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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Secrets of Stonehenge1839948493|authortitle=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I hope you agree with me about the sheer optimism of this book's title. It carries a certain chutzpah to pretend to show all the secrets about a mystical site which remains, even with a lot of evidence, sheer conjecture. Yes we know when the stones were erected, and from where they came under the orders of what kind of prehistoric man, but nothing is guaranteed in the occult world of pagan ritual, prehistoric pantheons and primitive perpetual calendars. This book won't admit to doubt beyond saying some people have nutjob ideas about Stonehenge, but it will succeed in giving a fleeting glimpse to some A World of the mysteries and oo-er factors that make the site so intriguing for all ages to this day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Big Meals for Little HandsDogs|author=Virginie Aladjidi, Caroline Pellissier Carlie Sorosiak and Marion BilletLuisa Uribe|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When you learn that it features recipes from a Michelin starred chef, Sébastien Guénard, you immediately know that this is not going to be just any kids’ cook book. And it’s not. Featuring recipes categorised by season, and utilising fresh fruit and vegetables as the centre for each dish, this is a book that may appeal most to children with more adventurous palates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263168</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy|author=Bernadette Russell|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Bringing up a child right seems an almost impossible task to me. You can do right by them at home, only for them to go crazy out of the house. Kids will be kids, be they happy, sad, curious, lazy or any other trait that adults also have. If you are lucky to have a kind natured kid, or are hoping to influence them a little, then ‘Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy’ by Bernadette Russell is a super sweet book that is bound to chime with the right type of mini human.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401059</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Story of the World Cup|author=Richard Brassey|rating=4
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|summary=Look at In the calendar and interests of full disclosure, I must tell you will see that it is I'm a year ending in an even numbersucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, what does this mean? I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. To a host of football fans it means a summer free from boredom as an International Tournament will fill I wish I felt the void that the Premier League has leftsame about human beings. For non-football fans itSo, any book about dogs, I's more excuses for people m going to watch a pigskin be knocked aroundsit down and devour. Be you young or old, football can get in your blood Then I'm going to go back and you want to know moreread it properly. For the younger fanAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', there are worse places with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to start their obsession than the World Cup and getting to know more about my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the esteemed tournament in Richard Brassey’s 'The Story accidental owner of the World Cupan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400946X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Outdoor WonderlandThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Josie JefferyWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I was growing love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ to inspire us . After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to do during the summer holidays, but I still don’t understand why a TV show would encourage me people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to switch off be spared and the telly – how am I meant experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what to do? A far more sensible guide for outdoor fun it is a book like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’, an informative book full of interesting things to do outside no matter the weather or time of daythey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Secrets of the SeashoreStolen History|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerSathnam Sanghera|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This book starts I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a rock pool'god'. It’s not a boring Where was the proof? In history lessons, quietit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, calm placeI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, though, it’s bustling with life, and with every page that turns but we learn more about didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the mysterious creatures that live within itfirst place. You might not see them at first Looking back, I still believe I was right - but with a hint of magic they appearI regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Earth in 30 SecondsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Anita GaneriFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=As a former cataloguer We start with the pair of children’s books there are names that are synonymous with juvenile non-fictionbrothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in my time 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the author Anita Ganeri synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has graced my work table 112 timesto make 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. She But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a prolific author and her legacy continues national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the form round-ups of ‘Earth Jews. These in 30 Seconds’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, part 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 a series of books for 7-11 year olds that explore scientific principles in easy bite size pieces.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401091</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Flowerpot Farm: A First Gardening Activity BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Lorraine HarrisonPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With ''Britannica's Word of the demand for us Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to eat seemingly more fruit Stretch Your Cranium and vegetables every day, the world of grow-your-own is back. Why buy from the supermarket when Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you can release the kids into the garden need to graze like cattle? Howeverknow about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', before tells you do thishow to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), perhaps gives you should pick up a book like ‘Flowerpot Farm’ by Lorraine Harrison definition and Faye Bradley which will show them then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how to create their own fruit, veg it should be used. You also get an engaging and flower garden no matter how small frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a space they have to work with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400818</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=A First Book The Secret Life of NatureBirds|author=Nicola Davies Moira Butterfield and Mark HearldVivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There is I have recently discovered a difference between great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a book for children that the kids themselves will like and one that adults will likedaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative