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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Kelly1839948493|title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination World of John F KennedyDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I have 'm a vivid memory sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of hearing them. I wish I felt the same about the assassination of John F Kennedyhuman beings. He was youngSo, any book about dogs, charismatic and a hope for the future after the old guard who seemed I'm going to have been in power for ever - sit down and then he was gonedevour. Books on JFK are easy to find - youThen I'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]], but it's rather more difficult m going to find a book which puts Kennedy go back and what happened into context, read it properly. And so I it was delighted to receive a copy with ''A World of Dogs'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination ', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of John F Kennedyan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries of the WorldThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Richard HammondWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=Have you ever wondered whether or not the Loch Ness Monster actually exists? What about the Abominable Snowman? Do you think about what really goes on inside the Bermuda Triangle? Well, donI love ''t expect a definitive answer from Richard HammondThe Repair Shop's '. It'Great Mysteries of the Worlds my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You'll have see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to make up your the people who own mind after being presented with them and the argumentsmemories they hold. You'll need No expense appears to marshal your brainpower. There are eighteen mysteries here, arranged within four topics - Weird Waters, Alien Encounters, Creepy Creatures be spared and the experts spend as much time and Ancient Treasureseffort as is required to achieve the desired result. All Regular viewers know the biggies are hereexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Deadly Detectives: Top Tips to Track WildlifeStolen History|author=Steve BackshallSathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Steve Backshall is best known for his Deadly 60 seriesI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, which focuses on deadly predatorsit was probably worse still. This book has plenty Not too long after the end of predators from all around WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the worldBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, but it also includes many less dangerous creatures, including a fair amount we didn't dwell on animals those) in what came to be called 'the UKcolonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Tracking a fox may not sound as exciting as tracking a leopard Looking back, I still believe I was right - but it something many children may find a chance I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do in – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the UKneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and Steve at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very helpfully shows Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the reader how Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to differentiate between a fox print Hitler's will, and that instead of having a dognational vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. The book has several other footprint illustrations ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, teaching children subtle differences between may types as did all the round-ups of printsJews. It even had crab These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and bird prints his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to look Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for at the seaside. But adult variant of all this is about so much more than tracking and footprints.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006436</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Bones RockBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Peter L Larson Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Kristin DonnanSue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most children go through a dinosaur phase, but there are always ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a few children who are completely captivated by dinosaurs sub- title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and everything Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that goes with them. This is the most detailed palaeontology you need to know about this brilliant book for children I have ever found. This book is written for older children, even teens who may wish to seriously consider palaeontology as a career choice. The book begins, not It starts on January 1st with dinosaurs''Razzmatazz'', but with science. The book explains tells you how science works. It presents scienceto pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), not as gives you a set of facts, but of theories definition and ideas then includes the word in a sentence so that are subject to changeyou know how it should be used. Science becomes a living You also get an engaging and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts to memorisefrequently amusing illustration too. Reading this book, I can almost forget how much don't think I hated science as 've ever encountered a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)The Secret Life of Birds|author=Jim EldridgeMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing was one I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of Britainbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I's greatest thinkers ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of the last century. He did pioneering work on computing some food and artificial intelligencewho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. He was also It would have been wonderful if, as a hero of World War IIchild, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used I'd had access to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machinea book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreview|title=How the Meteorite Got to the Museum|author=Jessie Hartland|rating=4|genre=For SharingFrontpage|summaryisbn=This is a cumulative tale in which one small event sets off a chain of other events which are repeated throughout the story. If your child loves books like ''This is the House That Jack Built'', this may prove a very useful addition to you home library, but this is a type of story telling which I have found some children really take to, and others do not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0192779230|title=Discover the Savage Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible Worldof Germs|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist and Amanda AskewIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range of subjects covered in 'Germs'Discover seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Savage World'' is astonishingpotential to make you ill. The first three chapters are science related topics. The In the first section ''Earth's Power'' covers the birth of the universe, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters. '' Deadly Nature'' brings new meaning book in what looks to the phrase ''acting like animals'', as we see the darker side of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise about be a very common promising new series, OUP and well known bird. ''Wild Science'' has Isabel Thomas have provided a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements, explosions, fireworks clear and exactly how a bullet works, as well as accessible introduction to the birth world of a stargerms. ''Tough Machines'' dips into technology and innovation with We get an incredible