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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Our Amazing PlanetA World of Dogs|author=Jon Richards Carlie Sorosiak and Ed SimkinsLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5

|summary=As reference books goIn the interests of full disclosure, this is one of the best I’ve seen in I must tell you that I'm a long timesucker for dogs. Covering topics such as space In nearly eight decades, planet earth, the animal kingdom I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human bodybeings. So, this colourful any book is a powerful tool for homework help from juniors through about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to early senior schoolgo back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', beautifully presented and easy with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to draw information frommy four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750281219</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Dead or Alive?The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Clive Gifford Walker Books and Sarah HorneSonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Animals do the most amazing things, but dying is not one of themI love ''The Repair Shop''. In fact, animals dislike dying so much that over the millennia they have evolved many ingenious ways of not being dead – or as scientists like to call this not dead state; alive. What better way to avoid death than It's my go-to act dead or smell so bad that no one would possibly programme when I want to eat you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268581</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Atlas of Adventures|author=Lucy Letherland|rating=4|genre=Childrenbe cheered up. After a hard day, there's Non-Fiction|summary=''The world is full of adventures'nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. With this inviting opening line You see, the ''Atlas of Adventures'' encourages young readers value is in what these possessions are worth to travel the world from people who own them and the comfort of their own sofamemories they hold. Bold, bright illustrations show defining landmarks No expense appears to be spared and celebrations from all around the world experts spend as much time and each double-page spread effort as is filled with bite-sized facts incorporated into required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the artworkexperts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780585X</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Two Player Big Fun BookStolen History|author=Lydia CrookSathnam Sanghera

|summary=My house is full I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of technology designed to inspire and entertain: computers, iPads, games consoles, mobile devicesa 'god'...yet despite this Where was the proof? In history lessons, the kids seem to constantly complain that they are boredit was probably worse still. Maybe Not too long after the problem is that we are end of WWII, I didn't so used much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'being entertainedt dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies', that perhaps we have forgotten how as want to dispute what right the army had to entertain ourselvesbe there in the first place. Lydia Crook Looking back, paper engineer, aims I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to change all of that by bringing out our creative and playful side in approach 'the excellent (and completely absorbing) problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Two Player Big Fun BookStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401423</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsFrontpage|author=Anna Claybourne|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Our body is an amazing machine, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneously. Even when we are sleeping, our body is busy processing information, pumping blood, regulating temperature Jeremy Dronfield and filtering waste. When we are hurt, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damage. When we are invaded by a foreign body, our immune system works to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Big Fat Christmas Book (Horrible Histories)|author=Terry Deary Fritz and Martin BrownKurt|rating=34

|summary=I was reading Terry Deary before he even started writing 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 ‘Horrible History’ franchisesynagogue choir and at a vocational school. It seems that 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 I grew 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 of children’s non-fiction , invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as he exploded much as in popularityGermany, selling millions as did all the round-ups of books Jews. These in their turn leave the series younger Kurt at home with his mother and even spawning a successful TV show (that I admit sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to watching). It has been years since Britain or the first Horrible History bookUS, but they while Fritz and his father are still popular enough , unknown initially to produce an annual 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 sorts, but is all this a case of annual horribilis?could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147749</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=The Paint BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Miri FlowerPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series ''Britannica's Word of art books, which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homes. the Day'' has a sub-title: ''The Paint Book366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids probably tells you all that you need to get crafty and creative with paintsknow about this brilliant book. Itstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s going , tells you how to get messypronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so house-proud parents turn away nowthat you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Pencil BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Miri FlowerMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Summer is almost over. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine with friends. Here come the rainy days I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and dark evenings, heralding watch the inevitable cry vast numbers of: ''birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I'm bored!''. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the rescue of harassed parents everywhere with her new series feeders for a quick snatch of art books which encourage children to utilise simple materials to create fun games some food and artworkwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Pencil BookSecret Life of Birds'' sees the humble pencil takes centre stage, with seventy projects to keep kids engaged and amused.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk> So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Isabel Thomas

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildings, big vehicles, big animals'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. HoweverIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, I OUP and Isabel Thomas have recently learnt that there is provided a size that is bigger than big – megaclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. What beasts, both from now We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and from how the pastthinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, are large enough to achieve this accolade protists and viruses – and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>how we should protect ourselves.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title=Book100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=John Agard and Neil Packer (illustrator)Emma Smith

