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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers A World of SpaceDogs|author=Dominic Walliman Carlie Sorosiak and Ben NewmanLuisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first thing In the interests of full disclosure, I noticed about this book was the illustrationsmust tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. There is a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think of space race era film clips In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and early Flash Gordon comics. Perhaps it was the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than I've loved most of the books in our space collectionthem. I wish I was expecting this to be a fun light readfelt the same about human beings. It was certainly fun So, the whole family loved this any book, but it was anything but a light read. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading about themdogs, engaging the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etcI'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly.. We had to rearrange our entire school week And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety- and we still haven't finished six pages devoted entirely to my four- we have a number of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week as welllegged friends. This book is, without any doubt one Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of the most educational books we have ever read, all the while not only holding the childrenan American Dingo - she's interest, but completely captivating themlearned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book Of Space: All About Stars, Planets and Rockets!|author=Clive GiffordWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ThereI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's always my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a danger in putting a definitive article in the name of a childrenhard day, there's non-fiction book titlenothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitiveYou see, with a lot of numbers and facts, yet a delivery that makes all of those the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the theories memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and terminology it uses all palatable to the browser, experts spend as much time and still manages effort as is required to throw in achieve the redundant unfunny cartoons at the sidedesired result. In using an intelligent system of going through all the subjects under the broad subject of space, with none of Regular viewers know the tables, box-outs experts and so on other editors choose, this proves one of the more sober, measured and successful books of its kindthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014Stolen History|author=Robert Leroy RipleySathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I don't normally do annualswas the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because Idisputed the existence of a 'm afraid god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too many long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the silly cartoon variety put me off the genreBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, but this is something completely different. It seems a shame we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to even call it an annualbe there in the first place. Instead Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia of lacked the bizarre, unusual, twisted and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'Believe it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Horrid Henry's World RecordsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Francesca Simon Fritz and Tony RossKurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=My son chose this book because he does like Horrid HenryWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and he especially loves books with facts. As a parenttheir muckers, I have tried doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to supply my children with a wide choice of reading materialdo – kicking things around the empty market place, but I have to admithelping the neighbours, I have leaned more towards fiction than non fiction simply because I mistakenly assumed being dutiful when it would be more funcomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Girls do tend Kurt has to prefer fiction, so I based my choices upon my own childhood reading habitsmake sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But when my sons began this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to beg for keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''books a bout real thingsKristallnacht''happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, I saw as did all the error round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of my waysan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009214</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Dork Diaries OMG: All About Me Diary!Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Rachel Patrick Kelly, Renee RussellKelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I feel a pattern forming. After three books in ''Britannica's Word of the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came Day'' has a throwsub-away, [[Dork Diariestitle: How ''366 Elevating Utterances to Dork Stretch Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-in volume]] Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that offered a bit of a story you need to it but was not full-on plot and action like the routine books. After six real novels comes know about this, where for the first time the star of the brilliant book really is not Nikki Maxwell. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', but whoever buys tells you how to pronounce it (or gets it bought for them''raz-muh-TAZ''). This is where the franchise branches away from fiction, to cover the purchaser or fan of the series, gives you a definition and gives her then includes the chance to spill about herself, her school life, word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and her BFFsfrequently amusing illustration too. I don't think this is where I'm supposed to go ''SQUEEEEEEE!!!ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!!!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=100 PeopleThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Masayuki SebeMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=OK, I'll admit – sometimes there comes have recently discovered a time when it would appear terribly easy to post a review great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a book, when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessarydaily basis. And you An hour can judge pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes ground, which pop to the ''Top Ten feeders for a quick snatch of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ash, some food and makes it funkier, smaller, who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more brashly colourful, and apparently, suitable for boysknowledgeable. There are unofficialIt would have been wonderful if, opinionated listsas a child, and bits where kids can scribble their own content and ratings. But despite how easy it is I'd had access to get a handle on the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, and just such as I should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lot''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Make a MobileVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Lydia CrookIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Make seems to have become a Mobile'' is 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 delightful crafting book crammed full of projects for parents clear and children accessible introduction to sharethe world of germs. The book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and are surprisingly easy to makehow the thinking has developed over time. The perforated pages allow vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the components of each mobile to trickiest concepts and you'll soon be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillsfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title=Space 100 Ways in 30 Seconds100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Clive Gifford and Dr Mike GoldsmithEmma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a lad''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 reading books comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on space science from my entry to school libraryis a strong predictor of later achievement, they were nothing like this. There was little double that was as colourful, no recap for every page, no homework suggestions, and certainly there was nothing as up-to-date as exoplanets or the latest dimensions of the International Space Station. Many of the changes are valuable, and make this volume quite a successliteracy skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</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|isbn=1406395404|title=Myths in 30 SecondsThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Anita GaneriNicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Back when 2020 has been a strange year: I was a lad, doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and reading books on mythology from my school library, they were nothing like for some teenagers thiswill have brought about sleep problems. There was no fullSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -colourI've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, no recaps, no homework suggestions, and certainly 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 was not 's also the global PC-flavoured reach fact that broadened things out from Greekfor far too long, Roman lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and the occasional bit of Norse mythsleep made to seem like laziness. You'll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for Being up early, working late has been praised and the betterability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Paper PlayCount on Me|author=Lydia CrookMiguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Paper Play is a virtual time machine, taking us back to an era before the PC, tablet The title and games console, when children had the ability format of this book might lead you to amuse themselves think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for hours with those just starting out on the numbers journey. It isn't: it's a few sheets hymn of paper, some scissors and some gluepraise to maths. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation, arming creative minds with a seemingly endless supply of crafting ideas, including paper dress-up dolls, flying contraptions It's about why maths is so wonderful and finger puppetshow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1849767009|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itThis could have been one of those books which 's alway a good idea preaches to have plans about activities which will involve and interest children. In the choir': the only people who'Craft ll buy it Up Around are the Worldpeople who know that nudity is OK and the ones who '' weknow've got thirty five suggestions for projects which ' that it's shameful will keep children entertainedavoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. As the title suggests weBut... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It're going on s a world tour celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and you can pick the projects to suit other activities you have plannedof every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basisthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Keith WestAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as d get me a dyslexia friendly line book about it. A couple of books. Instead, these are what is known as hi-lo books. Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade level. days later 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 was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more appropriate to children with dyslexia than the average children's book. With the exception of a few small picture captionsbasics, this is printed in black ink with a large standard font. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and chapters giving the reader plenty of breaks. The paper is thick enough I was told that print and pictures from the other side will not show throughit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. This combined with the easy to read text will help to build a child I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''s confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal Dixon1526362759|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The What a relief! A book starts about money, for children, with a simple question. How would we copeclear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and were around today? Theywhat you can do with it when you're put in context, going back ve managed to the beginnings get hold of Planet Earth four and it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a half billion years ago saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and working forward there might be something you really, ''really'' want to show how life evolved and asking if buy. There's also the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them possibility of using to survive today. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked at do good in some detailthe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr178112938X|title=Judith Kerr's CreaturesSurvival in Space: A Celebration of the Life The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Work of Judith KerrStefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyDyslexia Friendly|summary=In childrenIt's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliablefifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but always impressive. One the story of that journey remains one of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]. For decades she's been delighting our children (and grandchildren) but it still came as something the greatest survival stories of a surprise to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013all time. To celebrate this, Harper Collins have published ''Creatures'' Survival in which Judith tells not just her own story but that of the ''creaturesSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission'' - the characters in her books and her family - who have contributed to her inspirational life. It is, though, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection brilliant retelling of paintings, drawings and memorabiliawhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharky Kathleen Boucher and GeorgeSara Chadwick|title=Don't You DareNine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=My sons love stories of unsolved mysteries, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a very strong leaning towards the nonself-fiction side of things. This help book is for children who want tweens, setting out to know how the legends were born, if any of the creatures could be real, and what the science behind the story isshow them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I do feel this book know there is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation to the old stories, but my youngest did enjoy it as well. It might be useful market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for a child with a slight fear of monsters to get a more realistic view of themyoung adults too, but I would use caution with there is a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to be afraid ofyounger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk Science1609809173|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Do Try This At Home - Cook It!!'' is a funBrash and elegant, very boy friendly ( but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipessophisticated, science facts controversial and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in this book includes science facts Paris encompassed the best, the worst and 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 informationbeautiful from many countries and cultures. