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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham1839948493|title=The Little Book A World of Garden Bird SongDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to suggest In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that theyI're m a bit too old sucker for that)dogs. In nearly eight decades, add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - I've never met one on each double-page spread - I didn't trust and then fill in the detailsI've loved most of them. You'll need I wish I felt the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultsame about human beings. Then you'll need details of where the bird is foundSo, what it eatsany book about dogs, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male I'm going to sit down and female adults differ and their sizedevour. Then you need a I'Did you know?' fact m going to go back and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know eitherread it properly. Does And so it sound simple? Well it isnwas with 't, but 'The Little Book A World of Garden Bird SongDogs'' does it perfectly, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. And thereAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a bonus, but I'll tell you lot about that in a momentdogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 1529507987|title=Viking LongshipThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''Fly on the WallThe Repair Shop''. It' is a new series of history books by awards my go-winning duo Manning and Granström, which aim to bring history programme when I want to life for young readersbe cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Viking Longship'' re worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the story of Grimm, a Viking warrior people who buys a broken ship called own them and the Sea Dragon and fixes it up to set sail in search of pastures newmemories they hold. The story follows Grimm's progress No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as he invades England with his band of warriors much time and then creates a farm settlement where his family can live in peaceeffort as is required to achieve the desired result. The book touches on various aspects of Viking life before coming full circle when Regular viewers know the settlement experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is raided by Saxons, culminating in a Viking funeral and a final image of the longboat in flamesthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806244</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Jenkins024162343X|title=Actual SizeStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There’s an enormous disembodied eye staring I was the bad company other people got into at meschool. At 30cm it’s as big as a dinner plate and it’s I was disruptive in my living room. Which is no bad thing religious education classes because if I met disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the sea then I’d really army had to be there in troublethe first place. Fortunately Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the eye is contained on page four of maturity to approach 'the intriguing and really rather splendid, book problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'Actual Size'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805949</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick Manning Jeremy Dronfield and Brita Granstrom David Ziggy Greene|title=Roman FortFritz 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…
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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=''Fly on Britannica's Word of the WallDay'' is has a new series of history books by awardsub-winning duo Manning title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Granström, Tickle Your Humerus'' which aim to bring history probably tells you all that you need to life for young readersknow about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Roman FortRazzmatazz'' follows the adventures of Centurion Vespian as he escorts the lady Lepidina and her son , tells you how to the safety of the Roman fort to celebrate her best friendpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''s birthday. Along the way), gives you a definition and then includes the story touches on various aspects of Roman life, including clothing, family life, buildings word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and religionfrequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806252</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Blake0711266204|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at ArtThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When did you last read I have recently discovered a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in great pleasure: I sit and watch the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressiveAn hour can pass without my noticing.) Back in 2001I've established which species feed from the ground, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed which pop to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas feeders for a quick snatch of some food and paper that who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would inspire anyone lookinghave been wonderful if, of whatever ageas a child, I'd had access to piece things together, work things out, a book such as ''form a narrativeThe Secret Life of Birds''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context So – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Magorian0192779230|title=Impossible!Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Josie is twelve'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and would much rather be Isabel Thomas have provided a boyclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. She attends a stage school We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut short, in how the hope of playing thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a boy’s part in regular box headed 'speak like a showscientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Scarry1800464495|title=Paul 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 for Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go |rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The pig family are heading out for a picnic ''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 – goodness – they are going subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to have some ride! This school is the loose story line that functions as a vehicle (pun intended) to introduce a mind boggling array strong predictor of ‘things later achievement, double that go’of literacy skills. In and around Ma and Pa Pig’s house there '' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are no less than seven motors. That’s aware that giving your children a quiet page good start in Richard Scarry’s 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''Cars 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 Trucks it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and Things That Gofor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I'. Prepare ve got loads to be dazzled along the journey by more vehicles than you ever thought existed all illustrated doing) and labelledothers will worry unnecessarily. This Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is an American book so some of only likely to make it worse. And there's also the carsfact that for far too long, trucks lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and fire engines may look a little unfamiliarsleep made to seem like laziness. However Being up early, I’m pretty sure though that I never saw a shark car, wolf wagon or pickle truck working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on either the M5 or the I5your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007581068</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey1849767343|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Christmas time growing up in a Welsh seaside town was magical for Dylan Thomas, always snowy The title and full format of adventure. From attempting this book might lead you to extinguish house fires with snowballs to hippo footprints in think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the