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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State1839948493|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=Learning to codeIn the interests of full disclosure, even heading into my seventh decadeI must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, changed my life I've never met one I didn't trust and for todayI's children it's important because it opens so many doorsve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. It might look complicatedSo, but all it required is concentration any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and - eventually - imaginationdevour. Then I had a reasonable mastery of the skills of basic HTML in three days with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where 'm going to go if you don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? back and read it properly. And so it was with ''Get Coding!A World of Dogs'' seems like , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the perfect answeraccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills1529507987|title=Top Of The League Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5

|summary=Football is known as I was the beautiful game and when bad company other people got into at school. I was younger disruptive in religious education classes because I kind disputed the existence of believed thisa 'god'. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There Where was even the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. proof? As I have grown olderIn history lessons, my cynicism has grown tooit was probably worse still. Leicester may be championsNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for colonies' as want to dispute what right the everyman, will army had to be a sad onethere in the first place. Perhaps Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the love of football still burns bright in maturity to approach 'the youth of today? problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Top Of the LeagueStolen History'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin MilesJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide for KidsFritz and Kurt

|summary=I've always been fascinated by maps'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on a piece of paper ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and then passed Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to someone else to interpretknow about this brilliant book. Making or reading maps are skills which stay It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you throughout life and learning 'how topronounce it (' is relatively simple 'raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and great fun. Author Justin Miles had then includes the word in a car accident in 1999 and brain injuries meant sentence so that he had to learn to walk you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and talk from scratchfrequently amusing illustration too. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become I don't think I've ever encountered a full time explorer and to support charities word which inspire children to learn. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring the Arctic, crossing deserts and cutting his way through uses the jungle. If a man knows about maps, then it's Justin Miles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg0711266204|title=The Ancient EgyptiansSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=There was more to the Ancient Egyptians than keeping I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the entrails vast numbers of their dead in a jar, but that is birds which visit our garden on a pretty cool fact anywaydaily basis. As a civilisation they knocked around for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an AspAn hour can pass without my noticing. Cramming all I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the information on one feeders for a quick snatch of the most complex some food and intriguing peoples of all time is who settles in for a big ask; making it assessable to children is even biggergood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg It would have attempted this in been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Ancient EgyptiansSecret Life of Birds''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Roman EmpireInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=You may not think it from my writing, but I actually 'Germs' seems to have become a degree in historycatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Some of this was on In the Roman Empirefirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, but even I struggle OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to remember what happened when during the time periodworld of germs. The Republic We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and Empire spanned hundreds of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near how the rise of Julius Caesarthinking has developed over time. Modern youths would not think to shove the invention The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the microchip in trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with the Napoleonic Warsbacteria, so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empirefungi, but also puts it all in a context protists and viruses – and timeline they can understandhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1800464495|title=One Hundred Words100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: A first handwriting bookSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Little Mouse ''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 learning to writea 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. ActuallyBut do we think the same way about maths, you beyond counting? I don't just learn to writethink we do, you have to learn to hold and in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use a pencil maths in daily life without realising and to control it so follows that the point goes where you want it togiving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} Pencils {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super- and particularly crayons - have Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a mind of their own, you know! strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. So, we start Lots of with the tripod grip our routines have been completely dismantled and for some tips teenagers this will have brought about what sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to do if you find that difficultbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Then we're straight into the actionMost people, starting with drawing a straight line from side children to side and adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to see whatmake it worse. And there's required we have also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a footballer kicking a ball in the direction we're going virtue and sleep made to goseem like laziness. There are fifteen examples where you trace the lineBeing up early, just so you get working late has been praised and the hang of it and then you get ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to have a go put on your ownCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll1849767343|title=Nature's Day: Out and AboutCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=I love books which encourage children The title and format of this book might lead you to interact with nature think that it's either about responsibility - as opposed to or it's a computer screenbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. I like It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about naturemaths. A good teacher will inspire children, but ''NatureIt's Day: Out about why maths is so wonderful and About'' provides support and encouragement how you meet it in equal measures and might just be what a child needseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Danielle Kroll Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and Nghiem Tathe 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 celebration 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=Pattern PlayHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|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: CutHow to Earn It, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsSave It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Here's What a neat idea relief! A book about money, for you. Provide pages children, with animal prints on one side - only by animal printsclear explanations of what it is, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animalswhy it matters, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather how to acquire more inof it (nope -your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that robbing banks is out) and what you can cut and fold the paper and do with it becomes a 3D model when you've managed to get hold of an animalit. Provide Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right placeextent. All you need You might want to add to the mix is go into business, be a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingclever shopper, a little imagination saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you have hours really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of funusing to do good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford178112938X|title=Where's WallySurvival in Space: The Colouring BookApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=ChildrenDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's Non-Fictionfifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Are you looking ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for something relaxingtweens, easy setting out to complete show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour for young adults too, but there is a needful space in a pleasing design? Do you want an increasingly technological world accessible to indulge your imagination younger and use the colours which tempt you at the moment, content that it will not affect the finished creation? Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops as it pleases you? Are you aiming younger children for material for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye?tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}

