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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1839948493|title=The Truth About LoveA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=We are never too far from springtime, when, In the interests of coursefull disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'young mant trust and I's fancy lightly turns to thoughts ve loved most of lovethem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young peopleAnd so it was with ''s fancies turn to trivia about love customs, predictions A World of who theyDogs''ll marry and what the whole symbolism around love, Valentines and marriage meanwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell niceaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1529507987|title=Alphasaurs The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Other Prehistoric TypesSonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I suppose you could describe any book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the makinglove ''The Repair Shop''. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up overnight. After a suitably cleverhard day, rhyming introductionthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, we enter the world of prehistory with A, value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and exit with Z, having met 27 (yes, there's a surprise guest entrant) animals along the waymemories they hold. And No expense appears to be spared and the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the selling pointdesired result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk> Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Dilger024162343X|title=Wild Town (RSPB)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=Would you like I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to know what learn about the thriving wildlife in BritainBritish army's towns successes (and cities? What natural riches are out thereoccasional failures, if only you know where (and howbut we didn't dwell on those) in what came to look? be called 'the colonies'Wild Town'' will tell youas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Divided into habitats - desert Looking back, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the book describes animals, and some plants, maturity to be found in eachapproach 'the problem' politely. You I wish I'll be amazed at whatd had Sathnam Sanghera's out there. And you'll find out a lot about a teeming natural world right on your doorstep. It will tell you the best places to spot animals and plants - and, thanks to the wonderful photography, you'll have no trouble recognising them once youStolen History're there. From the iconic foxes and badgers to the less well known species of bird, amphibian and insect, it's all there in all its diversity and beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt Jeremy Dronfield and Philip SteeleDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Discover the Awesome WorldFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Back in 2011 I was impressed by [[Discover We start with the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyerepair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, Clive Giffordand their muckers, John Farndondoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, Steve Parkerhelping the neighbours, Stewart Ross being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and Philip Steele]]at a vocational school. I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and remained largely unread by those who received it workmanlike as a worthy present, but with that book you needed to start at light switch. But this is the opposite end of time just before the scale. ItAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's about visual impact. A fact is linked will, and instead of having a national vote to a picture and keep the more striking the better – and only then is it explainedNazis out, invite them in with open arms. The text is ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as simple much as possible – clearin Germany, unambiguous wording which drives as did all the point home as quickly as possibleround-ups of Jews. The layout encourages you to move These in their turn leave the book so that you see the pictures better younger Kurt at home with his mother and can read sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the words. It's fun US, while Fritz and (say it quietly) it's educational. Now I'm not in the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same comments apply train to Discover Buchenwald and the Awesome Worldstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreview|author=Steve Martin|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When I look back on my school days it didn't seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping with I'm ''amazed'' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods of jogging their memories. 'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy' gives them lots of ways of remembering a rich variety of facts, but also shows them how they can develop their own ways of helping their memory. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymes, acrostics, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms and wordplay. It's not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts in with the methods.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Goldschadt1913750353|title=Craft-A-Day: 365 Simple Handmade Projects|rating=4|genre=ChildrenBritannica's Non-Fiction|summary=Looking back on my childhood the most useful skill I acquired was that Word of making things. I was the daughter of a man who made a greenhouse out of a derelict bus, so it was inevitable that something would rub off on me. Well over half a century later it still stands me in good stead: I can see ''how'' to make things, ''how'' to solve problems and my imagination was fired up at an early stage. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a bus-to-greenhouse converter in-house, but the best start is being encouraged to make things ''regularly'' and learning that you don't always have to buy everything you need. A drum roll, please for Sarah Goldschadt's ''Craft-A-Day''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745951</amazonuk>}} {{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 passedPatrick Kelly, but these books can be read year after year Renee Kelly 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 FabulousSue Macy|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 - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A to Z|rating=45

|summary=I hope that children are not as fearful ''Britannica's Word of going the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to the dentist as used regularly Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to be the case, but even those who are unworried will benefit from know about this useful brilliant book directed mainly at the five . It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to ten age grouppronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), although I'm sure gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that older children will find you know how it of interest should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but I don't be fooledthink I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen0711266204|title=Fantastic Mr DahlThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in I have recently discovered a deep, squishy armchair with a cup great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while birds which visit our garden on a favourite uncle chats to you about booksdaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahl I's life, and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in ve established which species feed from the knowledge that you already know and love the stories. Just as importantground, he pauses in his chat from time to time which pop to ask your opinion — and it's clear he's really interested in your answer. Do you prefer the original version feeders for a quick snatch of ''James some food and the Giant Peach'', or the one which who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it more knowledgeable. It would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom windowhave been wonderful if, as a child, like the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip Book of Dinosaurs|rating=3|genre=ChildrenI's Non-Fiction|summary=If I asked you all d had access to put your hands up if you had a dinosaur book such as a youth I'd feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years and survived several readings, and I'm sure thatThe Secret Life of Birds''s not unique - plus, over the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, to make the books more accurate. Here then, for the 5-9s, So – what is a primer of prehistory, and one such as the young me never had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various0192779230|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes 'Germs' seems to have become a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (me, on catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the other handfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, I love books full of words) OUP and puts Isabel Thomas have provided a colourful clear and fun spin on itaccessible introduction to the world of germs. Because if you’re having to We get an informed look up at how to spell a word, or people originally thought about diseases and what something means, it helps to have pages with lemon they thought caused them and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted with presents and hearts and starshow the thinking has developed over time. That’s not to say The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the dictionary isn’t clear trickiest concepts and easy to read because it certainly is: the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pagesyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pagesviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross1800464495|title=A Horrid Factbook100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: FoodSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of factsquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, you know and the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is about food. It follows the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Ross. The book's divided into chapters which are just the right length to appeal to the emerging reader comprehending addition and to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under the beltsubtraction at nine months old. With ninety-nine pages of text there's enough to give the sense of having read ''a book'' but without it being too much of a trial. It ticks all the boxes as an early reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tony Robinson|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Romans|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly manner, and Did you know this second book takes us in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Rome. A lot is in these books, from trivia for all ages (? I didn'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 man's cuisine) to the foregrounding of the obvious difference between them and us (in a word, slavery).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk>}}! How about:

