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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero1839948493|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Coco Chanel|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in a French town and after the death A World of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was ''different'' didn't make her life ''easy'', but there were early indications that she was going to be a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shop. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new style. Her clothes were simple, straight and comfortable to wear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Jason Quinn Carlie Sorosiak and Naresh Kumar|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=World War Two – so often a lesson subject for our primary school children, even after all this time. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasn't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in a fuller story – the half of the war that was never seen by those in Europe, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher in India that can serve at last as a salutary lesson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lewis Helfand and Lalit Kumar Sharma|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)|rating=4

|summary=One In the interests of the most common subjects at primary schoolfull disclosure, getting on I must tell you that I'm a sucker for three generations since it happeneddogs. In nearly eight decades, is I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of course World War Twothem. It has I wish I felt the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if itsame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I's taught correctlym going to sit down and devour. One of the ways Then I'm going to present go back and read it is this bookproperly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', which comes from a slightly surprising place – with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competent, complete and really American Dingo - she's learned quite readablea lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft1529507987|title=Amazing Animal JourneysThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year my go-to programme when I want to take advantage of the weather or the availability of foodbe cheered up. After a hard day, but wild life has been doing it for much longer and every year billions of animals move from one part of the planet to another - thatthere's birdsnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and insectsthe memories they hold. This is known No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as migration - much time and it's a real pleasure effort as is required to see it used other than in achieve the context of sensationalist newspaper headlinesdesired result. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction to Regular viewers know the subject experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroftre doing. (He's the man who But how did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christina Wilsdon|title=Ultimate Reptileopedia|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Have you ever wanted to know more about reptiles? Scratch that. Have you ever wanted to seemingly know everything that there ever was to know about reptiles? If so, you don't just need a normal encyclopaedia that will have a page or two on the subject, but a Reptileopedia that has more information and images of reptiles in it than you could shake a snake at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426321031</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meredith Hooper and Chris Coady|title= The Drop in My Drink|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= This brilliant book tells the story of where water comes from in a wonderfully captivating way. In full colour picture book style, it does far more than explain scientific facts about our planet, the way life has evolved and where our water comes from. It takes the reader on an inspiring, exciting and eye-opening journey through millions of years – the same journey one little drop of water in one child' cup may have taken!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807143</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Paul Thurlby024162343X|title= L is for London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I spend a lot of time in London for work, and we tend to walk to a lot of our destinations which works out quite well since London days are long days and long days tend not to include time for the gym. But, as you walk from Euston to Waterloo or Elephant and Castle, you also get to see a lot of a wonderful city. I've never lived there, but I feel like every week I know it a little better. This book is London all over and whether you live elsewhere in the UK or further afield, it's a fantastic way to learn more about the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491877X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Peter Goes|title=TimelineSathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Tick followed tock followed tick followed tock.'' Once, that is, we'd got over the Big Bang, which of course was silent. We flash forwards a few billion years to the creation of the earth, have a quick look at prehistory, then it's in with the world's happenings we can be sure of and date accurately. This book makes an attempt at conveying it all along one river of time – albeit with many tributaries – and with a strong visual style points us to all that is important about our past along the way. Flick through it backwards and you can recreate a different Guinness advert to the one I quoted – but it's probably worth a much longer look.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Helaine Becker and Brendan Mullan|title=Everything Space (National Geographic Kids Everything)|rating=3

|summary=It has to be said that too many children habitually want to be involved in I was the dangerous jobs – firefighter, sportsman, pilot, racing car driver, astronautbad company other people got into at school. Yes, looking up at the Milky Way or seeing planets and suns drift around I was disruptive in planetariums or movies seems particularly benign, but you have to bear in mind astronauts have to face severe G-force pressures when they take off, put themselves into religious education classes because I disputed the hands existence of thousands of scientists, engineers and so on to keep them safe, and face a lot when they do get out there'god'. It seems Where was the proof? In history lessons, it's just another job a child should be safely steered away from aspiring towas probably worse still. Luckily there is both so much we know about spaceNot too long after the end of WWII, and I didn't so much we have yet want to learnabout the British army's successes (and occasional failures, that they can have a satisfying life but we didn't dwell on those) in that world from a cosy room in an observatory. Books like this are designed what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first step through those doors – a primer in all things from place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the biggest galactic clusters maturity to approach 'the tiniest particles of dark matterproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426320744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various ArtistsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular 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 children: they helped to teach some valuable skillsusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But teachers, 'expertsthis is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, thought that they stifled creativity and once you'd mastered being able instead of having a national vote to stick within keep the lines they were whisked away as being Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'childish' and you were restricted to artistic completion of maps happened in Vienna just as much as in geography or illustrations Germany, as did all the round-ups of experiments in scienceJews. The fact that colouring could be relaxing These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and fun had been forgotten. Fortunately times have changed: adults are encouraged sisters anxious to relax with one hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the hundreds of colouring books now available US, while Fritz and I'm delighted his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to see a resurgence of Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the idea titular event for not just the youngest children but for those who're a bit older too.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1913750353|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, thereBritannica'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 Word 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>}}{{newreviewDay|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely BookPatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=35

