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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1839948493|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and 70 Lift-flaps!Luisa Uribe

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I wonder how much time must tell you that I've saved in not being m a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky bluesucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, 've never met one I didn't trust and why do I have a spleen? 've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. StillSo, apart from the first twoany book about dogs, those questions I'm going to sit down and the answers devour. Then I'm going to them go back and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biology, and a great source read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of quick facts for the very youngDogs'', all presented with an addictive liftninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself theaccidental owner of an American Dingo -flap approachshe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1529507987|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timesmy go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration of Independence was signedAfter a hard day, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We donthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't knowre worth. How do you pin a date You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the Renaissance, or people who own them and the invention of the modern city? memories they hold. This book may aim No expense appears to be a portrayal of key moments in spared and the experts spend as much time, but even it admits you have and effort as is required to be vague in itemising achieve the specific days and datesdesired result. Get over that, Regular viewers know the experts and the pages are packed with informationthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have I was the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I offer this piece disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of advice; donWWII, I didn't take your finger so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and track their spineoccasional failures, donbut we didn't put it dwell on those) in their mouth and donwhat came to be called 'the colonies't go following them as want to dispute what right the army had to their parent. Instead, run. Run faster than you have ever run before be there in the opposite directionfirst place. The unfortunate thing is Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that anyone with a toddler knows, they love I lacked the maturity to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got approach 'the chanceproblem' politely. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Packham Jeremy Dronfield and Jason CockcroftDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Amazing Animal BabiesFritz and Kurt|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Many children love animalsWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, but they love baby animals even moreand 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. Would you rather watch Kurt has 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 dog or watch a puppy? light switch. A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a no brainer national vote to most children who enjoy keep the wideNazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-eyed stumbling ups of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownJews. HoweverThese in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, someone needs unknown initially to give them each other, packed off on the facts about baby animals same train to Buchenwald and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1913750353|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to Britannica's Word of the Mars Rover Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and BeyondSue Macy

