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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
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|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 planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basisgo back and read it properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Read On - Unsolved Mysteries|author=Keith West|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= And so it was with ''Collins Read OnA World of Dogs'' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line of books. Instead, these are what is known as hiwith ninety-lo books. Book developed six pages devoted entirely to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade levelmy four-legged friends. I would estimate Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the reading level accidental owner 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 childrenan American Dingo - she's book. With the exception of learned quite 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 confidencelot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal Dixon1529507987|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1800464495
|title= 100 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''
Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' 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 Deary and Martin Brown1406395404|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with all the nasty bits left inthat statement. This is not Lots of our routines have been completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children's book with details which are too graphic dismantled and for children, but some teenagers this is without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome of all of the Horrible Histories books we will have readbrought about sleep problems. While Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books 've got loads to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year oldbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, I do think this one from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is best only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for the older childrenfar too long, would recommend lack of sleep has been lauded as a minimum age of 7virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and this only if the child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further informationput on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Moran1849767343|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes The title and imagines what format of this book might lead you to think that it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviour, ability, or physical feature. For instance, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldn't have to worry s either about eating too many sweets, brushing our teeth, responsibility - or even chomping down on it's a hard object. Whenever a tooth fell basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out, a new one would take its placeon the numbers journey. If we had the comparative strength of a Hercules beetle, we could lift It isn't: it's a double decker bus, and if we could jump the equivalent hymn of a froghopper insect, we'd be able praise to leap over sky scrapers with easemaths. Not all of the animal traits would be It's about why maths is 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, wonderful and while eyes on our hands like a starfish might have a few advantages, how you meet it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Snow1849767009|title=How Dinosaurs Really WorkIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=It’s sometimes difficult to find This could have been one of those books which appeal 'preaches to reluctant readers, particularly boys. Three cheers, then, for Alan Snow the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who has produced a really smashing book about those ever''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-popular dinosaursbothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Here is But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book which will appeal about not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phase, and also to more struggling readers, a little later onwearing clothes. This is exactly the sort It's a celebration of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something bodies: bodies large and small and of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their matesevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1776572858|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War IIHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Tony RobinsonIt's Weird World of Wonders is an informative, easy to read book for children covering WW2more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. I would describe it as something of a cross between a school text book My mother was deeply embarrassed and Terry Dearytold me that she's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought of any of his books being crossed with d get me a text bookabout it. This isn't quite facts, facts and A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing but more than the factsbasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it does break things up with humour, but I would describe this wouldn't be discussed any further as book meant to teach history, unlike Dearyit ''wasn's books t something which nice people talked about''. I would describe as books which make reading fun''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, and just happen to inform children on history as welltimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1526362759|title=The Beastly Best Bits (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=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with What 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]] relief! A book. Our friendly executioner will be our guide about money, for the rest children, with clear explanations of the bookwhat it is, why it matters, pointing how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out some ) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of the most gruesome moments in historyit. After Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some classic gallows humour and a brief mention of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamiaextent. The book includes the Assyrians You might want to go into business, Sumeriansbe a clever shopper, Persiansa saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish and Americans''really'' want to buy. It There's also covers several different periods the possibility of English history, gangsters using to do good in The Roaring 20's, the first and second world wars, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary178112938X|title=Terrifying Tudors Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Horrible Historiesillustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=IIt've always thought Terry Deary was s fifty years ahead of his time. He since the Apollo 13 mission was writing books that boys really wanted to read many years before launched from the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all the efforts to close the ever widening gender gap Kennedy Space Centre in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to readFlorida, but the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made in story of that journey remains one of the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 yearsgreatest survival stories of all time. