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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson1839948493|title=Mind Your HeadA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft1529507987|title=Amazing Animal JourneysThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina Wilsdon024162343X|title=Ultimate ReptileopediaStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5
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|summary=Have you ever wanted to know more about reptiles? I was the bad company other people got into at school. Scratch thatI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Have you ever wanted to seemingly know everything that there ever Where was to know about reptilesthe proof? If In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't somuch want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, you donbut we didn't just need a normal encyclopaedia that will have a page or two dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the subjectarmy had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but a Reptileopedia I regret that has more information and images of reptiles in it than you could shake a snake atI lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426321031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Meredith Hooper Jeremy Dronfield and Chris CoadyDavid Ziggy Greene|title= The Drop in My DrinkFritz and Kurt|rating= 54|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= This brilliant book tells We start with the story pair of where water comes from brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in a wonderfully captivating way. In full colour picture book style1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it does far more than explain scientific facts about our planet, comes to the way life synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has evolved 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 where our water comes frominstead 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. It takes These in their turn leave the reader on younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an inspiringevacuation to Britain or the US, exciting while Fritz and eye-opening journey through millions of years – his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same journey one little drop train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of water in one child' cup may have taken!all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807143</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Thurlby1913750353|title= L is for London|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenBritannica'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 Word 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>}}{{newreviewDay|author=Peter Goes|title=TimelinePatrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Tick followed tock followed tick followed tockBritannica's Word of the 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'' Once, that is, wetells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''d got over the Big Bang), which of course was silent. We flash forwards gives you a few billion years to definition and then includes the creation of the earth, have word in a quick look at prehistory, then sentence so that you know how it's in with the world's happenings we can should be sure of and date accuratelyused. This book makes You also get an attempt at conveying it all along one river of time – albeit with many tributaries – engaging and with a strong visual style points us to all that is important about our past along the wayfrequently amusing illustration too. Flick through it backwards and you can recreate a different Guinness advert to the one I quoted – but itdon't think I's probably worth ve ever encountered a much longer look.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570693</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helaine Becker and Brendan Mullan0711266204|title=Everything Space The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (National Geographic Kids Everythingillustrator)|rating=35
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|summary=It has to be said that too many children habitually want to be involved in I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the dangerous jobs – firefighter, sportsman, pilot, racing car driver, astronautvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Yes, looking up at I've established which species feed from the Milky Way or seeing planets and suns drift around in planetariums or movies seems particularly benignground, but you have to bear in mind astronauts have which pop to face severe G-force pressures when they take off, put themselves into the hands feeders for a quick snatch of thousands of scientists, engineers some food and so on to keep them safe, and face who settles in for a lot when they do get out theregood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It seems it's just another job would have been wonderful if, as a child should be safely steered away from aspiring to. Luckily there is both so much we know about space, and so much we have yet I'd had access to learn, that they can have a satisfying life in that world from a cosy room in an observatorybook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Books like this are designed to be the first step through those doors So – a primer in all things from the biggest galactic clusters to the tiniest particles of dark matter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426320744</amazonuk>what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various Artists0192779230|title=Doctor WhoVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Colouring BookInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In my youth colouring books were popular for children: they helped to teach some valuable skills. But teachers, 'expertsGerms', thought that they stifled creativity and once you'd mastered being able seems to have become a catch-all word to stick within cover anything unpleasant which has the lines they were whisked away as being 'childish' and potential to make you were restricted to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in scienceill. The fact that colouring could In the first book in what looks to be relaxing a very promising new series, OUP and fun had been forgotten. Fortunately times Isabel Thomas have changed: adults are encouraged provided a clear and accessible introduction to relax with one of the hundreds world of colouring books now available germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and Ihow the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'm delighted to see speak like a resurgence scientist' which explains some of the idea for not just the youngest children but for those whotrickiest concepts and you're a bit older tooll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca Stadtlander1800464495|title=Style Guide: Fashion From Head 100 Ways in 100 Days to Toe|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=In ''Style GuideTeach Your Baby Maths: 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 Support All Areas 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 Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a picture Love 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>}}{{newreviewMaths|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely BookEmma Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=If ''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 subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you still 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.