variety of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and diggers, to robots, military vehicles, ice breaking ships, rockets, what they thought caused them and flood control systemshow the thinking has developed over time. The focus turns to geography with vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Harsh Lands'' show a myriad which explains some of cultures and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl the trickiest concepts and land mines occur as well. Finally we close with history and ''Brutal Battles'you'. This covers ancient warfare ll soon be familiar with events such as the Battle of Marathon bacteria, fungi, protists and the Siege of Masada right up to the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with a heavy focus on snipers viruses – and the Battle of Kurskhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</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=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers The Awesome Power of SpaceSleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Dominic Walliman and Ben NewmanNicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=The first thing 2020 has been a strange year: I noticed about this book was the illustrationsdoubt anyone would argue with that statement. There is a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think Lots of space race era film clips our routines have been completely dismantled and early Flash Gordon comicsfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Perhaps it was the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most of the books in our space collection. 'who needs sleep? - I was expecting this 've got loads to be a fun light readdoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. It was certainly fun Most people, from children to adults will have the whole family loved this book, odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it was anything but a light readworse. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading about them, engaging And there's also the entire family in debates on spacefact that for far too long, 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 lack of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week sleep has been lauded as wella virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. This book is Being up early, without any doubt one of working late has been praised and the most educational books we have ever read, all the while not only holding the children's interest, but completely captivating themability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=The Book Of Space: All About Stars, Planets and Rockets!Count on Me|author=Clive GiffordMiguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ThereThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's always a danger in putting a definitive article in the name of a childreneither about responsibility - or it's nona basic 1-2-fiction 3 book titlefor those just starting out on the numbers journey. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitive, with a lot of numbers and facts, yet It isn't: it's a delivery that makes all hymn of those and the theories and terminology it uses all palatable to the browser, and still manages praise to throw in the redundant unfunny cartoons at the sidemaths. In using an intelligent system of going through all the subjects under the broad subject of space, with none of the tables, box-outs and It's about why maths is so on other editors choose, this proves one of the more sober, measured wonderful and successful books of its kindhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=RipleyIt Isn's Believe It or Not! 2014t Rude to be Nude|author=Robert Leroy RipleyRosie Haine
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I donThis 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 the ones who ''know''t normally do annuals. Ithat it'm afraid too many of s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the silly cartoon variety put me off hot-and-bothered person in the genre, but this supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something completely differentso much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It seems 's a shame to even call it an annualcelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia of the bizarre, unusual, twisted Bodies with disabilities and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you to markings. They'Believe it or not!re fine. In fact, they'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>re wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Horrid Henry's World RecordsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Francesca Simon Anna Fiske and Tony RossDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My son chose this mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book because he does like Horrid Henry, and he especially loves books with factsabout it. As a parent, A couple of days later I have tried to supply my children with was handed a wide choice of reading material, but I have to admit, I have leaned pamphlet (which delivered nothing more towards fiction than non fiction simply because the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I mistakenly assumed was told that it would wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more fun. Girls do tend to prefer fiction, so I based my choices upon my own childhood reading habits. But when my sons began to beg for but was little ''books a bout real thingswiser''. Thankfully, I saw the error of my waystimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009214</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dork Diaries OMGDosh: All About Me Diary!How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rachel Renee RussellRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I feel What a pattern forming. relief! After three books in the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came a throw-awayA book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, [[Dork Diaries: How how to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-in volume]] that offered a bit acquire more of a story to it but was not full(nope -on plot robbing banks is out) and action like the routine bookswhat you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. After six real novels comes this, where Your reasons for the first time the star of the book really is not Nikki Maxwell, but whoever buys wanting money don't matter: we all need it (or gets it bought for them)to some extent. This is where the franchise branches away from fictionYou might want to go into business, to cover the purchaser or fan of the seriesbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and gives her the chance to spill about herselfthere might be something you really, her school life, and her BFFs. I think this is where I'm supposed to go 'really'SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!'want to buy. There'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>s also the possibility of using to do good in the world.