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|summary=The misuse I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of language is a modern disease'god'. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendousWhere was the proof? In history lessons, but were you truly awed by it? was probably worse still. Or stupefied? People just seem Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to pluck words out of learn about the ether British army's successes (and pretend occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that they are I lacked the correct onesmaturity to approach 'the problem' politely. Are the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy GutierrezI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the language is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but in appearance they are absolutely vileStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938289</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jojo SiwaJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Jojo's Guide to the Sweet LifeFritz and Kurt|rating= 54|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= JoJo We start with the Bow Bow has written a Book Book! And without meaning pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to sound like my expectations were lowdo – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it was surprisingly goodcomes 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 using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I say But this because we know JoJo as is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the girl from Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Dance MomsKristallnacht'' with happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the outspoken mother (well, one round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the outspoken mothers) who is known for her dancing younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the big bows she wearsUS, more than for her brains. And yet this book shows us another sidewhile Fritz and his father are, a side in which she is an articulateunknown initially to each other, insightful packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and intelligent young womanthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419728172</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet1913750353|title= Stupendous ScienceBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That''Britannica's Word of the secret behind the experiments in Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus''Stupendous Sciencewhich probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' They have the fun element, the tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''wow factor),' gives you a definition and most importantly, can then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the homeused. Each experiment teaches You also get an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through playengaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber0711266204|title= Optical IllusionsThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I used to work as have recently discovered a library assistant great pleasure: I sit and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all watch the vast numbers of my fellow librarians crowded around birds which visit our garden on a book, chattering excitedly anddaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing..squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye' I' ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures who settles in for a certain waygood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. For It would have been wonderful if, as a brief period in the early 90schild, the pictures I'd had access to a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book such as ''Optical Illusions.The Secret Life of Birds''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>. So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou0192779230|title=Make and PlayVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: NativityThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with Germs' seems to have become a tree catch-all word to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) cover anything unpleasant which is set up Somewhere Safehas the potential to make you ill. Where's the imagination, the creativity, In the sense of pride first book in that? How much better what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. That's exactly We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they get with Joey Chouthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's speak like a scientist'which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'Make ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and Play Nativity''viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1800464495|title=50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=The Vikings have got a lot ''Babies seem to own up to. A huge DNA study be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in 2014 was the first thing 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 a strong predictor of later achievement, double that proved to the Orkney residents 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 had Viking blood start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in their veins – they had been insisting 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 was follows that of the Irishgiving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Vikings it was 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 forced statement. Lots of our English kingroutines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s army who needs sleep? - I've got loads to march be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from London children to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the namemake it worse. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from And there's also the coast – fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a Viking longship on its signpostvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. YesBeing up early, they got working late has been praised and the ability to a lot of places, from Greenland survive on little sleep has almost become something to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly put on these pagesyour CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Count on Me|author=Emily Hawkins Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The title and format of this book 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 numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful and Lucy Letherlandhow you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Atlas It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of Dinosaur Adventuresthose books which 'preaches to the choir': Step Into 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. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a Prehistoric Worldcelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Home and Family|summary=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 book about it. 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 I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might thinkWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little what you can do with it when you've managed to say about them that hadn't been said, and few new ways get hold of giving us information about themit. Well, I would put Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to you that this is a novel variantsome extent. Over many jumbo spreadsYou might want to go into business, we get be a different dinosaur in clever shopper, a different situation each time, whether it saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be being bornsomething you really, being slain or learning ''really'' want to fly, buy. There's also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the book gives us all Apollo 13 mission was launched from the usual facts, not Kennedy Space Centre in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashionFlorida, but grouped by where these dinosaurs livedthe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, and Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Long Kathleen Boucher and Harry BloomSara Chadwick|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|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 accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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|isbn=1609809173
|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It's becoming easier Brash and easier to spot books for the young about pirates – that surely is about the only career from the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about it. It must be a combination of the derring-doelegant, the illegalitysophisticated, controversial and of course vibrant, the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one country1889 World's attacks on anotherFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and reading about how treasures, slaves the beautiful from many countries and other resources changed handscultures. This volumeThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, howeverdance performances, tries its best food festivals and concerts to stand outstun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and has adopted the equally prevalent concept of getting the reader most hated monument to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden in French accomplishment and daring – the images. For once, though, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind itEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1848576536|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating= 45 |genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Build ItGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to science to show do and honestly, I don't see how scientific ideas can be applied you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to realcurious children-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity from the skeletal system to demonstrate topics such as air travelthe muscular system via circulation, programmable machines, light, motion respiration and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in minddigestion, so there is a focus on right up to the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toysDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris MaddenLangford_Emily|title=We Travel So FarEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The lead singer of Foreigner said Emily found words ''useful'I've travelled so far to change this lonely life, but counting was what she loved best.'' WellObviously, heyou can count anything and there's gone nowhere in comparison no limit to many of these creatureshow far you can go, who probably wouldn't call their life lonely, eitherbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Masses Then she began counting in threes: half of animals gather, herd, schoolthe list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and fly it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in unison, and all make their migration to change their livesthrees which she called ''threeven''. Some hide from the danger of winter storms(Actually, many seek the food this confused me a little bit at first as they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up 're a volcano to lay eggs in subset of the one place odd numbers but sound as though they know will keep them warm. It might seem ought to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect subset of animal naturethe even numbers, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly worksall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=DKCaz 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5
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|summary=Having the Internet in the home for a child to learn from A lot of history is all well about men. Kings and generals and inventors and goodpoliticians. Sometimes, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, feels almost as though there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is were no use for the women in history at all, let alone ones young mind girls might like to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amassedread about or regard as role models. NoOf course, you need someone authoritative enough to come along this isn't true and collate the important bitsthere are plenty of women who, letting you learn just enoughthroughout history, and the key have achieved amazing things you do need to knowor shown incredible bravery, all from one placeor created something never seen before. This So here, in this wonderful picture book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaediafrom Kate Pankhurst, that has to be said, but its large format puts it on are the shelf next to them, and its colourful and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, at least stories of the modern kind. What it has decided to do is to structure the world into certain subjects, and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range some of topics it has amassedthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKIgnotofsky_Sport|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
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|summary=The animal kingdom ''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 sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse oneas swimming, full of creatures that do all sorts of thingsfencing, riding, skating, and much more. The number Think of animals out there a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears probably in their practicethis book somewhere. For budding vetEach entry is a double-to-be animals are page spread with a constant source of fascination brief biography and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia isa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKRooney_Dino|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' bookschild. 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 it was a treasure trove for me and some I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to find out information for myself , with background noises, roars and how squawks to use an index. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In formataccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, in size and content rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoMason_poo|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and 70 Lift-flaps!Tony de Saulles
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when know, I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. Weknow, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children've got in touch with them perhaps being feathereds poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing read it by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need I didn't know about poo? The book manages to be on board with the job both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a mixture of discovering them, analysing themfacts and figures, photographs and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nastyfunny cartoons, superlative beasties of Hollywood renown. As you're come away having sniggered a little at the kind vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of person to ask questionspoo, why poos smell, you may well ask 'how and why wombats do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionssquare poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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