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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=TigerA World of Dogs|author=Suzi EszterhasCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ItIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I's m a non-fiction book certainly sucker for the primary school audiencedogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and as a result is fully pictorial and not terribly wordyI've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. The So, any book about dogs, I'50 Things' idea is a hook m going to draw one in, sit down and that leads to fifty more salient paragraphs being given us in bold print, mostly but not all given a double-page spreaddevour. But there are other boxed-out paragraphs, timelines, factoids written up the edge of the page, illuminating captions Then I'm going to go back and more, so there is certainly a welter of detailread it properly. Said diversity And so it was with ''A World of detail can be delivered at times in awkward fashion – even Dogs'', with three paragraphs at most per page it can still be a test ninety-six pages devoted entirely to read them in my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the right order – but it does mean this book covers the gamut accidental owner of the War, pretty much in chronological order, and more or less in perfectlyan American Dingo -judged depthshe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715890</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=The Secrets of StonehengeRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Mick Manning Walker Books and Brita GranstromSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I hope you agree with me about the sheer optimism of this booklove ''The Repair Shop''s title. It carries a certain chutzpah 's my go-to pretend programme when I want to show all the secrets about be cheered up. After a mystical site which remainshard day, even with a lot of evidence, sheer conjecturethere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Yes we know when the stones were erectedYou see, and from where they came under the orders of what kind of prehistoric man, but nothing value is guaranteed in what these possessions are worth to the occult world of pagan ritual, prehistoric pantheons people who own them and primitive perpetual calendarsthe memories they hold. This book won't admit No expense appears to doubt beyond saying some people have different ideas about Stonehenge, but it will succeed in giving a fleeting glimpse be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to some of achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the mysteries experts and oo-er factors that make the site so intriguing for they're all ages to this daybrilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805205</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Big Meals for Little HandsStolen History|author=Virginie Aladjidi, Caroline Pellissier and Marion BilletSathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you learn that 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 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it features recipes from a Michelin starred chefwas probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, Sébastien GuénardI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, you immediately know that this is not going but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be just any kids’ cook book. And it’s not. Featuring recipes categorised by season, and utilising fresh fruit and vegetables called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the centre for each dishfirst place. Looking back, this is a book I still believe I was right - but I regret that may appeal most I lacked the maturity to children with more adventurous palatesapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread HappyJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Bernadette RussellFritz 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 – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to 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. But 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 keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. 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 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…
|isbn=024156574X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Bringing up ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a child right seems an almost impossible task sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to me. You can do right by them at home, only for them Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to go crazy out of the houseknow about this brilliant book. Kids will be kids, be they happy, sad It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', curious, lazy or any other trait that adults also have. If tells you are lucky how to have a kind natured kidpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), or are hoping to influence them gives you a little, definition and then ‘Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy’ by Bernadette Russell is includes the word in a super sweet book sentence so that is bound to chime with you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the right type of mini human.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401059</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Story Secret Life of the World CupBirds|author=Richard BrasseyMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Look at I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the calendar and you will see that it is vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a year ending in an even number, what does this mean? daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. To a host of football fans it means a summer free I've established which species feed from boredom as an International Tournament will fill the void that ground, which pop to the Premier League has left. For non-football fans it's more excuses feeders for people to watch a pigskin be knocked around. Be you young or old, football can get quick snatch of some food and who settles in your blood and you want to know for a good munch but I wish I was moreknowledgeable. For the younger fanIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, there are worse places I'd had access to start their obsession than the World Cup and getting to know more about the esteemed tournament in Richard Brassey’s a book such as ''The Story Secret Life of the World CupBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400946X</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Outdoor WonderlandVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Josie JefferyIsabel Thomas|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I was growing up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to inspire us make you ill. In the first book in what looks to do during the summer holidaysbe a very promising new series, but I still don’t understand why OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a TV show would encourage me clear and accessible introduction to switch off the telly – world of germs. We get an informed look at how am I meant to know people originally thought about diseases and what to do? they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. A far more sensible guide for outdoor fun is The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a book regular box headed 'speak like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’, an informative book full a scientist' which explains some of interesting things to do outside no matter the weather or time of daytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title=Secrets 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of the SeashoreMaths|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerEmma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This book starts ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in a rock pool. It’s not a boringthe womb, quietbeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, calm place, though, it’s bustling with lifeassessing probability at six months old, and with every page that turns we learn more about the mysterious creatures that live within it. You might not see them comprehending addition and subtraction at first, but with a hint of magic they appearnine months old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>}}''