storyI've established which species feed from the ground, but most which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of the children I know are happy just to see some dinosaurs food and who settles in their pantsfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. HoweverIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, there are books that transcend this and can appeal I'd had access to both groupsa book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Books that may have slightly dry reading for the very young, but illustrations that will transfix and amaze So – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Jake's BonesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Jake McGowan-LoweIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My oldest son 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has wanted the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a palaeontologist since he was three very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and both boys are fascinated by how things workthe thinking has developed over time. Last year my youngest saw The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some scientific anatomy drawings of the trickiest concepts and begged for moreyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, so I began looking for children's books on skeletonsfungi, protists and anatomy. There are very few available viruses – and this looked the best by far, I spent two days searching not only British but American booksellers before noticing that the book had not been released yet - so sadly how we were forced to wait. It was worth waiting for though, this book is truly one of a kindshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Secrets of the Apple TreeCount on Me|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=On The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a cold winter night, long after bedtime, what could be more inviting than curling up under basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the blankets with numbers journey. It isn't: it's a book hymn of praise to read by torch light? What surprises might your torch reveal? In the case of ‘Secrets of the Apple Tree’ you may get more than maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you bargained for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400680</amazonuk>meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and BelievingIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethRosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=My husband doesnThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir't usually do books, but when this arrived in : the post only people who'll buy it was a good two hours before anyone could get it out of his hands. The whole family ended up joining in are the people who know that nudity is OK and commenting on each illustration or illusion. On the surface, ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it just seems like some lightthey avoid the hot-hearted fun, and this book certainly -bothered person in the supermarket who is funcoughing fit to bust. But in addition to being great fun... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, this is an incredibly educational book as wellthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Kelly1776572858|title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F KennedyHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I have asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a vivid memory of hearing book about the assassination of John F Kennedyit. He A couple of days later I was young, charismatic and handed a hope for pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the future after the old guard who seemed to have basics, in clinical language which had never been used in power for ever - our house before) and then he I was gonetold that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Books on JFK are easy to find - youI ''knew'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]], but it's rather more difficult to find a book which puts Kennedy and what happened into context, so I but was delighted to receive a copy of little ''wiser'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries of the WorldDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Richard HammondRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered whether or not the Loch Ness Monster actually exists? What a relief! A book about the Abominable Snowman? Do you think about money, for children, with clear explanations of what really goes on inside the Bermuda Triangle? Wellit is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't expect matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a definitive answer from Richard Hammondsaver (you might even become an ''investor's ') and there might be something you really, 'Great Mysteries of the World'really'. You'll have want to make up your own mind after being presented with the argumentsbuy. You There'll need s also the possibility of using to marshal your brainpower. There are eighteen mysteries here, arranged within four topics - Weird Waters, Alien Encounters, Creepy Creatures and Ancient Treasures. All do good in the biggies are hereworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Deadly DetectivesSurvival in Space: Top Tips to Track WildlifeThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=Steve BackshallDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Steve Backshall is best known for his Deadly 60 series, which focuses on deadly predators. This book has plenty of predators It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from all around the world, but it also includes many less dangerous creatures, including a fair amount on animals Kennedy Space Centre in the UK. Tracking a fox may not sound as exciting as tracking a leopardFlorida, but it something many children may find a chance to do in the UK, and Steve very helpfully shows story of that journey remains one of the reader how to differentiate between a fox print and that greatest survival stories of a dogall time. ''Survival in Space: The book has several other footprint illustrations, teaching children subtle differences between may types Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of printswhat happened. It even had crab and bird prints to look for at the seaside. But this is about so much more than tracking and footprints.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006436</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|isbn=1609809173|title=Bones RockEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Peter L Larson and Kristin DonnanJill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most children go through a dinosaur phaseBrash and elegant, sophisticated, but there are always a few children who are completely captivated by dinosaurs - controversial and everything that goes with them. This is vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the most detailed palaeontology book for children I have ever found. This book is written for older childrenbest, even teens who may wish to seriously consider palaeontology as a career choicethe worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The book beginsFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, not with dinosaurs, but with science. The book explains how science works. It presents scienceput on art shows, not as a set of factsdance performances, but of theories food festivals and ideas that are subject concerts to changestun the senses. Science becomes a living And towering above it all, the most popular and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts the most hated monument to memorise. Reading this book, I can almost forget how much I hated science as a childFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</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!''