{{newreview|author=Tony Robinson|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Egyptians|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly manner, and this launching book takes us Maths ability on entry to the strangest school is a strong predictor of worlds - yet one only a museum visit awaylater achievement, double that of the ancient Egyptiansliteracy skills. A lot is in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred '''were''' those Ptolemys?!), 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>}}

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=Kathleen King1406395404|title=Make and DoThe Awesome Power of Sleep: BakeHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I love the idea doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of kids cookingour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. ThereSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I's going ve got loads to be mess, probably a bit of waste doing) and you're going to have to bite your tongue an awful lot, but it really is the most amazing funothers will worry unnecessarily. Best of allMost people, though - from an early age kids learn that they can go into children to adults will have the kitchen and odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make something which they can eatit worse. They donAnd there't need to go to s also the shops fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and buy a ready meal or sleep made to a takeaway for junk foodseem like laziness. They can make Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something themselvesto put on your CV. It's a life skill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon Basher1849767343|title=Basher Science: OceansCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=I've often wondered why The title and format of this planet is called book might lead you to think that it'earth' when threes either about responsibility -quarters of or it obviously isn't and it seems that I'm not alone. Dan Green and Simon Basher have decided to take s a close look at the oceans and other bodies of water basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the planet and to explain them in simple words, accompanied by Simon Brasher's illustrations which are almost - but not quite - manganumbers journey. Itisn't: 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 hymn of praise to learnmaths. It's funabout why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Brassey1849767009|title=The QueenIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Those This could have been one of us those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who've been around for longer than ll buy it are the Queen has been on people who know that nudity is OK and the throne tend to forget ones who ''know'' that not everyone knows about her history or whoit's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-isand-who bothered person in the familysupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Richard Brassey has set out to remedy that with this easy-read, almost comic-style But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about Her Majesty and therenot wearing clothes. It's lots in there in the way a celebration of fascinating information, some fun facts bodies: bodies large and small and (I'll confess!) a few anecdotes which left me chuckling, sometimes of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and sometimesmarkings. They're fine.. er, well In fact, I think wethey'll gloss over that bit, but let me say that this book is not at all sycophantic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001272</amazonuk>re wonderful.

 [[Category:Confident Readers]]{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen Emerson White1776572858|title=Titanic: An Edwardian Girl's Diary 1912How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Margaret Anne Brady had been at the orphanage for several It's more than sixty years when one of the Sisters since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told her me that she'd been asked to accompany get me a lady who was crossing the Atlanticbook about it. This A couple of days later I was handed a dream come true for Margaret as he only relative - her brother William - lived pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in Boston and he'd clinical language which had never been trying to save up her fare so that she could join him used in the USA. our house before) Mrs Carstairs is wealthy and she and Margaret will I was told that it wouldn't be travelling First Class - on the maiden voyage of RMS discussed any further as it ''wasn'Titanict something which nice people talked about''. All MargaretI ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''s dreams seemed to be coming true at once.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131419</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Make Money: Smart Ways to Make MillionsEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Most kids seem What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to feel that they could acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with more money and short of the parentals coughing up the dosh they have it when you've managed to find some way get hold of earning it . Your reasons for themselveswanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. Christopher Edge has some ideas which You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might appeal in even become an ''How to Make Moneyinvestor'') and there might be something you really, with its particularly eye-catching sub-title ''Smart Ways to make MILLIONSreally''want to buy. Now I rather thought (hoped) that There's also the last bit might be hyperbole, fearing that possibility of using to do good in the country might be over-run by a flood of teenage millionaires, but read on..world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129651</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Blumenthal178112938X|title=Steve JobsSurvival in Space: The Man Who Thought DifferentApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=BiographyDyslexia Friendly|summary=Framed by JobsIt' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, and s fifty years since the three stories he told Apollo 13 mission was launched from the studentsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, about connecting but the dots, love and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account story of that journey remains one of Jobs' life, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personality. The author actively annotates the backstory greatest survival stories of Jobs with references from this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobsall time. '' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his story. JobsSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charismais a brilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins1609809173|title=IllusionologyEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=If there was a prize for Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the most lavish book received here at Bookbag Towers for review1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, this would definitely be on the shortlistworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. A lovely large format hardbackThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, the cover is a delight itself - with a 3D lenticular imageput on art shows, embossed bitsdance performances, a plastic gem stuck in itfood festivals and concerts to stun the senses... And inside there are packets of goodies to open and exploretowering above it all, making this more of a literary toy than a book. The book aims to introduce the cleverer child to most popular and the wonders of stagecraft and magic, and so here are props for some tricks for you most hated monument to do, some instructions for other illusions of your own, French accomplishment and a historical guide to how daring – the masters of their trade did itEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772084</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke1848576536|title=Best Shot in Humanatomy: How the WestBody Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary='We're going to do the real WestGet under your own skin, Nat. You're as real as the rest of 'em - Bat Masterson, Calamity Janepick your brains, Wild Bill, the Earps.and go inside your insides!' 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>}}