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of Stampy us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as the elephant in ''beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The SimpsonsAwesome 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 for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I', you need ve got loads to get with itbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. For one thingMost people, TV from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is so last century – now only likely to make itworse. And there's all about Minecraft and other computer game worldsalso the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and often second-screening between different new media at the same timesleep made to seem like laziness. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasksBeing up early, pranks working late has been praised and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used the ability to invite us survive on little sleep has almost become something to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>put on your CV.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero1849767343|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=24.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary= IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it've often shouted at people s either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nationthe numbers journey. People just donIt isn't seem to have learnt about or been : it's a hymn of praise to other areas of the place they call homemaths. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programmeIt's cash prize, I can imagine that about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it would be much harder for them 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 own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly bookeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al1849767009|title=Draw It! Colour It! CreaturesIsn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Colouring This could have been one of those books for adults are all which 'preaches to the rage at choir': the moment and only people who'll buy it's too easy to forget are the people who know that adults are not nudity is OK and the only ones who benefit from the calming, soothing therapy of colouring or ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the improvement in handhot-eye coand-ordination which comes with practicebothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. Children's picture books have tended to be flimsier and not put together with quite such panache or by such well-known names, but we now have But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a children's colouring book to bridge the gapabout not wearing clothes. ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has projects from 43 artists, well known in the field s a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of childrenevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They's book illustrationre fine. In fact, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that youthey're not going to lose your placewonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson1776572858|title=Diary of How Do You Make a Time TravellerBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=With the usual complaint It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'History is Boring!', Augustus slumps over his school desk – until his teacher, d get me a certain Professor Tempo, comes to his aidbook about it. She gives him A couple of days later I was handed a notebook and yellow pencil and says he should imagine himself pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in a place clinical language which had never been used in the past to see how interesting our house before) and I was told that it actually could wouldn't bediscussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. And lo and behold heI ''knew's there, seeing the world of the past's effect on the world of the present for his very own eyes. He ends up doing this more than a couple dozen times, filling the notebook with amazing sights hebut was little ''wiser's seen and people he's stood alongside. Thankfully, from Mozart to Einstein, from Chaucer to Lincoln, and what we read is what he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volumetimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teal Triggs and Daniel Frost1526362759|title=The School of ArtDosh: Learn How To Make Great Art With 40 Simple Lessonsto Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Written with an interesting approach, this book treats the reader as What a new art student to The School of Art. relief! The five professors A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of the school take the student through 40 different lessonswhat it is, why it matters, looking at a huge range of ideas right from how to draw a line, perspective acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and proportion, composition and aestheticswhat you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Aimed probably at senior school children Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it could, howeverto some extent. You might want to go into business, also be used by older primary children who are particularly interested in arta clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and if there might be something you were working through really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the book with your child then a younger child could also try out some possibility of using to do good in the lesson ideas and suggestionsworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Ford178112938X|title=StarsSurvival in Space: A Family Guide to the Night SkyThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=If an innovative book and a beautiful piece of art got together and had offspringIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the result would probably look a lot like an Ivy Press publication. This publisher never ceases to impress and their books are story of that journey remains one of the kind greatest survival stories of ones that you keep to pass onto subsequent generationsall time. With this in mind, I was excited to receive a lovely children 's book called ''StarsSurvival in Space: A Family Guide to the Night SkyThe Apollo 13 Mission'' for review, which invites families to ''explore the cosmos from your own backyard''. Would it live up to the standard is a brilliant retelling of its predecessors? I was getting starry-eyed in anticipation.what happened..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402764</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford Kathleen Boucher and Professor Anil SethSara Chadwick|title=Brain Twisters: The Science 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 Thinking 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 Feelingyounger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Meet Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by 1889 World'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the 10% of urban myth) every second of worst and the daybeautiful from many countries and cultures. We engage with different parts of it for balanceThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, catching a ballput on art shows, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game characterdance performances, or understanding things ranging from written instruction food festivals and concerts to body languagestun the senses. It's such a vital part of And towering above it all, the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied most popular and complex book, looking at a varied the most hated monument to French accomplishment and complex subject, I do wonder if daring – the right approach has been taken at all timesEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams1848576536|title=The Wonder GardenHumanatomy: Wander through How the world's wildest habitats Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and discover more than 80 amazing