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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1839948493|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of In the pages interests of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] bookfull disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any bookabout dogs, pointing out some of the most gruesome moments in historyI'm going to sit down and devour. After some classic gallows humour Then I'm going to go back and a brief mention read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour Dogs'', with ancient Mesopotamianinety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. The book includes Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the Assyrians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish and Americans. It also covers several different periods accidental owner of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20an American Dingo - she's, the first and second world wars, and learned quite a quick section on Ruthless Rulerslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1529507987|title=Terrifying Tudors The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Horrible HistoriesIllustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Ilove ''The Repair Shop''ve always thought Terry Deary was years ahead of his time. He was writing books that boys really wanted It's my go-to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all the efforts programme when I want to close the be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever widening gender gap in readingmentioning what they're worth. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to read You see, but the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made value is in the way books what these possessions are printed worth to make the people who own them more accessible to struggling readers over and the last 20 yearsmemories they hold. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible Years'' has addressed this issue No expense appears to be spared and makes the books not only experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the type of books that boys want to read, but also desired result. Regular viewers know the type of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary024162343X|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'Facts. Where was the proof? In history lessons, facts and nothing but it was probably worse still. Not too long after the factsend of WWII, I didn'' - if this is your idea of a history book - stop right here. Terry Dearyt so much want to learn about the British army's Horrible Histories do contain factssuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in a well laid out easy what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to follow mannerbe there in the first place. But Terry Deary did not intend Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to write approach 'the Horrible problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History as history books, but rather as joke books''. They may have ended up }}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with far more history than he originally intendedthe pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, but they remain a collection of amusing stories and jokestheir muckers, rather than a collection of dry facts. Deary never intended his books doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to be used do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to teach history - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him offsynagogue choir and at a vocational school. He set out Kurt has to write books that children wanted to read, books that make sure the lamps are both engaging and entertaining, turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and whether he intended it workmanlike as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long light switch. But this is the time just before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want the Austrian leader is going to cave to learn about history. Children pick up DearyHitler's books because he speaks directly will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite themin with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, not as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the language younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of authority and an evacuation to Britain or the adult worldUS, but in a as co-conspirator. They read while Fritz and his books because they father are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant unknown initially to themeach other, they actually do learn this as wellpacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. What's more, they remember it unlike And us wondering how the facts they might memorise titular event for a history quiz.the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1913750353|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=The Horrible Histories series is ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a favourite with both schools sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to be used in educationknow about this brilliant book. He originally set out to write a joke book, based It starts on a historical subjectJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', but freed from the constraints of school tells you how to pronounce it (''raz- he discovered what so many of us have also found muh- history really is fun. Instead of a joke book with a bit of historyTAZ''), Deary ended up with gives you a history book - with quite definition and then includes the word in a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertain, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just sentence so that, you know how it entertains both children should be used. You also get an engaging and adultsfrequently amusing illustration too. It is difficult to read any of Deary I don't think I's books without learning something, but learning is incidental - ve ever encountered a word which uses the fun comes first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson0711266204|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=One day Maxi wanders into I have recently discovered a rehearsal great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolerobirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrumentAn hour can pass without my noticing. Eventually he falls asleep on I've established which species feed from the stageground, tired out by which pop to the excitement feeders for a quick snatch of his adventuressome food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. He wakes It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a loud booming noise book such as the beginning ''The Secret Life of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concertBirds''. He scuttles down into a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Truth About LoveInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=We are never too far from springtime, when, of course'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a ''young man's fancy lightly turns clear and accessible introduction to thoughts the world of love''germs. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young We get an informed look at how people's fancies turn to trivia originally thought about love customs, predictions of who diseases and what they'll marry thought caused them and what how the whole symbolism around love, Valentines and marriage meanthinking has developed over time. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited for vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the primary school librarytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, although he slips up once when asking if protists and viruses – and how we think our partners smell niceshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1800464495|title=Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=I suppose you could describe any book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably cleverwomb, rhyming introductionbeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, we enter the world of prehistory with Aassessing probability at six months old, and exit with Z, having met 27 (yes, therecomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''s a surprise guest entrant) animals along the way. And the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>}}Did you know this? I didn't! How about:

{{newreview|author=Mike Dilger|title=Wild Town (RSPB)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Would you like to know what about the thriving wildlife in Britain's towns and cities? What natural riches are out there, if only you know where (and how) Maths ability on entry to look? ''Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desertschool is a strong predictor of later achievement, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves - the book describes animals, and some plants, to be found in eachdouble that of literacy skills. You'll be amazed at what'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 you'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>}}

