by which rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it can be reached, Rowling's story is anything but orthodoxvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and her personal 'rags to riches' story only enhances the Harry Potter legacygiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906134693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondMason_poo|title=Paddington's Guide to LondonThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Some things are just a I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant idea. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book ! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to his adopted home in the way that only he could do school and found it. All his old friends are fascinating! Who knew there – Mr was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and Mrs Brown silly) as well as being very interesting and their children Jonathan educational. Using a mixture of facts and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird figures, photographs and of course we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who has an encyclopaedic knowledge poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of Londonpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos. So, where is Paddington planning to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>
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