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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helaine Becker and Brendan Mullan1839948493|title=Everything Space (National Geographic Kids Everything)A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=35

|summary=It has to be said that too many children habitually want to be involved in In the dangerous jobs – firefighterinterests of full disclosure, sportsmanI must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, pilot, racing car driver, astronautI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. Yes, looking up at I wish I felt the Milky Way or seeing planets and suns drift around in planetariums or movies seems particularly benignsame about human beings. So, but you have to bear in mind astronauts have to face severe G-force pressures when they take offany book about dogs, put themselves into the hands of thousands of scientists, engineers and so on I'm going to keep them safe, sit down and face a lot when they do get out theredevour. It seems itThen I's just another job a child should be safely steered away from aspiring m going togo back and read it properly. Luckily there is both And so much we know about spaceit was with ''A World of Dogs'', and so much we have yet with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to learn, that they can have a satisfying life in that world from a cosy room in an observatorymy four-legged friends. Books like this are designed to be Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the first step through those doors – accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a primer in all things from the biggest galactic clusters to the tiniest particles of dark matterlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426320744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists1529507987|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=In I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my youth colouring books were popular for children: they helped go-to programme when I want to teach some valuable skillsbe cheered up. But teachers After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching expertsrepair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, thought that they stifled creativity the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and once you'd mastered being able to stick within the lines memories they were whisked away as being 'childish' and you were restricted to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in sciencehold. The fact that colouring could No expense appears to be relaxing spared and the experts spend as much time and fun had been forgotteneffort as is required to achieve the desired result. Fortunately times have changed: adults are encouraged to relax with one of Regular viewers know the hundreds of colouring books now available experts and Ithey'm delighted to see a resurgence of the idea for not just the youngest children but for those whore all brilliant at explaining what it is they're a bit older toodoing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander024162343X|title=Style Guide: Fashion From Head to Toe|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=In ''Style Guide: Fashion from Head to Toe'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010, taking a decade or so at a time and exploring several aspects of each decade. For instance the period 1890 to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'', ''Out and About'' and ''The Orient''. Each division has a picture to be coloured but rather than being a picture of ''one'' garment, there's a montage of garments and accessories from the period: ''The Orient '' has eight different pictures - of the triangle bag, a fur-trimmed shawl, kimono, pleated gown, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume and slippers and finally a turban. On the reverse of each picture is a key. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key you'll find some historical information and some colour details.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you still think of Stampy as the elephant in ''The Simpsons'', you need to get with it. For one thing, TV is so last century – now it's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same time. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Sathnam Sanghera|rating=2.5

|summary= I've often shouted was the bad company other people got into at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of geography about their nationa 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. People just donNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't seem so much want to have learnt learn about or been the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to other areas of be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prizeLooking back, I can imagine still believe I was right - but I regret that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as I lacked the maturity to approach 'the USAproblem' politely. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et alJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Colouring books for adults are all We start with the rage at the moment pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and it's too easy their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to forget that adults are not do – kicking things around the only ones who benefit from empty market place, helping the calmingneighbours, soothing therapy of colouring or being dutiful when it comes to the improvement in hand-eye co-ordination which comes with practicesynagogue choir and at a vocational school. ChildrenKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's picture books have tended to be flimsier each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and not put together with quite such panache or by such well-known names, but we now have workmanlike as a childrenlight switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's colouring book will, and instead of having a national vote to bridge keep the gapNazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesKristallnacht'' has projects from 43 artistshappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, well known as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the field younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of children's book illustrationan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going off on the same train to lose your placeBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson1913750353|title=Diary Britannica's Word of a Time Travellerthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5

