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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1839948493|title=Craft it Up Around the A Worldof Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I's alway m a good idea to have plans about activities which will involve and interest childrensucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'Craft it Up Around the World'' wet trust and I've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertainedloved most of them. As I wish I felt the title suggests wesame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I're m going on a world tour to sit down and you can pick the projects devour. Then I'm going to suit other activities you have plannedgo back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', as a reminder with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a holiday or just on a random basislot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Read On - Unsolved Mysteries1529507987|authortitle=Keith West|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line of books. Instead, these are what is known as hi-lo books. The Repair Shop Craft Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade level. I would estimate the reading level of this book to be roughly age eight, but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like the famous Barrington Stoke range, this does have several features to make this book more appropriate to children with dyslexia than the average children's book. With the exception of a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink with a large standard font. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs and chapters giving the reader plenty of breaks. The paper is thick enough that print and pictures from the other side will not show through. This combined with the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dougal Dixon|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''The book starts with Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a simple question. How would we copehard day, how would dinosaurs cope if there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they had not become extinct and were around today? They're put worth. You see, the value is in context, going back what these possessions are worth to the beginnings of Planet Earth four people who own them and a half billion years ago and working forward the memories they hold. No expense appears to show how life evolved be spared and asking if the skills experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the dinosaurs developed would allow them to survive todaydesired result. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers Regular viewers know the experts and flying reptiles - are then looked they're all brilliant at in some detailexplaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr024162343X|title=Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise 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 great many 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of Sharky and GeorgeWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's ideas from our own childhood gamessuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the days when childrencolonies's games usually did take as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place outdoors. Most of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book) Looking back, cops and robbers, boxes with a pen and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed a stone or built a dam in childhood. So you might ask I still believe I was right - why do need a book but I regret that I lacked the maturity to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact is, most of these games are rapidly being forgottenapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide and seek games'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Davide Cali Jeremy Dronfield and Gabrriella GiandelliDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Monsters Fritz and LegendsKurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=My sons love stories We start with the pair of unsolved mysteriesbrothers Fritz and Kurt, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boystheir muckers, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side of doing things. This book is for children who any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to know how do – kicking things around the legends were bornempty market place, if any of helping the creatures could be realneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and what at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the science behind lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the story isSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I do feel But this book is better suited the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to older children seeking Hitler's will, and instead of having a more rational explanation national vote to keep the old storiesNazis out, but my youngest invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did enjoy it as wellall the round-ups of Jews. It might be useful for a child These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a slight fear his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of monsters an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to get a more realistic view of themeach other, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things packed off on the same train to be afraid 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>1909263036</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk Science1913750353|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Do Try This At Home Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub- Cook title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It!!starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' is a fun, very boy friendly tells you how to pronounce it ( but not just for boys''raz-muh-TAZ'') cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts gives you a definition and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book then includes science facts and the word in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruit, or a water chestnut isn't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell sentence so that you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softerknow how it should be used. Children will learn what You also get an emulsion is, why onions make us cry, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg engaging and how to make frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkaline.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy0711266204|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and SupertrainsVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and Supertrains is divided into eight sectionswatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. The first four sections are questions on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, the human brain, natural disasters and finally transportAn hour can pass without my noticing. The following four sections are much longer and provide not only I've established which species feed from the answers ground, which pop to the previous sections' questions, but feeders for a detailed, scientific explanation in clear easy to understand language that even my four year old can usually follow. These answers are very well written and quite interesting to both quick snatch of my children, some food and even as an adult who settles in for a good munch but I wish I found this both educational and entertainingwas more knowledgeable. I It would have to admitbeen wonderful if, as a child, I learned 'd had access to a few things from this book such as well, and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge ''The Secret Life of the human brain before bringing this out againBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Wareham0192779230|title=Rescuing GusVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham was 'Germs'convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs seems to have been born become a catch-all word to parents who, well, wouldn't have them in cover anything unpleasant which has the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatepotential to make you ill. Melissa wouldn't In the first book in what looks to be able to a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a dog until she had a home