snow his childhood in the snow was numbers journey. It isn't: it's a time hymn of wonder praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and pure joyhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Dean Myers1849767009|title=An African Princess: From African Orphan It Isn't Rude to Queen Victoria’s Favourite|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This elegant edition of An African Princess tells of the life of Sarah Bonetta who is suddenly swept from the threat of a savage execution in 1848 only to face a brave new world under the patronage of the imperious Queen Victoria. Meticulously researched by the twice elected US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, it is a creatively imaginative account, with an historical backbone of genuine diary entries, letters, autobiographical work, contemporary newspapers, social and anthropological studies and period photographs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354449</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewbe Nude|author=Trudi Esberger|title=The Boy Who Lost His BumbleRosie Haine|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A little boy loves his garden This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and he particularly loves the bees ones who ''know'' that visit it each day's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... He is Rosie Haines makes it into something so fascinated by his buzzy friends that he gives them each names much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and records their habits small and characteristicsof every possible hue. Then the weather changes, it grows cold Bodies with disabilities and his bees disappearmarkings. They're fine. Where can they be? Will In fact, they come back? The boy is puzzled and saddened by their departure and tries hard to encourage his missing friends to return're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846436613</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1776572858|title=Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Dear Diary, today It's more than sixty years since I really woke up on the wrong side of the bedasked how babies were made. For most people My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that means waking up in she'd get me a grumpy mood, but for me book about it literally means the wrong side of the bed. A couple of days later I stepped straight into was handed a pool full of viscous fish pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and then I climbed out, only to was told that it wouldn't be chased by a beardiscussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I am either eating too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the way''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Excavate! DinosaursDosh: Paper Toy PaleontologyHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Jonathan Tennant, Vladamir Nikolov and Charlie SimpsonRashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I believe that What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is now an established worldwide fact that dinosaurs are awesome. I have checked the latest edition , why it matters, how to acquire more of Nature it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it would appear that this is definitely the case. Dinosaurs are without doubt the coolest creatures Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to have roamed the Earthsome extent. Do You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you know what makes them might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really great? '' want to buy. The fact that that left fabulous fossils and brilliant bones behind. Any kid would love There's also the chance possibility of using to dig up some old bones and build their own dinosaurdo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1612125204</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Rattle and Rap178112938X|author=Susan Steggall|rating=4.5|genretitle=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Apparently, back Survival in the days of steam, every little boy used to dream of being an engine driver. Space: The trains in ''Rattle and Rap'' are all diesel but the allure of travel still wafts strongly from the pages. This is one in a series of vehicle-themed books aimed at pre-schoolers. It’s unusual to find engaging non-fiction for the under fives. With the focus on vehicles, Susan Stegall takes a staple of many a children’s book but, unlike some other authors, she treats the subject with imagination and creativity. It’s enough to make an anthropomorphised tank engine blush.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805833</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Inventions in 30 SecondsApollo 13 Mission|author=Dr Mike GoldsmithDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Popular ScienceDyslexia Friendly|summary=My son is incredibly curious and is constantly bombarding me with questions about how things work or how things are made. It seems that 's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the minute I have found Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the answer to story of that journey remains one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to replace itthe greatest survival stories of all time. I was delighted then, when ''Inventions Survival in 30 SecondsSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission'' arrived for me to review, as I saw it as is a dose brilliant retelling of much-needed respite from my endless researchwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401482</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Our Amazing PlanetKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|authortitle=Jon Richards and Ed SimkinsNine 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1609809173
|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=As reference books goBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, this is one of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best I’ve seen in a long time. Covering topics such as space, planet earth, the animal kingdom worst and the human bodybeautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, this colourful book is a powerful tool for homework help from juniors through food festivals and concerts to early senior schoolstun the senses. And towering above it all, beautifully presented the most popular and easy the most hated monument to draw information fromFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750281219</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Dead or Alive?Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Clive Gifford Nicola Edwards and Sarah HorneJem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Animals ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do the most amazing thingsand honestly, but dying is not one of themI don't see how you could resist. In fact, animals dislike dying so much that over This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the millennia they have evolved many ingenious ways of not being dead – or as scientists like human body to call this not dead state; alive. What better way curious children- from the skeletal system to avoid death than the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to act dead or smell so bad the DNA that no one would possibly want to eat you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268581</amazonuk>makes who we are.