|summary=Meet Book. I'm sure you have many times over, for otherwise you wouldn't Babies seem to be here. We've met well over 10,000 of them on this website over born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the past few years of our young life. I myself have personally reviewed over 1womb,000 of them in that time (gulp). Some have been completely enjoyable and spending time with them is like being entertained by a best friend; others have been the equivalent aware of meeting someone you wouldn't spit on if they were on fire. But even though Book has talked to me in many different ways in that timequantities at seven hours old, he was yet to tell me exclusively of himself. This then is Book as historianassessing probability at six months old, as entertainer and again as friend, as Book gives a summary of his own birth, history comprehending addition and current state of playsubtraction at nine months old. And I'm sure you agree he has a lot to be proud of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0744544785</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Animal LivesDid you know this? I didn't! How about: Giraffes|author=Sally Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=The new ''Animal Lives'' series of picture books aims to help young children become animal experts, with each book focusing on a different wild animal. The current series looks at animals of the African savannah and this time it is the turn of the noble giraffe to take centre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Animal Lives: Elephants|author=Sally Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=The eye-catching image ''Maths ability on the cover of this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers entry to pick it up and start reading. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently into the camera lens whilst sharing school is a trunkful strong predictor of later achievement, double that of lush green vegetationliteracy skills. There is just ''something'' about baby elephants, isn't there? Who could resist opening the book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</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=Animal LivesThe Awesome Power of Sleep: CheetahsHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Sally Nicola Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeTeens|summary=The first thing 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that struck me statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this book was as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the excellent use odd bad night but worrying about your lack of visualssleep is only likely to make it worse. Most of And there's also the photographs in the book are fact that for a double page spread. The images are crisp and clear and provide a great close-up view far too long, lack of these beautiful cats. Using the photograph sleep has been lauded as a centrepiece, each two-page section examines a different aspect of cheetah behaviourvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Subjects covered include growing Being upearly, hunting, territory working late has been praised and cheetahs under threat. The sections have a brief introductory paragraph in large, bold print and then several smaller facts surround the main picture, sometimes including smaller photographs ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to illustrate the main pointsput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life|author=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life these pages must show…'' Such Dickens wrote – although of course he never wrote that about himself. He did write a lot – letters, short stories, travel journals, and of course a firm dozen classic novels – but never a strict autobiography. This book for the primary school age reader gets round that by cribbing bits from here and there, and by using a good graphic eye, to tell the stories of not only his life, but many of the works too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805000</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Explore and Draw Patterns: An Art Activity Book|author=Owen Davey and Georgia Amson-Bradshaw|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Explore and Draw Patterns is a beautifully presented interactive workbook designed to spark creativity and imagination. The appeal of the subject matter is universal; everyone loves to doodle, so the book would be equally enjoyable for adults or children.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401407</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1849767343|title=Top 10 of Everything 2015Count on Me|author=Paul TerryMiguel Tanco

|summary=The Top 10 of Everything 2015 is, as the title implies, a compilation and format of this book might lead you to think that it'top tens either about responsibility - or it' lists covering s a wide variety of topics including basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the natural world, pop culture, sport and technologynumbers journey. The style It isn't: it's a hymn of the book will appeal praise to its target audience of pre-teens with its use of bright colours, vibrant images, fun facts, puzzles maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and quizzeshow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600628868</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=The Life of a CarIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Susan SteggallRosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=As This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the daughter of a car worker choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the mother of a little boy ones who is fascinated by wheels, ''The Life of a Carknow''that it' stood out on s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the shelfhot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Part But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of the bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they'Busy Wheels'' series, this non fiction picture book illustrates the life cycle of a car from manufacture to scrapping with the help of just the odd word or two or threere wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=S is for South AfricaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Beverley Naidoo Anna Fiske and Prodeepta DasDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Beverley Naidoo is best known for her award winning fiction for older readers but in this title in the World Alphabet series It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she brings her native country of South Africa to life for younger children'd get me a book about it. Starting with A for couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Apartheid Museum basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and finishing with Zoo Lake in Jo’burg she covers many different aspects of life including traditionsI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, foodbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, landscape, animals, music and family life and each subject is accompanied by one of Prodeepta Das’s stunning photos. The poetic text flows and this would work well read aloudtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805027</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Rubik's QuestDosh: Mission InventHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=John FarndonRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35

|summary=The Rubik Cube What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is not only a great toy, but also a great brandwhy 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. Why should Lego have Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all the fun? need it to some extent. To wit Rubik have recently branched out You might want to go into creating variations of their famous puzzlebusiness, be a clever shopper, but also into other formats including books. a saver (you might even become an ''Rubikinvestor's Quest: Mission Invent'' by John Farndon is one of a new series of fun puzzle books designed for kids that combine a story with improving your knowledge; in this case, in science. Can science ) and there might be fun? The answer is yessomething you really, but perhaps ''Mission Inventreally''want to buy. There' is not s also the best example possibility of thisusing to do good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715580</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=ElephantSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Suzi EszterhasDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=It''Elephant'' is part 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 wonderful greatest survival stories of all time. ''Eye on the WildSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' series by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas. The book follows the journey of is a young bull elephant calf from birth through adulthood. The vivid full-page photographs show heartwarming snapshots brilliant retelling of life in the herd; a purely matriarchal society where strong females form a close family bond and work hard rearing and protecting their youngwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805035</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=TigerEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Suzi EszterhasJill Jonnes