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some ''Britannica's Word of the history of space exploration, even if the young person Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you buy books for doesn't need to know it allabout this brilliant book. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the It starts on January 1st with ''VoyagerRazzmatazz'' space craft, and the processes we needed tells you how to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that wepronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''re not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was), gives you a definition and how other things orbited other things then includes the word in turn proving we are not a sentence so that around which everything revolves. What you might not know how it should be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audienceused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, theydon't think I've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod ever encountered a word which uses the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie0711266204|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with the added twist The Secret Life of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try to match the pairs across each double page spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara Moira Butterfield and Frau Isa|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a scientistdaily basis. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well and won a gold medal for her studiesAn hour can pass without my noticing. In PolandI've established which species feed from the ground, in which pop to the middle feeders for a quick snatch of the nineteenth century, only men were allowed to go to University, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study some food and who settles in an unfamiliar language, for a good munch but I wish I was soon the best maths and science studentmore knowledgeable. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiewould have been wonderful if, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed in as a road accidentchild, but Marie went on I'd had access to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistrybook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. Her work So – what is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso0192779230|title=Little People, Big DreamsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Agatha ChristieThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs of what the future novelist would 'Germs' seems to have become: she always had a better idea about how catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the story should end. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favouritespotential to make you ill. In the First World War Agatha, who was then first book in her early twentieswhat looks to be a very promising new series, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and toxic potions would be put accessible introduction to good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the warthinking has developed over time. Most people have heard The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of her first the trickiest concepts and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christieyou's novels were widely read ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and her plays were very popular in theatresviruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1800464495|title= Pairs 100 Ways in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get 100 Days to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process Love of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaths|author=Marc Martin|title=LotsEmma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia '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 know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is not 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 us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a 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 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 those used by adultsirrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Whilst Most people, from children to adults will have the older generation had odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are luckyit worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a small black virtue and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factssleep made to seem like laziness. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing Being up early, working late has been praised and the facts even further and bombarding ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your eyeballs with illustrationsCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu1849767343|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IICount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they The title and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end format of the line, where they this book might by hint or dint survive lead you to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to for those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in just starting out on the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the Eastnumbers journey. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[The DevilsIt isn' Alliancet: Hitlerit's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before they turned bitter enemieshymn of praise to maths. KrysiaIt's family, living in the eastern city of Lwow, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – east. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, about why maths is so wonderful and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep how you meet it in Communist Soviet landseveryday life. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1849767009|title= Infographics: TechnologyIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to discover the worldchoir': the only people who'll buy it are 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 the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. How do computers work? What It's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handydisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology'they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak1776572858|title= The Hello AtlasHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' ThatIt's more than sixty years since I asked how Azumi greets us in this babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a bookabout it. He's from Africa A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and he speaks HausaI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Do you? Don I ''knew''t worry if notmore, because youbut was little ''wiser''re about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaDosh: Animal!How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of bookwhat it is, why it matters, but how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's not always the most interestingve managed to get hold of it. A series of dry facts plastered Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all over the page with nary an image in sightneed it to some extent. This dry type of learning is never going You might want to work with some of our modern youthgo into business, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonesbe a clever shopper, than researching real ones in a book. If saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyesbuy. DK have attempted this There's also the possibility of using to do good in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to seeworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Ultimate Book of SpaceApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Space. For all the huge, empty expanse of it, itIt's a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centrein Florida, in but the hotbed story of cosmology and space science that is Leicester, is chock full journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this bookall time. It's a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out of the page, with things to turn and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a curtain wire. Within minutes brilliant retelling of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescope, and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Stationhappened. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actorBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don1889 World't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the only thing natural is worst and the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computersbeautiful from many countries and cultures. The eight ''Harry Potter'' filmsFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, also made in the UKput on art shows, needed a lot of computing power as welldance performances, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools food festivals and a keen eyeconcerts to stun the senses. What better way And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to start training French accomplishment and daring – the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1848576536|title=IncredibuildsHumanatomy: Aragog: Deluxe Model How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Book Set (Harry Potter)Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Aragog the giant spider''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, donand go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy''t invites you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models do and pieces of visual design workhonestly, he I don't see how you could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floorresist. Or, conversely, he is This informative book provides a wonderful primer about seven inches long and seven widethe human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and you put him together in a day or twodigestion, for right up to the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintsDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonLangford_Emily|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. WellObviously, you have can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a tennis ball on a string, step further and point actors so they look at it, began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spaceeven numbers. You then film Toby Jones doing Then she began counting in threes: half of the elf's lineslist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in the threes which she called ''Harry Potterthreeven'' films. You can throw in a few puppets(Actually, and now and again this confused me a gifted small person, particularly little bit at first as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of film #7… Orthe even numbers, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts but it all worked out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillwell when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry HyndmanBuckingham_Dawn|title=Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from The Little Book of the Wild Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and BeyondAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories of survival - those people who by chance, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of will, survive against all the odds. What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Survivors'at ' is a collection 'The Little Book of such stories the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of people, some the sounds of whom knew that what they were doing a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, but who didn't give upfar too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. The result is a wonderful mixture of the scariness of I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the peril birds and the glorious uplift of survivallistening to their song. It's insightful, inspirational Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all absolutely trueagain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice LetherlandPankhurst_Women|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=I've hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to cram a whole 'pocket-sized' book inread about or regard as role models. Of course, and while the book under concern here wonthis isn't comply eithertrue and there are plenty of women who, it's not far off. But it's an atlas – you knowthroughout history, one of those books that are usually clunky and hugehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, fitting awkwardly on the bottom shelf and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browsecreated something never seen before. But So here, in this is a special kind wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of atlas – it's a compendium some of details, and very small details at that, of all the tiny things on our large planetthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Lesser Spotted Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute Women in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and LinsangSport: Now is your time Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author= Rachel Williams and Carnovsky|title=IlluminatureIgnotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Like Halley''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's Cometsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, I am allowed out once every 70 yearscovering sports as diverse as swimming, or sofencing, for the nightriding, skating, and much more. On one such trip to the trendier side Think of London I was supping an ale a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in another Hipster Bar, but this one had a differencebook somewhere. The walls were covered in overlapping paintings of animals in different colours. So what? The trick was revealing said animals. The lights in the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing Each entry is a different set of creatures that reacted to that colour. It was cool after double-page spread with a few shandies, but now you can enjoy this process sober in brief biography and a new book all about using coloured lenses to find hidden animalsstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerRooney_Dino|title=Gruffalo Crumble Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Other RecipesSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=It is hard to imagine, but Lift the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years agoflap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This is one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a franchise that just keeps rolling on. Certainlyvariety 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 can buy what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book or the sequel, but if you visit creates a shop you will find Gruffalo toysdinosaur experience, cardsrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea of how to push placing the Gruf dinosaurs in their habitats and palsgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination. 2016 is the year of the recipe book, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page TsouMason_poo|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest OceanThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=3.5

|summary=The greatest thing a good library can do is lie in waitI know, holding the weight of the entire world on its shelves. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship ofI know, it can also store a huge gamut of facts, opinions and true tales, transporting a reader when they choose to take a book down and read it wherever they sometimes you really don't want to go. This encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is one of those that can take you places, too – 3.6 metres down into the earth, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; or to the hottest or driest, or most rained-on place. It can take you back to prehistory and size you up against the biggest raptors and other dinosaurs, or to the centre of the very earth itself. There the pressure is akin to having the entire Empire State Building brilliant! I sat on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor|title=Secrets of the Sea|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When the young are urged to explore the world around them, we adults never state read it, but there's a huge section of by myself when the world they are quite unlikely kids had gone to go investigating in. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter it, school and while found it's huge it's not on every doorstep. fascinating! Who knew there was so much Ididn'm talking t know about the ocean, of course – which is where books such as this come in to explain and illustrate the topic. With so much of it poo? The book manages to be researched both funny (and encountered, you never know – this book might silly) as well inspire a pioneering discovery some time in the future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zoe Ingram|title=Press Out and Colour: Birds|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayon. You've got to remember to do both the back being very interesting and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched it's in no way essentialeducational. If you're skillful, so much the better, but the designs are decorated with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which you see on the edges Using a mixture of birds' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented with pressing them out first facts and then colouringfigures, but the pieces were easier to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katie Scott photographs and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Welcome to funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the Museum'' it says vulture who poos on the front cover and I'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I've never associated museums with living plants, its own feet but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One also knowing a lot about different types of the authorspoo, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museumpoos smell, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>