|summary=If you still think ''Britannica's Word of Stampy as the elephant in Day'' has a sub-title: ''The Simpsons366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'', which probably tells you all that you need to get know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with it. For one thing''Razzmatazz'', TV is so last century – now tells you how to pronounce it(''s all about Minecraft and other computer game worldsraz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and often second-screening between different new media at then includes the same time. So why does this book from word in a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme sentence so that you know how it should be used to invite us to turn off . You also get an engaging and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero0711266204|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=2.5

|summary= I've often shouted at people have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nationa daily basis. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call homeAn hour can pass without my noticing. But while they get little sympathy I've established which species feed from me when they lose the programme's cash prizeground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I can imagine that it wish I was more knowledgeable. It would be much harder for them have been wonderful if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their ownchild, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all thatI's relevant would take d had access to a lot book such as ''The Secret Life of research Birds''. So – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al0192779230|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Colouring books for adults are all the rage at the moment and it's too easy Germs' seems to forget that adults are not the only ones who benefit from the calming, soothing therapy of colouring or the improvement in handhave become a catch-eye co-ordination all word to cover anything unpleasant which comes with practicehas the potential to make you ill. Children's picture books have tended In the first book in what looks to be flimsier a very promising new series, OUP and not put together with quite such panache or by such well-known names, but we now Isabel Thomas have provided a children's colouring book clear and accessible introduction to bridge the gapworld of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Draw It! Colour It! Creatureswhich explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'' has projects from 43 artistsll soon be familiar with bacteria, well known in the field of children's book illustrationfungi, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going to lose your placeprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson1800464495|title=Diary 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Time TravellerLove of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=With ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the usual complaint that womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn'History is Boringt!How about: ', Augustus slumps over his 'Maths ability on entry to school desk – until his teacheris a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a certain Professor Tempogood start in literacy - reading stories, comes to his aid. She teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives him children a notebook and yellow pencil and says he should imagine himself solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in a place part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in the past to see how interesting daily life without realising and it actually could follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will bejust as beneficial. }} And lo and behold he's there, seeing the world {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of the past's effect on the world 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 the present our routines have been completely dismantled and for his very own eyessome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. He ends up doing Some teens will dismiss this more than a couple dozen times, filling the notebook with amazing sights heas irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I's seen ve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people he's stood alongside, from Mozart children to Einstein, from Chaucer adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to Lincolnmake it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and what we read is what he comes sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up with in this brisk early, working late has been praised and colourful volumethe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost1849767343|title=The School of Art: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple LessonsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Written with an interesting approach, The title and format of this book treats might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the reader as a new art student to The School of Artnumbers journey. The five professors of the school take the student through 40 different lessons, looking at It isn't: it's a huge range hymn of ideas right from how praise to draw a line, perspective and proportion, composition and aestheticsmaths. Aimed probably at senior school children It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could, however, also be used by older primary children have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who 'll buy it are particularly interested the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in art, and if you were working through the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book with your child then about not wearing clothes. It's a younger child could also try out some celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of the lesson ideas every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and suggestionsmarkings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Ford1776572858|title=Stars: A Family Guide to the Night SkyHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=If an innovative book It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a beautiful piece book about it. A couple of art got together and days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had offspring, the result would probably look a lot like an Ivy Press publication. This publisher never ceases to impress been used in our house before) and their books are the kind of ones I was told that you keep to pass onto subsequent generationsit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. With this in mind, I was excited to receive a lovely children's book called ''Stars: A Family Guide to the Night Skyknew'' for reviewmore, which invites families to but was little ''explore the cosmos from your own backyardwiser''. Would it live up to the standard of its predecessors? I was getting starry-eyed in anticipation.. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402764</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth1526362759|title=Brain TwistersDosh: The Science of Thinking and FeelingHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet the brain. What a relief! We all have one. We all use 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 by 'what you can do with itwhen you' I mean a heck of a lot more ve managed to get hold of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it for balanceto some extent. You might want to go into business, catching be a ballclever shopper, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game charactersaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, or understanding things ranging from written instruction ''really'' want to body languagebuy. ItThere's such a vital part of also the body, taking up 20% possibility of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But using to do good in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timesworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and discover more than 80 amazing animalsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things in fiction books, on TV and Kennedy Space Centre in games can be fabulousFlorida, but can they compete – really – with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which to go, and a willingness to explore. This book provides those gates – there they are, shining luxuriously on the cover story of this jumbo-sized hardback. And in five easy-to-take steps, the rest that journey remains one of the book provides for that exploration, taking us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters greatest survival stories of the Great Barrier Reef, and up – to deserts and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forestall time. And the trip ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is nothing if not spectacular to look ata brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Haake Kathleen Boucher and Georgia CherrySara Chadwick|title=City Atlas: Discover the Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world with 30 city mapsaccessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=It's not every time I mention Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the feel of the book I'm reviewing, but this time it1889 World's worth a mention. This volume has been lavishly presented Fair in a roughened card coverParis encompassed the best, as opposed to the gloss of others in this format worst and the beautiful from this publisher, and so looks many countries and feels like an old stamp cataloguecultures. The title image is indeed a stampFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, stuck put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the centre of the coversenses. And just as towering above it all stamps the world over are practically the same yet completely different in design, so are the world's cities. The point of this book is to bring most popular and the common elements as well as the unique features of all the world's capitals to the fore, most hated monument to show that while a city may be a city is a city, their constant variety is what makes each French accomplishment and every one worth a visit. With that being on daring – the costly side, this is a decent enough substituteEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom1848576536|title=Dino DinnersHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=3.5