Sorry: you've got the wrong book.{{Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1609809173|authortitle=Deborah PattersonEiffel's Tower for Young People|titleauthor=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresJill Jonnes

|summary=If you happen to have two childrenBrash and elegant, born five years apartsophisticated, you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – controversial and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher training. Weather permittingvibrant, thatthe 1889 World's well over 1Fair in Paris encompassed the best,400 days where the impetus is worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to take them somewherestun the senses. And towering above it all, or spend money. So what better the most popular and cheaper place the most hated monument to take them than their own imagination? And if you can't quite unlock French accomplishment and daring – the door that leads there, we can certainly suggest this bookEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1848576536|title=50 Things You Should Know AboutHumanatomy: Wild WeatherHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Oh''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, this takes me back. Out of all the things we learn at school and profess go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to never want to need as an adultdo and honestly, the water cycle is one that I had forgotten don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about, until now. It forms the basis of a lot of our weather, after all – human body to curious children- from the way landmasses and seas warm skeletal system to the air above them differentlymuscular system via circulation, thus causing motion in the shape of winds respiration and altering atmospheric pressuredigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we call weatherare. And from the gentlest high pressure, that someone somewhere will always deem too hot, to the most furious electrical storm, weather is certainly something a lot of people like to talk about. Is this book the ideal place to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Langford_Emily|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - s no limit to spend how far you can go, but then Emily moved a lot more time outsidestep further and began counting in twos. I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D She knew all about odd and the knowledge of what nature can offer themeven numbers. I'd like Then she began counting in threes: half of the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and list were even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for freenumbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which - if we donoccurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''t care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the authors odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideaseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus

|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''An activity book, but not as you know itglance'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots The Little Book of stickers and theythe Dawn Chorus''re but the sort pull of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you 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 two's peace in so reading all about the school holidaysbirds and listening to their song. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Then - just because I could - I went back and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this did it all again and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - was just as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsgood the second time around. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy CaravantesPankhurst_Women|title=Marooned in the ArcticFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Misogynists are manmadeA lot of history is about men. And if anyone was in a position to hate men Kings and generals and inventors and the lot they put on their shoulderspoliticians. Sometimes, it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke of an abusive man she had a son byfeels almost as though there were no women in history at all, but it was her time with four other men that made for one of the last century's more remarkable storieslet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. An Inuit nativeOf course, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other 'Eskimothis isn' t true and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it Britishare plenty of women who, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadianthroughout history, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertisehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, especially waterproof fur clothingor created something never seen before. And that was it – none of her kin joined herSo here, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, in one are the stories of some of the world's most remote and inhospitable placesthem. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one 'Women in Sport'' is going coming to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it), add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in the detailsFebruary 2018. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin It celebrates a century and a description half of the bird in words which a child can understand but which wondevelopment of women't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details s sport by looking at fifty of where the bird is foundits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, what it eatsfencing, where it nestsriding, how many eggs it laysskating, how the male and female adults differ and their sizemuch more. Then you need Think of a 'Did you know?' fact sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know eitherbook somewhere. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's Each entry is a double-page spread with a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in brief biography and a momentstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge BlochRooney_Dino|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I can't drawwas 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've d never been able to draw. A blank sheet heard of paper and a pencil frightens me. I thought I was probably a little bit old before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to change my ways but then I discovered ''3, 2with background noises, 1... Drawroars and squawks to accompany them!'' and there might have been The book creates a movement within the tectonic plates of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about blank pages: dinosaurs it's about imagination and inspirationvery visual, with placing the first encouraged dinosaurs in their habitats and the second delivered by the barrow loadgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno DawsonMason_poo|title=Mind Your HeadThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles

|summary=One of the most common subjects at primary schoolI know, getting on for three generations since it happenedI know, is of course World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if itsometimes you really don's taught correctly. One of the ways t want to present it is this book, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new to me – but succeeds in being remarkably competent, complete and really quite readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft|title=Amazing Animal Journeys|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenencourage your children's Non-Fiction|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year to take advantage of the weather or the availability of foodpoo jokes, 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 - that's birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. This this book is known as migration - brilliant! I sat and read it's a real pleasure to see it used other than in by myself when the context of sensationalist newspaper headlines. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction kids had gone to the subject school and found it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroft. (He's the man who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter booksfascinating!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christina Wilsdon|title=Ultimate Reptileopedia|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Have you ever wanted to know more about reptiles? Scratch that. Have you ever wanted to seemingly know everything that Who knew there ever was to so much I didn't know about reptilespoo? If so, you don't just need a normal encyclopaedia that will have a page or two on the subject, but a Reptileopedia that has more information and images of reptiles in it than you could shake a snake at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426321031</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meredith Hooper and Chris Coady|title= The Drop in My Drink|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= This brilliant book tells the story of where water comes from in a wonderfully captivating way. In full colour picture book style, it does far more than explain scientific facts about our planet, the way life has evolved manages to be both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and where our water comes fromeducational. It takes the reader on an inspiring, exciting and eye-opening journey through millions of years – the same journey one little drop of water in one child' cup may have taken!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807143</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Thurlby|title= L is for London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I spend Using a lot mixture 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 facts and long days tend not to include time for the gym. Butfigures, as you walk from Euston to Waterloo or Elephant photographs and Castlefunny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but also get to see knowing a lot about different types of a wonderful city. I've never lived therepoo, why poos smell, 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 placewhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491877X</amazonuk>