|summary=With ''Britannica's Word of the usual complaint Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'History is Boring!', Augustus slumps over his school desk – until his teacher, a certain Professor Tempotells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), comes to his aid. She gives him you a notebook definition and yellow pencil and says he should imagine himself then includes the word in a place in the past to see sentence so that you know how interesting it actually could should beused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. And lo and behold heI don's there, seeing the world of the pastt think I's effect on the world of ve ever encountered a word which uses the present for his very own eyes. He ends up doing this more than a couple dozen letter Z four times, filling the notebook with amazing sights he's seen and people he's stood alongside, from Mozart to Einstein, from Chaucer to Lincoln, and what we read is what he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost0711266204|title=The School Secret Life of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple LessonsBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Written with an interesting approach, this book treats I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the reader as vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a new art student to The School of Artdaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. The five professors of I've established which species feed from the school take ground, which pop to the student through 40 different lessons, looking at feeders for a huge range quick snatch of ideas right from how to draw some food and who settles in for a line, perspective and proportion, composition and aestheticsgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Aimed probably at senior school children it couldIt would have been wonderful if, howeveras a child, also be used by older primary children who are particularly interested in art, and if you were working through the I'd had access to a book with your child then a younger child could also try out some such as ''The Secret Life of the lesson ideas and suggestionsBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Ford0192779230|title=StarsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: A Family Guide to the Night SkyThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=If an innovative '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 Isabel Thomas have provided a beautiful piece of art got together clear and had offspring, accessible introduction to the result would probably world of germs. We get an informed look a lot like an Ivy Press publication. This publisher never ceases to impress at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and their books are how the kind of ones that you keep to pass onto subsequent generationsthinking has developed over time. With this in mind, I was excited to receive The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a lovely childrenregular box headed 's book called speak like a scientist''Stars: A Family Guide to which explains some of the Night Skytrickiest concepts and you'' for reviewll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, which invites families to ''explore the cosmos from your own backyard''. Would it live up to the standard of its predecessors? I was getting starry-eyed in anticipation..protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402764</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth1800464495|title=Brain Twisters100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The Science Support All Areas of Thinking and FeelingYour Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the brainwomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. We all have one'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills. We all use it (and by 'it'  I mean didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a heck of good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a lot more of it than solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the 10% same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of urban myth) every second us are afraid of the daymaths. We engage with different parts But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it for balance, catching follows that giving our children a ball, memorising 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 list strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of moves in controlling a video game characterour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, or understanding things ranging from written instruction children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to body languagemake it worse. ItAnd there's such a vital part of also the bodyfact that for far too long, taking up 20% lack of our glucose fuel intake sleep has been lauded as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an agea virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. But in this varied and complex bookBeing up early, looking at a varied working late has been praised and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach ability to survive on little sleep has been taken at all timesalmost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams1849767343|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animalsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=Is it any wonder that The title and format of this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things in fiction books, on TV and in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which might lead you to go, and think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a willingness to explore. This basic 1-2-3 book provides for those gates – there they are, shining luxuriously just starting out on the cover of this jumbo-sized hardbacknumbers journey. And in five easy-to-take steps, the rest of the book provides for that exploration, taking us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters It isn't: it's a hymn of the Great Barrier Reef, and up – praise to deserts and mountains, via Germanymaths. It's own Black Forest. And the trip about why maths is nothing if not spectacular to look atso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Haake and Georgia Cherry1849767009|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=ItThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who's not every time I mention ll buy it are the feel of people who know that nudity is OK and the book Iones who ''know''m reviewing, but this time that it's worth shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a mentionbook about not wearing clothes. This volume has been lavishly presented in It's a roughened card cover, as opposed to the gloss celebration of others in this format from this publisher, bodies: bodies large and so looks small and feels like an old stamp catalogue. The title image is indeed a stamp, stuck on the centre of the coverevery possible hue. And just as all stamps the world over are practically the same yet completely different in design, so are the world's citiesBodies with disabilities and markings. The point of this book is to bring the common elements as well as the unique features of all the worldThey's capitals to the fore, to show that while a city may be a city is a city, their constant variety is what makes each and every one worth a visitre fine. With that being on the costly sideIn fact, this is a decent enough substitutethey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom1776572858|title=Dino DinnersHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Ask most children if dinosaurs are cool It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and you will told me that she'd get an emphatic – Yes! me a book about it. The thought that giant looming monsters once roamed A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the Earthbasics, fighting in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and eating eat one otherI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, sounds excitingbut was little ''wiser''. It is important to encourage this enthusiasm and there are loads of books that are full of dinosaur factsThankfully, but are there any full of dinosaur fun as well?