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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerB0GFQ81YQK|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Damn those beesBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. They're not Everything was quiet until the earth and the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming ratessky began to tal to each other. First, and the othersearth created bodies. And then, like butterflies the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and moths, are actually runners-up they belonged to Mr Bumble both earth and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantssky. Plus And so people lived between sky and soil and they're more visually attractiveplanted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. But even though this book has two nudges When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and a thanks given their life returned to the Butterfly Conservation body, sky. And that's certainly not is why the more notable feature of these pagesearth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. What stands out And that is the superlative contentwhy people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic KidsB0GHPMNF6P|title= Angry Birds PlaygroundHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical themeBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Rovio-Everything was quiet until the team responsible for earth and the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids sky began to tal to create a stunning set of books that perfectly blend each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the cheeky humour from sky breathed life into them. These were the game with informative text first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and breathtaking real-world photographyremembered, especially how they came to be. The series will appeal When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to young fans of the game earth and anyone who has an interest in their life returned to the sky. And that is why the wonders of earth and the natural worldsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe Archer and Caroline CraigStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Kew Gardens Children's CookbookHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Plant, Cook, EatFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
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|summary=I grew up in the immediate post war period. Growing your own vegetables had been ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a necessity in children’s nonfiction book drawn from the war and it was still a habit for those who had a bit oral traditions of gardenMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, so Tanzania.'' The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was a real pleasure for me, as well as Maasai are a touch of nostalgia. The principle is very simple: show children how to grow their own vegetables cattle-herding people and then this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to transform them into delicious foodbe so. It sounds simple, Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't it? Welltell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, it might come as a surprisehave with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, but it is!does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker1839948493|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presented, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at the natural world, in both urban and rural locations. We start off in the city, looking at pigeons, the American racoon, the Australian possum and the South American Marmoset. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages, including what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits World of the monkeys. We were off to a good start.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Aleksandra Mizielinski, Daniel Mizielinski Carlie Sorosiak and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|title=Under Earth, Under WaterLuisa Uribe
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|summary=One of In the major remits interests of childrenfull disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn's non-fiction books is to get them to look around them t trust and gain a better understanding I've loved most of what they're seeingthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. After a volume such as thisSo, any book about dogs, the obvious response is I'm going to see that as an incredibly narrow focussit down and devour. For this book will take the reader Then I'm going to go back and show them exactly what they canread it properly. And so it was with 't see – from microscopic things living in soil even seasoned Scrabble players haven't heard A World ofDogs'', right down with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to the fish swimming their way towards the Mariana Trench, the deepest section of sea on earthmy four-legged friends. Make no bones about it, this book is entirely focused on what is beneath our feet and sea levels, and – no pie in Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the sky response this – it is accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a winnerlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Haslam and Steve Parker1529507987|title= A Journey Through the WeatherThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= WeI love 're British. We LOVE to talk about the weather. But beyond the usual platitudes of 'The Repair Shop'Bit cold out isn't it. It'' or ''What s my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a beautiful hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, how 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 do you actually time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know about the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining whatit is they's happening up in the skyre doing. But how did they start? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493450X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis024162343X|title=The Great Fire of London: 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of 1666Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|summary=While I was the average primary bad company other people got into at school child may not quite be able to fathom . I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the importance and actual length existence of 350 yearsa 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it is no reason not to put a book out looking back that distance was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of time WWII, I didn't so much want to major historical events. But it has learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be a good book called 'the colonies' as want to justify dispute what right the mental time travel that entailsarmy had to be there in the first place. And you have to hit on a remarkable subjectLooking back, something I still believe I was right - but I regret that will open I lacked the young eyes maturity to approach 'the danger, tragedy and drama of our historyproblem' politely. Something like the Great Fire of London, as seen in this large hardback, which when it comes down to it, and for many reasons, is a very good book indeedI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298200</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Young Rewired StateJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Get Coding!: Learn HTMLFritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, CSS & JavaScript & build 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 websitevocational 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. But this 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 Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These 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, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, app & gameRenee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Learning ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to code, even heading into my seventh decade, changed my life Stretch Your Cranium and for todayTickle Your Humerus's children it's important because it opens so many doorswhich probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It might look complicatedstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', but all tells you how to pronounce it required is concentration and (''raz- eventually muh- imagination. I had TAZ''), gives you a reasonable mastery of definition and then includes the skills of basic HTML word in three days with the benefit of a personal tutor, but where to go if sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? think I''Get Codingve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!'' seems like the perfect answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Mills0711266204|title=Top Of The League Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Football is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger have recently discovered a great pleasure: I kind sit and watch the vast numbers of believed thisbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. I would spend An hour can pass without my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker albumnoticing. There was even I've established which species feed from the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won ground, which pop to the titlefeeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. As I It would have grown olderbeen wonderful if, my cynicism has grown too. Leicester may be championsas a child, but the day I feel that 'd had access to a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everyman, will be a sad one. Perhaps the love of football still burns bright in the youth of today? book such as ''Top Of the LeagueThe Secret Life of Birds'' certainly hopes so as . So – what is it is full of facts and figures all about the ball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Miles0192779230|title=Ultimate Mapping Guide Very Short Introductions for KidsCurious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I've always been fascinated by maps: diverse features can be converted into symbols, drawn on Germs' seems to have become a piece of paper and then passed catch-all word to someone else cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to interpret. Making or reading maps are skills which stay with make you throughout life and learning 'how to' is relatively simple and great funill. Author Justin Miles had a car accident In the first book in 1999 and brain injuries meant that he had what looks to learn to walk be a very promising new series, OUP and talk from scratch. Whilst he was doing this he decided to become Isabel Thomas have provided a full time explorer clear and accessible introduction to support charities which inspire children to learnthe world of germs. He raises funds by taking on daring challenges, which have included climbing mountains, exploring the Arctic, crossing deserts We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and cutting his way through how the junglethinking has developed over time. If The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a man knows about mapsscientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, then it's Justin Milesprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493464X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1800464495|title=The Ancient Egyptians100 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=34.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There was more ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Ancient Egyptians than keeping the entrails 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 of their dead 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 jarsolid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, but 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 is giving our children a pretty cool fact anywaysimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} As {{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 civilisation they knocked around strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for centuries until Cleopatra had a nasty incident with an Aspsome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Cramming all Most people, from children to adults will have the information on one odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the most complex and intriguing peoples fact that for far too long, lack of all time is sleep has been lauded as a big ask; making it assessable virtue and sleep made to children is even biggerseem like laziness. Imogen Greenberg Being up early, working late has been praised and Isabel Greenberg have attempted this in ''The Ancient Egyptians''the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808255</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1849767343|title=The Roman EmpireCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
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|summary=You may not The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it from my writing, but I actually have 's a degree in history. Some of this was basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the Roman Empire, but even I struggle to remember what happened when during the time periodnumbers journey. The Republic and Empire spanned hundreds It isn't: it's a hymn of years, so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesarpraise to maths. Modern youths would not think to shove the invention of the microchip in with the Napoleonic Wars, It's about why maths is so why would wonderful and how you do this with Rome? Kids need a simple book that tells them about the Roman Empire, but also puts meet it all in a context and timeline they can understandeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1849767009|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Little Mouse is learning This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to write. Actually, you donthe choir': the only people who't just learn to write, you have to learn to hold and use a pencil and to control ll buy it so are the people who know that nudity is OK and the point goes where you want ones who ''know'' that it to. Pencils 's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot- and particularly crayons - have a mind of their own, you know! So, we start of with bothered person in the tripod grip and some tips about what supermarket who is coughing fit to do if you find that difficultbust. Then we're straight But... Rosie Haines makes it into the action, starting with drawing something so much more than a straight line from side to side and to see whatbook about not wearing clothes. It's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in the direction wecelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're going to gofine. There are fifteen examples where you trace the lineIn fact, just so you get the hang of it and then you get to have a go on your ownthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll1776572858|title=Nature's Day: Out How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and AboutDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a computer screenbook about it. A couple of days later I like to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting was handed a bit dirtypamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, being independent in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and getting excited I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about nature''. A good teacher will inspire childrenI ''knew'' more, but was little ''Naturewiser's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what a child needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1526362759|title=Pattern PlayDosh: CutHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsGive It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford178112938X|title=Where's WallySurvival in Space: The Colouring BookApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|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}}
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1848576536|title=50 Things You Should Know AboutHumanatomy: Wild WeatherHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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>
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{{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
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus
|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy CaravantesPankhurst_Women|title=Marooned in the ArcticFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|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>
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{{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
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Serge BlochRooney_Dino|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I can't draw. I've never been able to draw. A blank sheet of paper and was a pencil frightens mechild. I thought I was probably a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered ''3This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, 2through various different ages of dinosaurs, 1... Draw!'' and there might have been we meet a movement within the tectonic plates variety of my brain. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: it's about imagination and inspirationcreatures, with the first encouraged and the second delivered by the barrow load. some of whom are very familiar but some I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paperd never heard of before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Juno Dawson|title=Mind Your Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessEach scene peels open, the treatments availablelayer by layer, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is showing you what the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt various dinosaurs are getting up to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida Kahlo|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake''background noises, but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being different. Then one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured roars and even when she was over the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled the time by drawing pictures, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures squawks to accompany them! The book creates a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the picturesdinosaur experience, ''and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Fridarather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's painting. She exhibitedvery visual, eventually placing the dinosaurs in New York, to great acclaimtheir habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>
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