I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=A First Book The Awesome Power of NatureSleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Davies and Mark HearldMorgan
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=There is 2020 has been a difference between a book strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for children that the kids themselves some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will like dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and one that adults others will likeworry unnecessarily. A more mature person may like some interesting illustrations or imaginative storyMost people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but most worrying about your lack of the children I know are happy just sleep is only likely to see some dinosaurs in their pantsmake it worse. However, And there are books 's also the fact that transcend this for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and can appeal sleep made to both groupsseem like laziness. Books that may have slightly dry reading for the very youngBeing up early, but illustrations that will transfix working late has been praised and amaze – introducing ‘A First Book of Nature’ written by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearldthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634916X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Jake's BonesCount on Me|author=Jake McGowan-LoweMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My oldest son has wanted The title and format of this book might lead you to be think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a palaeontologist since he was three and both boys are fascinated by how things workbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Last year my youngest saw some scientific anatomy drawings and begged for more, so I began looking for children It isn't: it's books on skeletons, and anatomy. There are very few available 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 we were forced a hymn of praise to waitmaths. It was worth waiting for though, this book 's about why maths is truly one of a kindso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783250259</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=The BeatlesIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromRosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir'The Beatles: the only people who'' begins with ll buy it are the childhood of John Lennon at people who know that nudity is OK and the end of ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the second world war. The first illustration seems to convey hot-and infant John twisting and shouting on his way -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to the air raid shelterbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. The text It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and illustrations both paint a picture of mischievous but intelligent childevery possible hue. We especially loved an illustration that shows the mixed emotions of the passengers Bodies with disabilities and driver as John plays an old harmonica for hours on the busmarkings. They're fine. Some of the passengers look desperate to escape In fact, but the driver is so impressed he gives John a better harmonicathey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Let's Paint!How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Gabriel AlborozoAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=35|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Are you keen to paint picturesd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, but afraid of making mistakes?in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about'' With this opening gambit . I ''Let’s Paint!knew''more, kicks off a short exploration of artistic styles and conceptsbut was little ''wiser''. Illustrated with a combination of black pen and ink line drawings and paintings Thankfully, Alborozo sets out to demonstrate how art can be funtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361327</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Secrets of the Apple TreeDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa NassnerRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=On What a cold winter nightrelief! A book about money, long after bedtimefor children, with clear explanations of what could be it is, why it matters, how to acquire more inviting than curling up under the blankets 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 matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a book clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to read by torch light? What surprises might your torch reveal? In buy. There's also the case of ‘Secrets possibility of using to do good in the Apple Tree’ you may get more than you bargained for…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400680</amazonuk>world.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Eye BendersSurvival in Space: The Science of Seeing and BelievingApollo 13 Mission|author=Clive Gifford David Long and Professor Anil SethStefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=My husband doesnIt't usually do bookss fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but when this arrived in the post it was a good two hours before anyone could get it out story of that journey remains one of his hands. The whole family ended up joining in and commenting on each illustration or illusion. On the surface, it just seems like some light-hearted fun, and this book certainly is fungreatest survival stories of all time. But ''Survival in addition to being great fun, this Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is an incredibly educational book as wella brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400842</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=Tracey Kelly1609809173|title=A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F KennedyEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I have a vivid memory of hearing about Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the assassination of John F Kennedy. He was youngbest, charismatic the worst and a hope for the future after the old guard who seemed to have been in power for ever - beautiful from many countries and then he was gonecultures. Books The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on JFK are easy art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to find - you'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]]stun the senses. And towering above it all, but it's rather more difficult the most popular and the most hated monument to find a book which puts Kennedy French accomplishment and what happened into context, so I was delighted to receive a copy of 'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy'daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries of Humanatomy: How the WorldBody Works|author=Richard HammondNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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, don't expect a definitive answer from Richard Hammond's ''Great Mysteries of the World''. You'll have to make up Get under your own mind after being presented with the arguments. You'll need to marshal skin, pick your brainpower. There are eighteen mysteries here, arranged within four topics - Weird Waters, Alien Encountersbrains, Creepy Creatures and Ancient Treasures. All the biggies are here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk>}}go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Bones RockLangford_Emily|authortitle=Peter L Larson and Kristin Donnan|rating=5|genre=ChildrenEmily's Non-Fiction|summary=Most children go through a dinosaur phase, but there are always a few children who are completely captivated by dinosaurs - and everything that goes with them. This is the most detailed palaeontology 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 with dinosaurs, but with science. The book explains how science works. It presents science, not as a set of facts, but of theories and ideas that are subject to change. Science becomes a living and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts to memorise. Reading this book, I can almost forget how much I hated science as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)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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