animalsJem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things in fiction books''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, on TV and in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – with go inside your insides!'' That's what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which ''Humanatomy'' invites you to godo and honestly, and a willingness to exploreI don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides those gates – there they are, shining luxuriously on a wonderful primer about the cover of this jumbo-sized hardback. And in five easy-human body tocurious children-take steps, from the rest of skeletal system to the book provides for that explorationmuscular system via circulation, taking us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters of the Great Barrier Reefrespiration and digestion, and right up – to deserts and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forest. And the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look atDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryLangford_Emily|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ItEmily found words ''useful's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewing, but this time it's worth a mentioncounting was what she loved best. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card coverObviously, as opposed you can count anything and there's no limit to the gloss of others in this format from this publisherhow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and so looks began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and feels like an old stamp catalogueeven numbers. The title image is indeed a stampThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, stuck on but the centre other half was odd and it was this list of the cover. And just as all stamps the world over are practically the same yet completely different odd numbers which occurred when you counted in design, so are the worldthrees which she called ''threeven''s cities. The point of (Actually, this book is to bring the common elements confused me a little bit at first as well as the unique features they're a subset of all the world's capitals to the fore, odd numbers but sound as though they ought 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 visit. With that being on subset of the costly sideeven numbers, this is a decent enough substitutebut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromBuckingham_Dawn|title=Dino DinnersThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ask most children if dinosaurs are cool and you will get an emphatic – YesWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The thought that giant looming monsters once roamed Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the Earth, fighting sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and eating eat one other, sounds excitingrather wet February morning. It is important I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to encourage this enthusiasm their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and there are loads of books that are full of dinosaur factsit was just as good the second time around. So, but are there any full of dinosaur fun as wellwhat do you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Carron Brown and Bee JohnsonPankhurst_Women|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 to completion. For the right little boy (or girl) it will no doubt be a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402691</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|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? Shocking, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Favourite Deadly FactsKate Pankhurst|rating=45
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|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo must feel likeA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. I for one think Sometimes, it will be feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like being trapped on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of facts. There is nothing quite like a book about how longwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, how short or how wide created something is to put a certain type of child never seen before. So here, in clover. This type of this wonderful picture book should come with a warning sticker on from Kate Pankhurst, are the front as any nearby adult is going to get their ear talked off, especially if it is a bumper fact bookstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mick Manning and Brita GranstromIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Woolly MammothWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Ice Age ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a fascinating time, but do you think that dinosaurs still roamed the Earth alongside both man century and mammoths? Ray Harryhausen has a lot to answer for and half of the earlier that someone learns that man and dinosaurs did not walk the land togetherdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, the better. Plus everyone knows that Woolly Mammoths are almost covering sports as cool diverse as Tswimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-Rex – who doesn't love page spread with a brief biography and a hairy elephant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806643</amazonuk>striking portrait.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross Rooney_Dino|title=A Horrid Factbook: Crazy CreaturesDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=3.54
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|summary=The perceived wisdom is that it is harder to get young boys to read than it is young girlsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you try telling that what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to my nephews. They often have their heads so far in accompany them! The book creates a book that their nose sticks out the other end. Howeverdinosaur experience, whilst one loves fiction, the other loves fact. If you think rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, you could use an extremely popular fiction character to tell children some real facts placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and trick them; but giving us sounds too that would be a horrible thing to dospike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014447</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita GranstromMason_poo|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>}}{{newreviewThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Sara Starbuck|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella Paul Mason and SimbaTony de Saulles|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bella was not supposed I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakersencourage your children' photos on the Black Sea Coasts poo jokes, but that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye this book is brilliant! I sat and losing read it by myself when the sight in the other. Simba kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was not supposed so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a circus cage in southern France. But she was, mixture of facts and he wasfigures, photographs and things weren't right. Luckilyfunny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the zoo was too poor to operate, and people were already vulture who poos on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was its own feet but also knowing a no-starter as welllot about different types of poo, when it comes to keeping a fully-grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to onewhy poos smell, in this great little read with a heart-warming messageand why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>
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