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=100 PeopleSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Masayuki SebeDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If I told you this was ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book in which every double page spread features exactly 100 peoplefor tweens, and there’s no real story setting out to go with it, you might be underwhelmed. You might wonder what the point would beshow them vital #lifeskills. But Don't groan! I can tell you 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 one word: funan increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1877579866</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Top 10 For Boys 20141609809173|author=Paul Terry|rating=4|genretitle=ChildrenEiffel's Non-Fiction|summary=OK, I'll admit – sometimes there comes a time when it would appear terribly easy to post a review of a book, when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessary. And you can judge the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes the ''Top Ten of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ash, and makes it funkier, smaller, more brashly colourful, and apparently, suitable Tower for boys. There are unofficial, opinionated lists, and bits where kids can scribble their own content and ratings. But despite how easy it is to get a handle on the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, and just as I should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Make a Mobile: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangYoung People|author=Lydia CrookJill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a ladBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and reading books on space science vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from my school library, they were nothing like thismany countries and cultures. There was little that was as colourfulThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, no recap for every pageput on art shows, no homework suggestionsdance performances, food festivals and certainly there was nothing as up-concerts to-date as exoplanets or stun the latest dimensions of senses. And towering above it all, the International Space Station. Many of most popular and the changes are valuable, most hated monument to French accomplishment and make this volume quite a successdaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Myths in 30 SecondsHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Anita GaneriNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a lad, and reading books on mythology from my school library, they were nothing like this. There was no full-colour, no recaps, no homework suggestions''Get under your own skin, and certainly there was not the global PC-flavoured reach that broadened things out from Greekpick your brains, Roman and the occasional bit of Norse myth. Yougo inside your insides!'ll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath ArmstrongLangford_Emily|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's alway no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a good idea to have plans step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about activities which will involve odd and interest childreneven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Craft it Up Around the World'threeven' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertained. As the title suggests we(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're going on a world tour and you can pick subset of the projects odd numbers but sound as though they ought to suit other activities you have planned, as be a reminder subset of a holiday or just on a random basisthe even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Keith WestCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''Collins Read Onat '' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line The Little Book 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 the reading level of this book to be roughly age eight, Dawn Chorus'' but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like pull of 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 sounds of a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink with dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a large standard fontcold and rather wet February morning. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and chapters giving the reader plenty of breakslistening to their song. The paper is thick enough that print Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and pictures from it was just as good the other side will not show throughsecond time around. This combined with the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal DixonPankhurst_Women|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The book starts with a simple questionA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. How would we copeSometimes, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct and it feels almost as though there were around today? They're put no women in contexthistory at all, going back let alone ones young girls might like to the beginnings read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of Planet Earth four and a half billion years ago and working forward to show how life evolved and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them to survive todaywomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eatersSo here, meat-eatersin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked at in the stories of some detailof them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Judith Kerr's CreaturesWomen in Sport: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a great many half of Sharky and George's ideas from our own childhood games, in the days when childrendevelopment of women's games usually did take place outdoors. Most sport by looking at fifty of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book)its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, cops and robbersfencing, boxes with a pen and paperriding, made drip sand castlesskating, skimmed and much more. Think of a stone or built sport and a dam pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in childhoodthis book somewhere. So you might ask Each entry is a double- why do need page spread with a book to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact is, most of these games are rapidly being forgotten. I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide brief biography and seek gamesa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Davide Cali and Gabrriella GiandelliRooney_Dino|title=Monsters Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and LegendsSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=My sons love stories 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 unsolved mysteriesdinosaurs, monsters and mythical we meet a variety of creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has a some of whom are very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side familiar but some I'd never heard of things. This book is for children who want to know how the legends were bornbefore! Each scene peels open, if any of the creatures could be reallayer by layer, and showing you what the science behind the story is. I do feel this book is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation various dinosaurs are getting up to the old stories, but my youngest did enjoy it as well. It might be useful for a child with a slight fear of monsters background noises, roars and squawks to get accompany them! The book creates a more realistic view of themdinosaur experience, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it might just give them more things to be afraid of's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk ScienceMason_poo|title=The Poo That Animals Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!|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'Do Try This At Home - Cook Its 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'' is a fun, very boy friendly t know about poo? The book manages to be both funny ( but not just for boysand silly) cookbook combining as well as being very basic recipes, science facts interesting and educational. Using a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book includes science mixture of facts and in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a very simple fact like little at the fact a tomato is vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a fruit, or a water chestnut isn't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit lot about different types of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion ispoo, why onions make us cry, how yeast workspoos smell, 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 alkalinewhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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