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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Discover the Savage A Worldof Dogs|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist Carlie Sorosiak and Amanda AskewLuisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range In the interests of subjects covered in full disclosure, I must tell you that I''Discover the Savage World'' is astonishingm a sucker for dogs. The first three chapters are science related topics. The first section In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'Earth's Power't trust and I' covers the birth ve loved most of the universe, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disastersthem. '' Deadly Nature'' brings new meaning to the phrase ''acting like animals'', as we see I wish I felt the darker side of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise same about a very common and well known birdhuman beings. ''Wild Science'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements So, explosionsany book about dogs, fireworks I'm going to sit down and exactly how a bullet works, as well as the birth of a stardevour. Then I''Tough Machines'' dips into technology and innovation with an incredible variety of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles and diggers, m going to robots, military vehicles, ice breaking ships, rockets, go back and flood control systemsread it properly. The focus turns to geography And so it was with ''Harsh LandsA World of Dogs'' show a myriad of cultures and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl and land mines occur as well. Finally we close with history and ''Brutal Battles''ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. This covers ancient warfare with events such as Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the Battle accidental owner of Marathon and the Siege of Masada right up to the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with an American Dingo - she's learned quite a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle of Kursklot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space|author=Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The first thing I noticed about this book was the illustrations. There is a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think of space race era film clips and early Flash Gordon comics. Perhaps it was the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most of the books in our space collection. I was expecting this to be a fun light read. It was certainly fun, the whole family loved this book, but it was anything but a light read. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading about them, engaging the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etc... We had to rearrange our entire school week - and we still haven't finished - we have a number of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week as well. This book is, without any doubt one of the most educational books we have ever read, all the while not only holding the children's interest, but completely captivating them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1529507987|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=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If I told you this was have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a book in daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which every double page spread features exactly 100 peoplespecies feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and there’s no real story to go with it, you might be underwhelmedwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. You might wonder what the point It would be. But have been wonderful if, as a child, I can tell you in one word: fun'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579866</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Top 10 For Boys 2014Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Paul TerryIsabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=OK, I'll admit – sometimes there comes a time when it would appear terribly easy Germs' seems to post a review of have become a book, when something so selfcatch-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessaryall word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. And you can judge In the contents of this first book similarly easily too – it takes the ''Top Ten of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ashin what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and makes it funkier, smaller, more brashly colourful, Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and apparently, suitable for boysaccessible introduction to the world of germs. There are unofficial, opinionated lists, We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and bits where kids can scribble their own content what they thought caused them and ratingshow the thinking has developed over time. But despite how easy it is to get The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a handle on scientist' which explains some of the booktrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every wordfungi, protists and viruses – and just as I how we should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lotprotect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</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|isbn=1406395404|title=Make a MobileThe Awesome Power of Sleep: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Lydia CrookNicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''Make 2020 has been a Mobilestrange 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' is a delightful crafting book crammed full of projects for parents ve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to shareadults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The book contains 12 unique designs And there's also the fact that fit together beautifully for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and are surprisingly easy sleep made to makeseem like laziness. The perforated pages allow Being up early, working late has been praised and the components of each mobile ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillsput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Space in 30 SecondsCount on Me|author=Clive Gifford and Dr Mike GoldsmithMiguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a lad, The title and reading books on space science from my school library, they were nothing like format of this. There was little book might lead you to think that was as colourful, no recap for every page, no homework suggestions, and certainly there was nothing as upit's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-to2-date as exoplanets or 3 book for those just starting out on the latest dimensions numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of the International Space Stationpraise to maths. Many of the changes are valuable, It's about why maths is so wonderful and make this volume quite a successhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Myths in 30 SecondsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Anita GaneriRosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Back when I was a lad, This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and reading books on mythology from my school library, the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they were nothing like thisavoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. There was no full-colour, no recaps, no homework suggestions, It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and certainly there was not the global PC-flavoured reach that broadened things out from Greek, Roman small and the occasional bit of Norse mythevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. YouThey'll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes arenre fine. In fact, they't completely for the betterre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Paper PlayHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Lydia CrookAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=Paper Play is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a virtual time machine, taking us back to an era before pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the PC, tablet and games consolebasics, when children in clinical language which had the ability to amuse themselves for hours with a few sheets of paper, some scissors never been used in our house before) and some glueI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation I ''knew'' more, arming creative minds with a seemingly endless supply of crafting ideas, including paper dress-up dollsbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, flying contraptions and finger puppetstimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1526362759|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along What a relief! A book about money, for children, with uncertain British weather clear explanations of what itis, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you's alway a good idea ve managed to have plans about activities which will involve and interest childrenget hold of it. In 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 saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, 'Craft it Up Around the World'really' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertainedwant to buy. As the title suggests weThere're going on a world tour and you can pick s also the projects possibility of using to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basisdo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Keith WestDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It''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. Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade level. I would estimate s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the reading level of this book to be roughly age eightKennedy Space Centre in Florida, 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 story of that journey remains one 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 greatest survival stories of breaksall time. ''Survival in Space: The paper Apollo 13 Mission'' 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 confidencebrilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</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=Dougal Dixon1609809173|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The book starts with a simple question. How would we copeBrash and elegant, sophisticated, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct controversial and were around today? Theyvibrant, the 1889 World're put s Fair in contextParis encompassed the best, going back to the beginnings of Planet Earth four worst and the beautiful from many countries and a half billion years ago cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and working forward concerts to show how life evolved stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them most hated monument to survive today. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers French accomplishment and flying reptiles - are then looked at in some detaildaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</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=Sharky and GeorgeLangford_Emily|title=DonEmily't You Dares Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise a great many of Sharky Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and Georgethere's ideas from our own childhood gamesno limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the days other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when childrenyou counted in threes which she called ''threeven''s games usually did take place outdoors. Most of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in Actually, this book), cops and robbers, boxes with confused me a pen and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed little bit at first as they're a stone or built subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a dam in childhood. So you might ask - why do need a book to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact issubset of the even numbers, most of these games are rapidly being forgotten. but it all worked out well when I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide and seek gamesreally thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Davide Cali and Gabrriella GiandelliBuckingham_Dawn|title=Monsters The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and LegendsAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My sons love stories What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of unsolved mysteries, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of things. This book is for children who want to know how the legends were born, if any 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 creatures could be real, birds and what the science behind the story islistening to their song. Then - just because I could - I do feel this book is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation to the old stories, but my youngest went back and did enjoy it all again and it was just as wellgood the second time around. It might be useful for a child with a slight fear of monsters to So, what do you get a more realistic view of them, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things to be afraid of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk SciencePankhurst_Women|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Do Try This At Home - Cook It!!'' A lot of history is a fun, very boy friendly ( but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts about men. Kings and generals and inventors and a few science experiments with foodpoliticians. Not every recipe Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in this book includes science facts and in some the science bit is limited history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to mentioning vitamins read about or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruitregard as role models. Of course, or a water chestnut this isn't really a nut. But other recipes true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hardachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, but makes cheese softeror created something never seen before. Children will learn what an emulsion isSo here, why onions make us cryin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalineare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn MurphyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains and SupertrainsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains and Supertrains ''Women in Sport'' is divided into eight sections. The first four sections are questions on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, coming to us just before the human brain, natural disasters and finally transportWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The following four sections are much longer It celebrates a century and provide not only a half of the answers to the previous sectionsdevelopment of women' questionss sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, but a detailedskating, scientific explanation in clear easy to understand language that even my four year old can usually followand much more. These answers are very well written and quite interesting to both Think of my children, a sport and even as an adult I found a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this both educational and entertainingbook somewhere. I have to admit, I learned Each entry is a double-page spread with a few things from this book as well, brief biography and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge of the human brain before bringing this out againa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamRooney_Dino|title=Rescuing GusDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born to parents whoa child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, wellthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, wouldn't have them in the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificate. Melissa wouldn't be able to have we meet a dog until she had a home variety of creatures, some of her own whom are very familiar but in some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the meantime she got various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a job at Battersea Dogs' Home and dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was there that she met Gus. He wasn't s very visual, placing the dinosaurs in the first flush of youth their habitats and his breath was a weapon of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homegiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin BrownMason_poo|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes and imagines what it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviourI know, abilityI know, or physical feature. For instance, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldnsometimes you really don't have want 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 of a Hercules beetle, we could lift a double decker busencourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and if we could jump read it by myself when the equivalent of a froghopper insect, we'd be able kids had gone to leap over sky scrapers with ease. Not all of the animal traits would be school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much fun though. We wouldnI didn't want our parents know about poo? The book manages to eat us if we were not be both funny (and silly) as strong well as our siblings like the volebeing very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and while eyes funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on our hands like its own feet but also knowing a starfish might have a few advantageslot about different types of poo, why poos smell, it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>and why wombats do square poos.
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