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|author=Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett et al
|title=Draw It! Colour It! Creatures
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Colouring books for adults are all the rage at the moment and it's too easy to forget that adults are not the only ones who benefit from the calming, soothing therapy of colouring or the improvement in hand-eye co-ordination which comes with practice. 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 a children's colouring book to bridge the gap. ''Draw It! Colour It! Creatures'' has projects from 43 artists, well known in the field of children's book illustration, all packed together in a stylish book with flaps so that you're not going to lose your place.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290704</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson
|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to suggest that they're a bit too old for that), add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the details. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details of where the bird is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
|title=Viking Longship
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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. ''Viking Longship'' is the story of Grimm, a Viking warrior who buys a broken ship called the Sea Dragon and fixes it up to set sail in search of pastures new. The story follows Grimm's progress as he invades England with his band of warriors and then creates a farm settlement where his family can live in peace. The book touches on various aspects of Viking life before coming full circle when the settlement is raided by Saxons, culminating in a Viking funeral and a final image of the longboat in flames.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806244</amazonuk>
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