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, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele1406395404|title=Discover the The Awesome WorldPower of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Back in 2011 2020 has been a strange year: I was impressed by [[Discover the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]doubt anyone would argue with that statement. I said that In my day it would Lots of our routines have been called an encyclopaediacompletely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull – Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy presentothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, but with that book you needed from children to start at adults will have the opposite end odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the scalesleep is only likely to make it worse. It And 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 – clear Being 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 move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun and (say it quietly) it's educational. 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 the same comments apply survive on little sleep has almost become something to Discover the Awesome Worldput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Martin1849767343|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember StuffCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=When I look back on my school days The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it didn't seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping with Is either about responsibility - or it'm ''amazed'' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods of jogging their memoriess a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezyt: it' gives them lots of ways of remembering s a rich variety hymn of facts, but also shows them how they can develop their own ways of helping their memorypraise to maths. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymes, acrostics, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms why maths is so wonderful and wordplay. It's not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts how you meet it in with the methodseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Goldschadt1849767009|title=Craft-A-Day: 365 Simple Handmade ProjectsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Looking back on my childhood This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the most useful skill I acquired was that of making things. I was choir': the daughter of a man only people who made a greenhouse out of a derelict bus, so 'll buy it was inevitable are the people who know that something would rub off on me. Well over half a century later it still stands me in good stead: I can see nudity is OK and the ones who ''howknow'' to make things, that it''how'' to solve problems s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and my imagination was fired up at an early stage. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a bus-to-greenhouse converter bothered person in-house, but the best start supermarket who is being encouraged coughing fit to make things ''regularly'bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It' s a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and learning that you donmarkings. They't always have to buy everything you needre fine. A drum rollIn fact, please for Sarah Goldschadt's ''Craft-A-Day'they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745951</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley1776572858|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=You know itIt's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripleymore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she's ''Believe It or Not'', d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the celebration of all that's macabrebasics, shocking, gruesome and frequently downright revolting - in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told thatit wouldn't be discussed any further as it 's just the 'wasn't something which nice peopletalked about''. Just wait until you get to the non-human items. We donI ''knew't usually cover annuals at Bookbag because they've frequently gone out of fashion before too many months have passedmore, but these books can be read year after year and theywas little ''wiser're still going to make the average adult feel rather unwell. Yes - you're right. Kids are going to love itThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona Foden1526362759|title=Dosh: How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look and Feel FabulousEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that this is What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, 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 acquire more of it (although she does admit that these helpnope - robbing banks is out)and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. ItYour reasons for wanting money don's about looking amazing, but still being yout matter: we all need it to some extent. It's about having confidence in who you are and having You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a positive energy about saver (you. Itmight even become an ''investor''s about having great friends - ) and there might be something you really, ''beingreally'' a great friend, in fact being the sort of person that everyone wants want to knowbuy. She promises that most There's also the possibility of what she suggests is not going using to break do good in the Bank - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free and it's all easyworld. So how does it live up to the promises?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy178112938X|title=ABC DentistSurvival in Space: 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 of interest too. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but don't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Michael Rosen|title=Fantastic Mr DahlDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in a deep, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats to you about books. He tells you interesting things about Roald DahlIt's life, and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writingfifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, secure in but the knowledge story of that you already know and love journey remains one of the greatest survival storiesof all time. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time to time to ask your opinion — and it 's clear he's really interested Survival in your answer. Do you prefer the original version of Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''James and the Giant Peach'', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1609809173|title=The Comic Strip Book of Dinosaurs|rating=3|genre=ChildrenEiffel's Non-Fiction|summary=If I asked you all to put your hands up if you had a dinosaur book as a youth I'd feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves Tower for years and survived several readings, and I'm sure that'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, is a primer of prehistory, and one such as the young me never had.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewYoung People|author=Various|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryJill Jonnes

|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (me, on the other hand, I love books full of words) and puts a colourful Brash and fun spin on it. Because if you’re having to look up how to spell a wordelegant, or what something meanssophisticated, it helps to have pages with lemon controversial and violet and aquamarine bordersvibrant, dotted with presents and hearts and stars. That’s not to say the dictionary isn’t clear and easy to read because it certainly is: 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the decorations don’t extend into best, the centre of worst and the pages, beautiful from many countries and the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanationscultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, all neatly formatted put on crisp white pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbook: Food|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot of factsart shows, dance performances, you know food festivals and concerts to stun the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is about foodsenses. It follows And towering above it all, the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Ross. The book's divided into chapters which are just most popular and the right length most hated monument to appeal to the emerging reader French accomplishment and to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under the belt. 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 daring – the boxes as an early readerEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1848576536|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of WondersHumanatomy: RomansHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5

|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 mannerGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and 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 didngo inside your insides!'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>}}