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible YearsSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' has addressed this issue and makes the books not only the type is a brilliant retelling of books that boys want to read, but also the type of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</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=Terry Deary1609809173|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''FactsBrash and elegant, sophisticated, facts controversial and nothing but vibrant, the facts'' - if this is your idea of a history book - stop right here. Terry Deary1889 World's Horrible Histories do contain facts, Fair in a well laid out easy to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write Paris encompassed the Horrible History as history booksbest, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain a collection of amusing stories the worst and jokes, rather than a collection of dry facts. Deary never intended his books to be used to teach history - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him offbeautiful from many countries and cultures. He set The French Republic laid out to write books that children wanted to readmodel villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, books that are both engaging and entertainingdance performances, food festivals and whether he intended it as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want concerts to learn about historystun the senses. Children pick up Deary's books because he speaks directly to themAnd towering above it all, not in the language of authority most popular and the adult world, but in a as co-conspirator. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining most hated monument to French accomplishment and relevant to them, they actually do learn this as well. What's more, they remember it unlike daring – the facts they might memorise for a history quizEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1848576536|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is 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 book''Get under your own skin, based on a historical subject, but freed from the constraints of school - he discovered what so many of us have also found - history really is fun. Instead of a joke book with a bit of history, Deary ended up with a history book - with quite a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertainpick your brains, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just that, it entertains both children and adults. It is difficult to read any of Dearygo inside your insides!''s books without learning something, but learning is incidental - the fun comes first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghLangford_Emily|title=The Truth About LoveEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We are never too far from springtime, when, of course, a Emily found words ''young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of loveuseful'', but counting was what she loved best. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young peopleObviously, you can count anything and there's fancies turn no limit to trivia how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about love customs, predictions odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of who they'll marry and what the whole symbolism around lovelist were even numbers, Valentines but the other half was odd and marriage meanit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. The emphasis is on young – (Actually, this book is definitely suited for confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the primary school libraryodd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, although he slips up once but it all worked out well when asking if we think our partners smell niceI really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Sharon Werner Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Sarah Nelson ForssWildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric TypesFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I suppose you could describe any book A lot of history is about dinosaurs men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as being sixty-five million years though there were no women in the makinghistory at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. What is definite is that Of course, this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably cleverisn't true and there are plenty of women who, rhyming introductionthroughout history, we enter the world of prehistory with Ahave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and exit with Zor created something never seen before. So here, having met 27 (yesin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, there's a surprise guest entrant) animals along are the way. And the way we meet stories of some of them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike DilgerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Wild Town (RSPB)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|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) to look? 'Women in Sport'Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desert, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves - is coming to us just before the book describes animals, and some plants, to be found Winter Olympics in South Korea in eachFebruary 2018. You'll be amazed at what's out there. And you'll find out It celebrates a lot about century and a teeming natural world right on your doorstep. It will tell you half of the best places to spot animals and plants - anddevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, thanks to the wonderful photographyskating, you'll have no trouble recognising them once you're thereand much more. From the iconic foxes and badgers to the less well known species Think of bird, amphibian a sport and insect, a pioneering woman succeeding at it's all there is probably in all its diversity this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and beautya striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip SteeleRooney_Dino|title=Discover the Awesome WorldDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back in 2011 Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was impressed by [[Discover the Extreme World a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by Camilla de la Bedoyerelayer, Clive Giffordthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, John Farndonwe meet a variety of creatures, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]. some of whom are very familiar but some I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. It would have had a lot more text'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, been rather dull – and remained largely unread layer by those who received it as a worthy presentlayer, but with that book showing you needed to start at what the opposite end of the scale. It's about visual impact. A fact is linked various dinosaurs are getting up to a picture , with background noises, roars and the more striking the better – and only then is it explained. squawks to accompany them! The text is as simple as possible – clearbook creates a dinosaur experience, unambiguous wording which drives the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun and (say it quietly) rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's educational. Now I'm not very visual, placing the dinosaurs in the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know their habitats and giving us sounds too that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Worldspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve MartinMason_poo|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember StuffThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I look back on my school days it didnknow, I know, sometimes you really don't seem terribly complicatedwant to encourage your children'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 see what my grandchildren are coping with Ididn'm ''amazed'' at all that they have t know about poo? The book manages to rememberbe both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. They need to have methods of jogging their memories. 'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy' gives them lots of ways of remembering Using a rich variety mixture of factsand figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also shows them how they can develop their own ways of helping their memory. It's knowing a book lot about mnemonics such as rhymesdifferent types of poo, acrosticswhy poos smell, 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 methodswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>
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