clear and accessible introduction to the world of her own but in the meantime she got a job germs. We get an informed look at Battersea Dogs' Home how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and it was there that she met Gushow the thinking has developed over time. He wasnThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't in speak like a scientist' which explains some of the first flush of youth trickiest concepts and his breath was a weapon of mass destructionyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, but he protists and Melissa bonded viruses – and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin Brown1800464495|title=Deadly 100 Ways in 100 Days in History (Horrible Histories)|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - with all the nasty bits left in. This is not completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children's book with details which are too graphic for children, but this is without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome of all Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of the Horrible Histories books we have read. While I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year old, I do think this one is best for the older children, would recommend Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a minimum age Love of 7, and this only if the child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further information. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaths|author=Paul Moran|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes and imagines what it would Babies seem to be like if humans had born with an equivalent behaviour, ability, or physical feature. For instanceamazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldn't have to worry about eating too many sweets, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard object. Whenever a tooth fell out, a new one would take its place. If we had the comparative strength being aware of a Hercules beetlequantities at seven hours old, we could lift a double decker busassessing probability at six months old, and if we could jump the equivalent of a froghopper insect, wecomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'d be able to leap over sky scrapers with ease. Not all of the animal traits would be so much fun though. We wouldn't want our parents to eat us if we were not as strong as our siblings like the vole, and while eyes on our hands like a starfish might have a few advantages, it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</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=Terry Deary1406395404|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1849767343
|title=Count on Me
|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of the pages of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] basic 1-2-3 book. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest of the book, pointing those just starting out some of on the most gruesome moments in historynumbers journey. After some classic gallows humour and It isn't: it's a brief mention hymn of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamia. The book includes the Assyrians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish and Americanspraise to maths. It also covers several different periods of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20's, the first about why maths is so wonderful and second world wars, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulershow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1849767009|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead This could have been one of his time. He was writing those books that boys really wanted which 'preaches to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all choir': the efforts to close only people who'll buy it are the ever widening gender gap in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to read, but people who know that nudity is OK and the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made in the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 years. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ones who ''know'20 Horrible Years'that it' has addressed this issue s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes the books it into something so much more than a book about not only the type wearing clothes. It's a celebration of books that boys want to read, but also the type bodies: bodies large and small and of book that younger children or those every possible hue. Bodies with reading difficulties can readdisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1776572858|title=Awful Egyptians How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (Horrible Historiestranslator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It''Facts, facts s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and nothing but the facts'told me that she' - if this is your idea of d get me a history book - stop right hereabout it. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in A couple of days later I was handed a well laid out easy to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write the Horrible History as history books, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far pamphlet (which delivered nothing more history than he originally intendedthe basics, but they remain a collection of amusing stories and jokes, rather than a collection of dry facts. Deary in clinical language which had never intended his books to be been used to teach history - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to read, books our house before) and I was told that are both engaging and entertaining, and whether he intended it wouldn't be discussed any further as such or not - he has created a series it ''wasn't something which truly engages boys long before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want to learn nice people talked about history''. Children pick up Deary I 's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language of authority and the adult world'knew'' more, but in a as co-conspiratorwas little ''wiser''. They read his books because they are fun Thankfully, but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant to them, they actually do learn this as welltimes have changed. What's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for a history quiz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1526362759|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is What a favourite with both schools and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books to be used in education. He originally set out to write a joke relief! A bookabout money, based on a historical subjectfor children, but freed from the constraints with clear explanations of school - he discovered what so many it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of us have also found it (nope - history really robbing banks is fun. Instead of a joke book out) and what you can do with a bit it when you've managed to get hold of history, Deary ended up with a history book - with quite a lot of jokesit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. But these books were never intended as educational textsYou might want to go into business, they were written to entertainbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just thatthere might be something you really, it entertains both children and adults''really'' want to buy. It is difficult to read any of Deary There's books without learning something, but learning is incidental - also the possibility of using to do good in the fun comes firstworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson178112938X|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of It's fifty years since the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves Apollo 13 mission was launched from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stageKennedy Space Centre in Florida, tired out by but the excitement story of that journey remains one of his adventures. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning greatest survival stories of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concertall time. He scuttles down into ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a packed auditorium. At the end brilliant retelling of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encorewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</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.