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806651</amazonuk>times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carron Brown and Bee Johnson1526362759|title= On the Construction Site |rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Building buildings in the topic of this interactive book that shows construction from plans Dosh: How to completion. For the right little boy (or girl) it will no doubt be a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402691</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=The Self-Esteem Team|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to SexEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Drugs and WTFs?!!|rating= 4|genre=Teens|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because of a lack of body confidence? ShockingGrow It, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGive It|author=Steve Backshall|title=Favourite Deadly FactsRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Many people have wondered What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what limbo must feel likeyou can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. I Your reasons for one think wanting money don't matter: we all need it will be like being trapped on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book of factsto some extent. There is nothing quite like You might want to go into business, be a book about how longclever shopper, how short or how wide a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something is you really, ''really'' want to put a certain type of child in cloverbuy. This type There's also the possibility of book should come with a warning sticker on using to do good in the front as any nearby adult is going to get their ear talked off, especially if it is a bumper fact bookworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom178112938X|title=Woolly Mammoth|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Survival in Space: The Ice Age is a fascinating time, but do you think that dinosaurs still roamed the Earth alongside both man and mammoths? Ray Harryhausen has a lot to answer for and the earlier that someone learns that man and dinosaurs did not walk the land together, the better. Plus everyone knows that Woolly Mammoths are almost as cool as T-Rex – who doesn't love a hairy elephant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806643</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewApollo 13 Mission|author=Francesca Simon David Long and Tony Ross |title=A Horrid Factbook: Crazy CreaturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=The perceived wisdom is that it is harder to get young boys to read than it is young girlsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but you try telling that to my nephews. They often have their heads so far in a book the story of that their nose sticks out the other end. However, whilst journey remains one loves fiction, of the other loves factgreatest survival stories of all time. If you think about it, you could use an extremely popular fiction character to tell children some real facts and trick them; but that would be ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a horrible thing to dobrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014447</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mick Manning Kathleen Boucher and Brita GranstromSara Chadwick|title=William Shakespeare: Scenes from the life of the world’s greatest writer|rating=4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Sumptuously and appealingly illustrated, this imaginative and innovative approach to the life of William Shakespeare uses quirky comic strip style speech bubbles while also paying tribute to some of his most famous plays. Occasionally losing focus in the order of scenes from his life, which is why it’s not quite a 5 star review, it is still an entertaining and insightful introduction Nine Ways to the bard of Stratford upon Avon. This book includes maps, a bibliography, a glossary and quotations from the bard’s plays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Starbuck|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella and SimbaEmpower Tweens

|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea CoastBrash and elegant, but that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoosophisticated, blind in one eye controversial and losing vibrant, the sight 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the other. Simba was not supposed to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about a circus cage in southern France. But she wasbest, the worst and he was, the beautiful from many countries and things weren't rightcultures. LuckilyThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, the zoo was too poor to operateput on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and people were already on hand concerts to relocate stun the animalssenses. And towering above it all, the most popular and fortunately someone realised the circus was a no-starter as well, when it comes most hated monument to keeping a fully-grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters French accomplishment and daring – the two cats' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read with a heart-warming messageEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Davey1848576536|title=Mad About MonkeysHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating= 45

|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction book''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I guess monkeys are one of don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the ideal places human body to start. They are, of course, our distant cousins, with curious children- from the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within skeletal system to the past thirty million years. They have a large range across the planet, they have over 250 variant speciesmuscular system via circulation, respiration and they have a lot of interesting facts and details regarding their social lifedigestion, their diet, their diversity and their potential future – all of which right up to the DNA that makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may bewho we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cath Senker and Melvyn EvansLangford_Emily|title=Ancient Egypt in 30 Seconds: 30 Awesome Topics for Pharaoh Fanatics Explained in Half a Minute (ChildrenEmily's 30 Second)Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=EgyptEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. ItObviously, you can count anything and there's up there with dinosaursno limit to how far you can go, space travel but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and not much else that can hold a young child throughout the length of their school careereven numbers. Considering a lot Then she began counting in threes: half of them will grow up declaring they have no interest in, or the list were even a hatred for, historynumbers, but the other half was odd and it all was relevant a long, long time ago – and with Carterthis list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''s finding of King Tutthreeven's tomb closing in on its centenary it won't go away yet. There are indeed books that