{{newreview|author=Tony Robinson|title=Tony RobinsonThat's Weird World of Wonders: Egyptians|rating=3.5|genre=Childrenwhat ''Humanatomy''s Non-Fiction|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this beforeinvites you to do and honestly, for he was doing I don'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official ones were madet see how you could resist. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly manner, and this launching informative book takes us provides a wonderful primer about the human body to the strangest of worlds curious children- yet one only a museum visit away, that of from the ancient Egyptians. A lot is in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred '''were''' those Ptolemys?!), skeletal system to the gross-out being relished (making mummiesmuscular system via circulation, respiration and some alleged Egyptian medicines) and digestion, right up to the obvious differences between them and us foregrounded so DNA that makes who 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)are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533878</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen KingLangford_Emily|title=Make and Do: BakeEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=I love the idea of kids cookingEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. ThereObviously, you can count anything and there's going no limit to be messhow far you can go, probably but then Emily moved a bit of waste step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and you're going to have to bite your tongue an awful lot, but it really is the most amazing funeven numbers. Best Then she began counting in threes: half of allthe list were even numbers, though - from an early age kids learn that they can go into but the kitchen other half was odd and make something it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which they can eatshe called ''threeven''. They don(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they't need to go to re a subset of the shops and buy a ready meal or odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a takeaway for junk food. They can make something themselves. It's a life skillsubset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Green and Simon BasherBuckingham_Dawn|title=Basher Science: OceansThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! Ireally did mean to just 've often wondered why this planet is called 'earthglance' when three-quarters ' at ''The Little Book of it obviously isnthe Dawn Chorus't and it seems that I'm not alone. Dan Green and Simon Basher have decided but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to take resist on a close look at the oceans cold and other bodies of water on rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the planet birds and listening to explain them in simple words, accompanied by Simon Brasher's illustrations which are almost - but not quite - mangatheir song. It's a style which kids are going to be comfortable with Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and they're not going to associate it with something boring which they have to learnwas just as good the second time around. It's fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753433443</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyPankhurst_Women|title=The QueenFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=Those A lot of us who've been around for longer than the Queen has been on the throne tend to forget that not everyone knows about her history or who-is-who about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in the family. Richard Brassey has set out history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to remedy that with this easy-readabout or regard as role models. Of course, almost comic-style book about Her Majesty this isn't true and there's lots in there in the way are plenty of fascinating informationwomen who, throughout history, some fun facts and (I'll confess!) a few anecdotes which left me chucklinghave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, sometimes with and sometimes..or created something never seen before. erSo here, well, I think we'll gloss over that bit, but let me say that in this wonderful picture book is not at all sycophantic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001272</amazonuk>from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.

 [[Category:Confident Readers]]{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellen Emerson WhiteIgnotofsky_Sport|title=TitanicWomen in Sport: An Edwardian Girl's Diary 1912Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Margaret Anne Brady had been at the orphanage for several years when one of the Sisters told her that she'd been asked 'Women in Sport'' is coming to accompany a lady who was crossing us just before the Atlantic. This was a dream come true for Margaret as he only relative - her brother William - lived Winter Olympics in Boston and he'd been trying to save up her fare so that she could join him South Korea in the USAFebruary 2018. Mrs Carstairs is wealthy It celebrates a century and she and Margaret will be travelling First Class - on a half of the maiden voyage development of RMS ''Titanic'women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. All Margaret's dreams seemed to be coming true Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at onceit is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher EdgeRooney_Dino|title=How to Make Money: Smart Ways to Make MillionsDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Most kids seem to feel that they could do Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with more money and short sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of the parentals coughing up the dosh they have to find creatures, some way of earning it for themselves. Christopher Edge has whom are very familiar but some ideas which might appeal in I''How d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to Make Money'', with its particularly eye-catching sub-title ''Smart Ways background noises, roars and squawks to make MILLIONSaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it''. Now I rather thought (hoped) that s very visual, placing the last bit might be hyperbole, fearing dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that the country might be over-run by a flood of teenage millionaires, but read on..spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129651</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen BlumenthalMason_poo|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=If there was a prize for the most lavish book received here at Bookbag Towers for reviewI know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this would definitely be on the shortlist. A lovely large format hardback, the cover book is a delight itself - with a 3D lenticular image, embossed bits, a plastic gem stuck in brilliant! I sat and read it... And inside there are packets of goodies by myself when the kids had gone to open school and explore, making this more of a literary toy than a book. found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book aims manages to introduce the cleverer child to the wonders be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of stagecraft facts and magicfigures, photographs and so here are props for some tricks for funny cartoons, you to docome away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, some instructions for other illusions of your ownwhy poos smell, and a historical guide to how the masters of their trade did itwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772084</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Patricia McKissack, Frederick L McKissack Jr and Randy DuBurke|title=Best Shot in the West|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary='We're going Move on 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>}} {{newreview|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 HenryNewest Children's Bodies by Francesca Simon Rhymes and Tony Ross|BodiesVerse Reviews]] 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>}}