|isbn= 0228818826
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1609809173|title=The Truth About LoveEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We are never too far from springtimeBrash and elegant, whensophisticated, of coursecontroversial and vibrant, a ''young manthe 1889 World's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love''. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young people's fancies turn to trivia about love customsFair in Paris encompassed the best, predictions of who they'll marry the worst and what the whole symbolism around love, Valentines beautiful from many countries and marriage meancultures. The emphasis is French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on young art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – this book is definitely suited for the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell niceEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1848576536|title=Alphasaurs Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Other Prehistoric TypesJem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I suppose you could describe any book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably clever, rhyming introduction''Get under your own skin, we enter the world of prehistory with Apick your brains, and exit with Z, having met 27 (yes, therego inside your insides!''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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip SteeleLangford_Emily|title=Discover the Awesome WorldEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back in 2011 I Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was impressed by [[Discover the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]what she loved best. I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. 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 presentthere's no limit to how far you can go, but with that book you needed to start at the opposite end of the scalethen 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 explained. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording was this list of odd numbers which drives the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages occurred when you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. Itcounted in threes which she called ''threeven's fun and (say it quietly) it's educational. Now I (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they'm not in re a subset of the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) odd numbers but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better sound as exactly the same comments apply though they ought to Discover be a subset of the Awesome Worldeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve MartinBuckingham_Dawn|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember StuffThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When What a treat! I look back on my school days it didnreally did mean to just 't seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping with I'm glance''amazedat '' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods The Little Book of jogging their memories. the Dawn Chorus'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy' gives them lots but the pull of ways the sounds of remembering a rich variety of facts, but also shows them how they can develop dozen different birds singing their own ways of helping their memoryhearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's a book I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about mnemonics such as rhymes, acrostics, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms the birds and wordplaylistening to their song. It's not Then - just the methods of remembering that are there because I could - there are I went back and did it all sorts of facts in with again and it was just as good the methodssecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah GoldschadtPankhurst_Women|title=Craft-A-Day: 365 Simple Handmade ProjectsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Looking back on my childhood the most useful skill I acquired was that A lot of making thingshistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. I was the daughter of a man who made a greenhouse out of a derelict busSometimes, so it was inevitable that something would rub off on me. Well over half a century later it still stands me feels almost as though there were no women in good stead: I can see ''how'' to make thingshistory at all, ''how'' let alone ones young girls might like to solve problems and my imagination was fired up at an early stageread about or regard as role models. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a bus-to-greenhouse converter in-houseOf course, but the best start is being encouraged to make things ''regularly'this isn' t true and learning that you don't always there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have to buy everything you needachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. A drum rollSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, please for Sarah Goldschadt's ''Craft-A-Day''are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745951</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy RipleyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2013Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You know it's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripley's Women in Sport''Believe is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It or Not'', celebrates a century and a half of the celebration development of all thatwomen's macabresport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, shockingcovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, gruesome and frequently downright revolting - and that's just the peoplemuch more. Just wait until you get to the non-human items. We don't usually cover annuals at Bookbag because they've frequently gone out Think of fashion before too many months have passed, but these books can be read year after year a sport and they're still going to make the average adult feel rather unwella pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Yes Each entry is a double- you're right. Kids are going to love itpage spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona FodenRooney_Dino|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 - 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>}} {{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Harriet Ziefert Anne Rooney and Liz Murphy|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A to ZSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I hope that children was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are not as fearful very familiar but some I'd never heard of going to before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the dentist as used regularly various dinosaurs are getting up to be the case, but even those who are unworried will benefit from this useful with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book directed mainly at the five to ten age groupcreates a dinosaur experience, although Irather than just being facts about dinosaurs it'm sure s very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that older children will find it of interest toospike your imagination. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but don't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RosenMason_poo|title=Fantastic Mr DahlThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Reading this book is rather like curling up in a deepI know, I know, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats sometimes you really don't want to you about books. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahlencourage your children's lifepoo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in read it by myself when the knowledge that you already kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and love the stories. Just silly) as well as important, he pauses in his chat from time to time to ask your opinion — being very interesting and it's clear he's really interested in your answereducational. Do you prefer the original version Using a mixture of ''James facts and the Giant Peach''figures, or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how photographs and funny it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom windowcartoons, like you come away having sniggered a little at the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>vulture 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.
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