solely concern themselves with (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the history of our love affair with Egypt. But I guess it does boil down odd numbers but sound as though they ought to it being introduced by be a fine teacher. Whether this latest book will supplant subset of the human in giving us even numbers, but it all the lessons we need remains to be seenworked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402373</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|title=National Geographic Kids Infopedia 2016|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=Annuals. They are not what they used to be. As a child, I remember snuggling into a chair with my 1983 “Crackerjack” annual and being completely immersed by the facts, stories, jokes and activities inside. Maybe I'm getting old, but many of today's annuals seem to be little more than a few flimsy sheets of colouring paper and posters sandwiched inside a hard cover. If, as a parent, you are aching to buy your children something with a little more substance and quality, then the National Geographic Infopedia 2016 may be just what you are looking for.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1426322445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christopher EdgeBuckingham_Dawn|title=How to Write your Best Story Ever!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Oh those feared words from my primary school days – just sit and write a story. The countless hours I spent, sifting my mind for what little I knew and what I had read before, and no real guide on hand to what to put down on the page and how. How times change. This volume, for all the vivid design and hyperbolic title, might have been the best companion to the budding author version Little Book of me, for it will easily sit alongside the junior scribbler wherever s/he may be from now on. It has a beginning, middle and end (and index), and can be counted on for some great, no-nonsense advice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274352X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDawn Chorus|author=Jen Green Caz Buckingham and Wesley Robins|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsAndrea Pinnington

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the latest book in Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the innovative series from Ivy Press, which aims sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to give resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an informative indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and entertaining overview of a given subject in bitelistening to their song. Then -sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twojust because I could -page spread, with a concise description on the left, covering I went back and did it all of the main points, again and a colourful illustration on it was just as good the right hand page, complete with extra snippets of informationsecond time around. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up So, which further condenses the main idea of the chapter into a single sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula BriggsPankhurst_Women|title=Drawing Projects for ChildrenFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Drawing Projects for Children'' A lot of history is a beautiful, full-colour guide that encourages children to use a range of materials to create stunning about men. Kings and generals and inventors and thought-provoking artworkpoliticians. As the author points outSometimes, the end result is not always it feels almost as important though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as the journey role models. Of course, this isn't true and there 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 wonderful picture book helps children to move away from Kate Pankhurst, are the more traditional, or 'safe' type stories of some of drawing styles and indulge in a little more experimentation and risk takingthem. The book is ideal for parents to use with their children, but each chapter is a self-contained lesson plan that facilitators and teachers can use with groups.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908966742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna KovecsesIgnotofsky_Sport|title=One Thousand ThingsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=When you are ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just short of two years old there’s a whole lifetime of learning aheadbefore the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Where to begin? Well, you could do It celebrates a lot worse than get Mum or Dad to buy century and a copy half of the development of Anna Kovecses’ ''One Thousand Things'women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Don’t believe the mouse on the front cover holding Think of a balloon saying ''learn your first words''. To bill this book as sport and a ‘vocabulary builder’ pioneering woman succeeding at it is to woefully underplay its hand. Study hard and probably in this book will see you safely through nursery somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and in to reception as an assured four year old who can hold their own in the cut and thrust of classroom debatea striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806074</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carron Brown and Bee JohnsonRooney_Dino|title=On the TrainDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=There’s nothing me and Lift the little ‘un like more than flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a good transport themed bookchild. Tractors remain top This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of my toddler’s pops but trains run dinosaurs, we meet a close second. One glimpse variety of the cover creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I''On d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the Trainvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it'' and his little feet did s very visual, placing the happy dance. He hunkered down dinosaurs in their habitats and the journey begangiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240242X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija MetsolaMason_poo|title=ColoursThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Lift the flaps books are very popular in my houseI know, though I seldom use that term know, sometimes you really don't want to describe them. Rip the flaps encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is more apt. brilliant! I imagine fellow parents reading this review will wince sat and nod at this point whilst librarians will perspire read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and reach reflexively for the sellotape. found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn'Colours' by Aino-Maija Metsola is a lift the flaps t know about poo? The book for the manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very younginteresting and educational. As the title suggestsUsing a mixture of facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, this edition aims to teach you come away having sniggered a little at the concept vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of colour with the added spice of extra pictures hidden behind flapspoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806090</amazonuk>