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|author=Adam Ford

|title=Stars: A Family Guide to the Night Sky

|rating=5

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction

|summary=If an innovative book and a beautiful piece of art got together and had offspring, the result would probably look a lot like an Ivy Press publication. This publisher never ceases to impress and their books are the kind of ones that you keep to pass onto subsequent generations. With this in mind, I was excited to receive a lovely children's book called ''Stars: A Family Guide to the Night Sky'' for review, 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...

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402764</amazonuk>

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|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth

|summary=''Fly on the Wall'' is a new series of history books by award-winning duo Manning and Granström, which aim to bring history to life for young readers. ''Roman Fort'' follows the adventures of Centurion Vespian as he escorts the lady Lepidina and her son to the safety of the Roman fort to celebrate her best friend's birthday. Along the way, the story touches on various aspects of Roman life, including clothing, family life, buildings and religion.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806252</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Quentin Blake~~

~~|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures in Looking at Art~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressive.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form a narrative''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>~~

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