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Atlas of AdventuresEmily's Numbers|author=Lucy LetherlandJoss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Emily found words ''The world is full of adventuresuseful'', but counting was what she loved best. With this inviting opening line Obviously, you can count anything and there's 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 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 ''threeven'Atlas of Adventures'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' encourages young readers re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to travel the world from be a subset of the comfort of their own sofa. Boldeven numbers, bright illustrations show defining landmarks and celebrations from but it all around the world and each double-page spread is filled with bite-sized facts incorporated into the artworkworked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780585X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=Two Player Big Fun The Little Bookof the Dawn Chorus|author=Lydia CrookCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My house is full of technology designed to inspire and entertain: computers, iPads, games consoles, mobile devices...yet despite this, the kids seem to constantly complain that they are bored. Maybe the problem is that we are so used What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''being entertainedThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'', that perhaps we have forgotten how but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to entertain ourselvesresist on a cold and rather wet February morning. Lydia Crook, paper engineer, aims I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to change their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all of that by bringing out our creative again and playful side in it was just as good the excellent (and completely absorbing) ''Two Player Big Fun Book''second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401423</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=The Human Body in 30 SecondsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Anna ClaybourneKate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Our body A lot of history is an amazing machineabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, capable of performing a myriad of tasks simultaneouslylet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Even when we Of course, this isn't true and there are sleepingplenty of women who, our body is busy processing informationthroughout history, pumping bloodhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, regulating temperature and filtering wasteor created something never seen before. When we are hurtSo here, a host of repair systems jump into operation to sort out the damage. When we are invaded by a foreign bodyin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, our immune system works to repel the invaders. We are constantly making new discoveries about the wonderful way that our body worksstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401474</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Big Fat Christmas Book (Horrible Histories)Ignotofsky_Sport|author=Terry Deary and Martin Brown|rating=3|genretitle=Confident Readers|summary=I was reading Terry Deary before he even started writing the ‘Horrible History’ franchise. It seems that as I grew out of children’s non-fiction just as he exploded Women in popularity, selling millions of books in the series and even spawning a successful TV show (that I admit Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to watching). It has been years since the first Horrible History book, but they are still popular enough to produce an annual of sorts, but is this a case of annual horribilis?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147749</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Paint BookWin|author=Miri FlowerRachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Craft blogger Miri Flower challenges bored children everywhere with her lovely new series of art books, which utilise basic materials that can be found in most homes. ''The Paint BookWomen in Sport'' outlines seventy simple projects which encourage kids is coming to get crafty and creative with paintsus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Itcelebrates a century and a half of the development of women's going to get messysport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, so house-proud parents turn away nowand much more.Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere.Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071123583X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Rooney_Dino|title=The Pencil BookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Miri FlowerAnne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=54|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Summer is almost overLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. Gone are the carefree days playing outdoors in the sunshine This one comes with friends. Here come the rainy days and dark eveningssounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, heralding the inevitable cry some of: ''whom are very familiar but some I'm boredd never heard of before!''. Author and craft-blogger Miri Flower (fantastic name!) comes Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to the rescue of harassed parents everywhere , with her new series of art books which encourage children background noises, roars and squawks to utilise simple materials to create fun games and artwork. ''accompany them! The Pencil Bookbook creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it'' sees s very visual, placing the humble pencil takes centre stage, with seventy projects to keep kids engaged dinosaurs in their habitats and amusedgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711235848</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mason_poo|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!The Poo That Animals Do|author=Giles Andreae Paul Mason and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Tony de Saulles
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Meet Book. I'm sure you have many times overknow, I know, for otherwise sometimes you wouldnreally don't be here. Wewant to encourage your children've met well over 10s poo jokes,000 of them on but this website over the past few years of our young life. book is brilliant! I myself have personally reviewed over 1,000 of them in that time (gulp). Some have been completely enjoyable sat and spending time with them is like being entertained read it by a best friend; others have been myself when the equivalent of meeting someone you wouldnkids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't spit on if they were on fire. But even though Book has talked know about poo? The book manages to me in many different ways in that time, he was yet to tell me exclusively of himself. This then is Book as historian, as entertainer be both funny (and again silly) as friend, well as Book gives a summary of his own birth, history being very interesting and current state of playeducational. And I'm sure you agree he has Using a lot to be proud mixture of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0744544785</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Animal Lives: Giraffes|author=Sally Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals facts and figures, photographs and Wildlife|summary=The new ''Animal Lives'' series of picture books aims to help young children become animal expertsfunny cartoons, with each book focusing on you come away having sniggered a different wild animal. The current series looks little 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 vulture who poos on the cover of this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers to pick it up and start reading. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently into the camera lens whilst sharing its own feet but also knowing a trunkful of lush green vegetation. There is just ''something'' about baby elephants, isn't there? Who could resist opening the book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Animal Lives: Cheetahs|author=Sally Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=The first thing that struck me lot about this book was the excellent use of visuals. Most of the photographs in the book are for a double page spread. The images are crisp and clear and provide a great close-up view of these beautiful cats. Using the photograph as a centrepiece, each two-page section examines a different aspect types of cheetah behaviour. Subjects covered include growing up, huntingpoo, territory and cheetahs under threat. The sections have a brief introductory paragraph in largewhy poos smell, bold print and then several smaller facts surround the main picture, sometimes including smaller photographs to illustrate the main pointswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>
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