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hardThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, but makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion isput on art shows, why onions make us crydance performances, how yeast worksfood festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, how the most popular and the most hated monument to make a bouncing rubber-like egg French accomplishment and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalinedaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848576536
|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamLangford_Emily|title=Rescuing GusEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham was Emily found words ''convinceduseful'' that , but counting was what she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''lovedbest. Obviously, you can count anything and there'' dogs have been born s no limit to parents whohow far you can go, well, wouldn't have them but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in the house? twos. She wasn't knew all about odd and even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatenumbers. Melissa wouldn't be able to have a dog until Then she had a home began counting in threes: half of her own the list were even numbers, but in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home other half was odd and it was there that this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she met Guscalled ''threeven''. He wasn(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they't in re a subset of the first flush of youth and his breath was odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a weapon subset of mass destructionthe even numbers, but he and Melissa bonded and it all worked out well when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homeI really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin BrownBuckingham_Dawn|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Horrible HistoriesWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at '' catch phrase is History - with all The Little Book of the nasty bits left in. This is not completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a childrenDawn Chorus''s book with details which are too graphic for children, but this is without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome pull of all the sounds of the Horrible Histories books we have reada dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. While I am happy enough spent an indulgent hour or so reading most of all about the Horrible Histories books birds and listening to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year old, their song. Then - just because I could - I do think this one is best for the older children, would recommend a minimum age of 7, went back and did it all again and this only if it was just as good the child is already aware of the Holocaustsecond time around. So, or the parent is prepared to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further information. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul MoranPankhurst_Women|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and imagines what politicians. Sometimes, it would be feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like if humans had an equivalent behaviour, ability, to read about or physical featureregard as role models. For instance, if we had teeth like a sharkOf course, we wouldnthis isn't have to worry about eating too many sweetstrue and there are plenty of women who, brushing our teeththroughout history, have achieved amazing things or even chomping down on a hard object. Whenever a tooth fell outshown incredible bravery, a new one would take its placeor created something never seen before. If we had the comparative strength of a Hercules beetleSo here, we could lift a double decker busin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, and if we could jump are the equivalent stories of a froghopper insect, we'd be able to leap over sky scrapers with ease. Not all some of the animal traits would be so much fun thoughthem. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan SnowIgnotofsky_Sport|title=How Dinosaurs Really WorkWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It’s sometimes difficult ''Women in Sport'' is coming to find books which appeal to reluctant readersus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, particularly boys. Three cheersriding, thenskating, for Alan Snow who has produced and much more. Think of a sport and a really smashing pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book about those ever-popular dinosaurssomewhere. Here Each entry is a book which will appeal not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phase, double-page spread with a brief biography and also to more struggling readers, a little later on. This is exactly the sort of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their matesstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonRooney_Dino|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War IIDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Tony Robinson's Weird World Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of Wonders is an informativedinosaurs, easy to read book for children covering WW2. I would describe it as something of a cross between we meet a school text book and Terry Deary's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought variety of any creatures, some of his books being crossed with a text book. This isnwhom are very familiar but some I't quite factsd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, facts and nothing but showing you what the factsvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, it does break things up with humourbackground noises, but I would describe this as roars and squawks to accompany them! The book meant to teach historycreates a dinosaur experience, unlike Dearyrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's books which I would describe as books which make reading funvery visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and just happen to inform children on history as wellgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Mason_poo
|title=The Poo That Animals Do
|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want 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 didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the 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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