|summary=Ask most children if dinosaurs are cool and you will get an emphatic – Yes! The thought that giant looming monsters once roamed the Earth''Get under your own skin, fighting and eating eat one otherpick your brains, sounds exciting. It is important to encourage this enthusiasm and there are loads of books that are full of dinosaur facts, but are there any full of dinosaur fun as well?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carron Brown and Bee Johnson|title= On the Construction Site |rating= 4|genre= Childrengo inside your insides!'s Non-Fiction|summary= Building buildings in the topic of this interactive book that shows construction from plans 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 Sex, 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?

ShockingThat's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, isnI don't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>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|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLangford_Emily|title=Favourite Deadly FactsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Many people have wondered Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what limbo must feel likeshe loved best. I for one think it will be like being trapped on Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book of factsstep further and began counting in twos. There is nothing quite like a book She knew all about how longodd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, how short or how wide something is to put a certain type but the other half was odd and it was this list of child odd numbers which occurred when you counted in cloverthrees which she called ''threeven''. This type (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of book should come with a warning sticker on the front odd numbers but sound as any nearby adult is going though they ought to get their ear talked offbe a subset of the even numbers, especially if but it all worked out well when I really thought about it is a bumper fact book.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|amazonuktitle=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mick Manning and Brita GranstromPankhurst_Women|title=Woolly MammothFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=The Ice Age A lot of history is a fascinating time, but do you think that dinosaurs still roamed the Earth alongside both man about men. Kings and mammoths? Ray Harryhausen has a lot to answer for generals and the earlier that someone learns that man inventors and dinosaurs did not walk the land togetherpoliticians. Sometimes, the better. Plus everyone knows that Woolly Mammoths are it feels almost as cool though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as T-Rex – who doesnrole models. Of course, this isn't love a hairy elephant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806643</amazonuk>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 from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross Ignotofsky_Sport|title=A Horrid FactbookWomen in Sport: Crazy CreaturesFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=The perceived wisdom ''Women in Sport'' is that it is harder coming to get young boys to read than it is young girls, but you try telling that to my nephewsus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. They often have their heads so far in It celebrates a century and a book that their nose sticks out half of the other end. Howeverdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, whilst one loves fictionskating, the other loves factand much more. If you think about Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it, you could use an extremely popular fiction character to tell children some real facts is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and trick them; but that would be a horrible thing to dostriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014447</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromRooney_Dino|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 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>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Sara Starbuck|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella Anne Rooney and SimbaSuzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Bella Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a model for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coastvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but that probably happened some I'd never heard of before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, blind in one eye and losing showing you what the sight in the other. Simba was not supposed various dinosaurs are getting up to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about a circus cage in southern France. But she was, and he waswith background noises, roars and things weren't right. Luckily, the zoo was too poor squawks to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was accompany them! The book creates a no-starter as welldinosaur experience, when rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it comes to keeping a fully-grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to ones very visual, placing the dinosaurs in this great little read with a heart-warming messagetheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen DaveyMason_poo|title=Mad About MonkeysThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating= 45

|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book, is brilliant! I guess monkeys are one of sat and read it by myself when the ideal places kids had gone to startschool and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. They are, Using a mixture of coursefacts and figures, our distant cousinsphotographs and funny cartoons, with the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million years. They have you come away having sniggered a large range across little at the planet, they have over 250 variant species, and they have vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of interesting facts and details regarding their social lifepoo, their dietwhy poos smell, their diversity and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may bewhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>