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Emily's Numbers|author=Jim EldridgeJoss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was one of Britainwhat she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's greatest thinkers no 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 last century. He did pioneering work on computing list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and artificial intelligenceit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. He was also (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a hero subset of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used odd numbers but sound as though they ought to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was be a subset of the man who beat the Enigma machineeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=How The Little Book of the Meteorite Got to the MuseumDawn Chorus|author=Jessie HartlandCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=This is What a cumulative tale in which one small event sets off a chain treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of other events which are repeated throughout the story. If your child loves books like Dawn Chorus''This is but the pull of the House That Jack Built'', this may prove sounds of a very useful addition dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to you home library, but this is resist on a type of story telling which cold and rather wet February morning. I have found some children really take spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening totheir song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, and others what do not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Discover the Savage WorldFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist and Amanda AskewKate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range A lot of subjects covered in ''Discover the Savage World'' history is astonishingabout men. The first three chapters are science related topics. The first section ''Earth's Power'' covers the birth of the universe, earthquakes, volcanoes Kings and generals and inventors and other natural disasterspoliticians. '' Deadly Nature'' brings new meaning to the phrase ''acting like animals''Sometimes, it feels almost as we see the darker side of naturethough there were no women in history at all, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise let alone ones young girls might like to read about a very common and well known birdor regard as role models. ''Wild Science'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements, explosions, fireworks and exactly how a bullet worksOf course, as well as the birth of a star. this isn''Tough Machines'' dips into technology t true and innovation with an incredible variety there are plenty of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles and diggerswomen who, to robotsthroughout history, military vehicleshave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, ice breaking shipsor created something never seen before. So here, rockets, and flood control systems. The focus turns to geography with ''Harsh Lands'' show a myriad of cultures and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due to naturethis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, but man made hazards like Chernobyl and land mines occur as well. Finally we close with history and ''Brutal Battles''. This covers ancient warfare with events such as are the Battle stories of Marathon and the Siege of Masada right up to the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle some of Kurskthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of SpaceWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Dominic Walliman and Ben NewmanRachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first thing I noticed about this book was ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the illustrationsWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. There is It celebrates a century and a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think half 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 development of women's sport by looking at fifty of the books in our space collection. I was expecting this to be a fun light read. It was certainly funits highest achievers, the whole family loved this bookcovering sports as diverse as swimming, but it was anything but a light read. We spent three days reading this bookfencing, researching topics online after reading about themriding, engaging the entire family in debates on spaceskating, conducting experiments inspired by our research etcand much more... We had to rearrange our entire school week - Think of a sport and we still haven't finished - we have a number of new projects inspired by pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book planned for next week as wellsomewhere. This book Each entry 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 thema double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=The Book Of Space: All About Stars, Planets and Rockets!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Clive GiffordAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There's always a danger in putting a definitive article in Lift the name of flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a children's non-fiction book titlechild. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitiveThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, with a lot through various different ages of numbers and factsdinosaurs, yet we meet a delivery that makes all variety of those and the theories and terminology it uses all palatable to the browsercreatures, and still manages to throw in the redundant unfunny cartoons at the side. In using an intelligent system some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of going through all before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the subjects under the broad subject of spacevarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with none of the tablesbackground noises, box-outs roars and so on other editors choosesquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, this proves one of placing the more sober, measured dinosaurs in their habitats and successful books of its kindgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014The Poo That Animals Do|author=Robert Leroy RipleyPaul Mason and Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't normally do annuals. Iwant to encourage your children'm afraid too many of the silly cartoon variety put me off the genres poo jokes, but this book is something completely different. It seems a shame brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to even call school and found it an annualfascinating! 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. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia Using a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the bizarrevulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, unusualwhy poos smell, twisted and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you to 'Believe it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>why wombats do square poos.
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