{{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid HenryThat's Sports|rating=4|genre=Childrenwhat '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, IHumanatomy'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 invites you to Watch the Olympics: Scores do and lawshonestly, 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 Training|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I don't often pick up see how you could resist. This informative book provides a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative wonderful primer about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined human body to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about curious children- from the pups-in-training, skeletal system to the working dogsmuscular system via circulation, the adults who have guide dogsrespiration and digestion, or struggle right up to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs DNA that makes who don't turn out to be what's neededwe are. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=PredatorsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you 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 threes: half of humans they helped to dispatchthe list were even numbers, mosquitoes may be but the most deadly animals everother half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. But did you know that if you take into account (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the success rate odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of huntsthe even numbers, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel MizielinskiBuckingham_Dawn|title=DesignThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Although this is What a book for children treat! I can imagine plenty really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of grown ups who would find it fascinating! Itthe Dawn Chorus''s but the pull of the sounds of a wonderful dip in and dozen different birds singing their hearts out book was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I actually found myself keeping it in our washing basket in spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the bathroom so birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could have a quick read whenever - I needed to spend a penny! It depicts 69 objects from went back and did it all over again and it was just as good the world that were designed in the last 150 yearssecond time around. There'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>So, what do you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lois Rock and Steve NoonPankhurst_Women|title=The Lion Bible in its TimeFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=This factual book approaches stories from the bible A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in a historical wayhistory at all, looking at the lives people would have been living at the timelet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, the sort of homes they had this isn't true and the reigning monarchs there are plenty of each erawomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. Working through So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the old testament to the new testament it covers a wide range stories of some of biblical stories and is illustrated throughout with fascinating, detailed picturesthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris BarnardoIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Dragonolia|rating=4|genre=children's Non-Fiction|summary=This book is, first of all, a rather beautiful book Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played 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>}} {{newreviewWin|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed CommonersRachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|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 didnWomen in Sport'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 is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in some drunken bacchanalFebruary 2018. The length It celebrates a century and a half of the development of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasnwomen't wholly whole all that time)) was news to mes sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as was the raffle that was held (diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a good book for children double-page spread with a brief biography and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into thema striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy RipleyRooney_Dino|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Here at Bookbag we don't usually cover annualsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. In our experience people either know they want them or don't bother This one comes with them and once the year is out there's not sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a lot variety of interest in themcreatures, particularly if theysome of whom are very familiar but some I're based on a character which might well have gone out d never heard of fashion. Ripley's ''Believe It Or Notbefore!'' is different. The series is about interesting facts – all of which are true - which Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are going getting up to surprise the readers , with background noises, roars and will continue squawks to surprise accompany them years down the line. Just to test this out we had ! The book creates a look back at the [[Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010 by Robert Leroy Ripley|2010 edition]] and dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's still as shockingvery visual, gruesome placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and downright compulsive as it was when we first saw itgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946704</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen LawMason_poo|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children'The Philosophy Files'' s poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn''t know about poo? The Philosophy Files 2'' were first published in 2000 book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and 2003 respectivelyeducational. Now we have them combined Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and reissued with illustrations by funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the wonderful Daniel Postgatevulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey|title=Great Stories from British History|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Since when was History True?'' is the heading of the first chapter and it's one which you need to read ''before'' you buy this beautiful book, because it would be easy to assume from the title and the pictures Move on the cover that it's a history ''text'' book you're going to invest in. In ''some'' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a ''story'' book. This is a book of the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) true, some have been debunked by historians and some have simply fallen into disuse – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogether.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betty G Birney|title=Humphrey's World of Pets|rating=4|genre=[[Newest Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The verb to pet means to cosset, pay loving attention to, to have loving, touching time with. It might as well mean to have in your household while spending a lot of money on, and being duty-bound and beholden 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 Rhymes and money expenditure in owning a pet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>}}Verse Reviews]]