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World''Tiger'' is a simply stunning picture book following s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the lives of a tiger family beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from birth all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to adulthoodstun the senses. Each page is filled with enchanting pictures of And towering above it all, the most popular and the tigers in most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the wild, taken by award-winning photographer Suzi EszterhasEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805043</amazonuk>

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=50 Things You Should Know About The First World WarEmily's Numbers|author=Jim EldridgeJoss Langford

|summary=ItEmily found words ''useful''s a non-fiction book certainly for the primary school audience, and as a result is fully pictorial and not terribly wordybut counting was what she loved best. The Obviously, you can count anything and there'50 Things' idea is a hook s no limit to draw one inhow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and that leads to fifty more salient paragraphs being given us began counting in bold print, mostly but not twos. She knew all given a double-page spreadabout odd and even numbers. But there are other boxed-out paragraphs, timelines, factoids written up the edge Then she began counting in threes: half of the pagelist were even numbers, illuminating captions but the other half was odd and more, so there is certainly a welter it was this list of detailodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Said diversity of detail can be delivered (Actually, this confused me a little bit at times in awkward fashion – even with three paragraphs at most per page it can still be first as they're a test to read them in subset of the right order – odd numbers but it does mean this book covers the gamut sound as though they ought to be a subset of the Wareven numbers, pretty much in chronological order, and more or less in perfectly-judged depthbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715890</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Secrets Little Book of Stonehengethe Dawn Chorus|author=Mick Manning Caz Buckingham and Brita GranstromAndrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I hope you agree with me about the sheer optimism of this bookreally did mean to just ''glance'' at ''s title. It carries a certain chutzpah to pretend to show all the secrets about a mystical site which remains, even with a lot The Little Book of evidence, sheer conjecture. Yes we know when the stones were erected, and from where they came under Dawn Chorus'' but the orders of what kind pull of prehistoric man, but nothing is guaranteed in the occult world sounds of pagan ritual, prehistoric pantheons a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and primitive perpetual calendarsrather wet February morning. This book won't admit to doubt beyond saying some people have different ideas I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about Stonehenge, but it will succeed in giving a fleeting glimpse to some of the mysteries birds and oolistening to their song. Then - just because I could -er factors that make I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the site so intriguing for all ages to this daysecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805205</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Big Meals for Little HandsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Virginie Aladjidi, Caroline Pellissier and Marion BilletKate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=When you learn that A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it features recipes from a Michelin starred chef, Sébastien Guénardfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, you immediately know that this is not going let alone ones young girls might like to be just any kids’ cook book. And it’s notread about or regard as role models. Featuring recipes categorised by seasonOf course, this isn't true and utilising fresh fruit and vegetables as the centre for each dishthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this is a wonderful picture book that may appeal most to children with more adventurous palatesfrom Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263168</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread HappyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Bernadette RussellRachel Ignotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Bringing up a child right seems an almost impossible task ''Women in Sport'' is coming to meus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. You can do right It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by them looking at homefifty of its highest achievers, only for them to go crazy out of the house. Kids will be kidscovering sports as diverse as swimming, be they happyfencing, sadriding, curiousskating, lazy or any other trait that adults also haveand much more. If you are lucky to have Think of a kind natured kid, or are hoping to influence them sport and a little, then ‘Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy’ by Bernadette Russell pioneering woman succeeding at it is a super sweet probably in this book that somewhere. Each entry is bound to chime a double-page spread with the right type of mini humana brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401059</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=The Story of the World CupDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Richard BrasseyAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Look at Lift the calendar and you will see that it is flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a year ending in an even numberchild. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, what does this mean? To we meet a host variety of creatures, some of football fans it means a summer free from boredom as an International Tournament will fill the void that the Premier League has left. For non-football fans itwhom are very familiar but some I's more excuses for people to watch a pigskin be knocked around. Be you young or oldd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, football can get in your blood and showing you want to know more. For what the younger fan, there various dinosaurs are worse places getting up to start their obsession than the World Cup , with background noises, roars and getting squawks to know more accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the esteemed tournament dinosaurs in Richard Brassey’s 'The Story of the World Cup'their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144400946X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=Outdoor WonderlandThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Josie JefferyPaul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=When I was growing up we had ‘Why Don’t You’ know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to inspire us what to do during the summer holidaysencourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I still don’t understand why a TV show would encourage me sat and read it by myself when the kids had gone to switch off the telly – how am school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I meant to didn't know what about poo? The book manages to do? A far more sensible guide for outdoor fun is be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a book like Josie Jeffery’s ‘Outdoor Wonderland’mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, an informative book full you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of interesting things to poo, why poos smell, and why wombats do outside no matter the weather or time of daysquare poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400826</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Secrets of the Seashore|author=Carron Brown and Alyssa Nassner|rating=4|genre=Move on to [[Newest Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This book starts in a rock pool. It’s not a boring, quiet, calm place, though, it’s bustling with life, Rhymes and with every page that turns we learn more about the mysterious creatures that live within it. You might not see them at first, but with a hint of magic they appear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401105</amazonuk>}}Verse Reviews]]