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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Make a MobileHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Lydia CrookStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Make a Mobile'' is a delightful crafting book crammed full of projects for parents Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and children they belonged to shareboth earth and sky. The book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and are surprisingly easy remembered, especially how they came to makebe. The perforated pages allow When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the components of each mobile earth and their life returned to be simply pushed out from the page without sky. And that is why the earth and the need sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for nimble scissor skills, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Space in 30 SecondsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Clive Gifford and Dr Mike GoldsmithStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=Back when I Before people came and joined the animals, there was a lad, only the sky and reading books on space science from my school library, they were nothing like thisthe earth. There Everything was little that was as colourfulquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, no recap for every pagethe earth created bodies. And then, no homework suggestionsthe sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and certainly there was nothing as up-died, their bodies returned to-date as exoplanets or the latest dimensions of earth and their life returned to the International Space Stationsky. Many of And that is why the changes earth and the sky are valuableboth revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and make this volume quite a successcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Myths in 30 SecondsStephanie Zabriskie|authortitle=Anita GaneriHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45

|summary=Back when I was ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a lad, and reading books on mythology from my school library, they were nothing like this. There was no full-colour, no recaps, no homework suggestions, and certainly there was not the global PC-flavoured reach that broadened things out children’s nonfiction book drawn from Greek, Roman and the occasional bit oral traditions of Norse mythMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. You'll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Paper Play|author=Lydia Crook|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Paper Play is The Maasai are a virtual time machine, taking us back cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to an era before be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the PCintimate and symbiotic connection its people, tablet and games consoleespecially its women, when children had the ability to amuse themselves for hours have with a few sheets of paper, some scissors their cows and some gluefor the natural world. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation, arming creative minds The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with a seemingly endless supply of crafting ideastheir cows, including paper dress-up dolls, flying contraptions and finger puppetsdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1839948493|title=Craft it Up Around the A Worldof Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I's alway m a good idea to have plans about activities which will involve and interest childrensucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'Craft it Up Around the World'' wet trust and I've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertainedloved most of them. As I wish I felt the title suggests wesame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I're m going on a world tour to sit down and you can pick the projects devour. Then I'm going to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basisgo back and read it properly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Read On - Unsolved Mysteries|author=Keith West|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= And so it was with ''Collins Read OnA World of Dogs'' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line of books. Instead, these are what is known as hiwith ninety-lo books. Book developed six pages devoted entirely to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade levelmy four-legged friends. I would estimate Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the reading level accidental owner of this book to be roughly age eight, but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like the famous Barrington Stoke range, this does have several features to make this book more appropriate to children with dyslexia than the average childrenan American Dingo - she's book. With the exception of learned quite a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink with a large standard font. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs and chapters giving the reader plenty of breaks. The paper is thick enough that print and pictures from the other side will not show through. This combined with the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidencelot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal Dixon1529507987|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''The book starts with Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a simple question. How would we copehard day, how would dinosaurs cope if there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they had not become extinct and were around today? They're put worth. You see, the value is in context, going back what these possessions are worth to the beginnings of Planet Earth four people who own them and a half billion years ago and working forward the memories they hold. No expense appears to show how life evolved be spared and asking if the skills experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the dinosaurs developed would allow them to survive todaydesired result. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers Regular viewers know the experts and flying reptiles - are then looked they're all brilliant at in some detailexplaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr024162343X|title=Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a great many 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of Sharky and GeorgeWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's ideas from our own childhood gamessuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the days when childrencolonies's games usually did take as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place outdoors. Most of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book) Looking back, cops and robbers, boxes with a pen and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed a stone or built a dam in childhood. So you might ask I still believe I was right - why do need a book but I regret that I lacked the maturity to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact is, most of these games are rapidly being forgottenapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide and seek games'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Davide Cali Jeremy Dronfield and Gabrriella GiandelliDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Monsters Fritz and LegendsKurt

|summary=My sons love stories We start with the pair of unsolved mysteriesbrothers Fritz and Kurt, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boystheir muckers, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side of doing things. This book is for children who any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to know how do – kicking things around the legends were bornempty market place, if any of helping the creatures could be realneighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and what at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the science behind lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the story isSabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. I do feel But this book is better suited the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to older children seeking Hitler's will, and instead of having a more rational explanation national vote to keep the old storiesNazis out, but my youngest invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did enjoy it as wellall the round-ups of Jews. It might be useful for a child These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a slight fear his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of monsters an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to get a more realistic view of themeach other, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things packed off on the same train to be afraid Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk Science1913750353|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=''Do Try This At Home Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub- Cook title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It!!starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' is a fun, very boy friendly tells you how to pronounce it ( but not just for boys''raz-muh-TAZ'') cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts gives you a definition and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book then includes science facts and the word in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruit, or a water chestnut isn't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell sentence so that you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softerknow how it should be used. Children will learn what You also get an emulsion is, why onions make us cry, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg engaging and how to make frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkaline.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy0711266204|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and SupertrainsVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and Supertrains is divided into eight sectionswatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. The first four sections are questions on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, the human brain, natural disasters and finally transportAn hour can pass without my noticing. The following four sections are much longer and provide not only I've established which species feed from the answers ground, which pop to the previous sections' questions, but feeders for a detailed, scientific explanation in clear easy to understand language that even my four year old can usually follow. These answers are very well written and quite interesting to both quick snatch of my children, some food and even as an adult who settles in for a good munch but I wish I found this both educational and entertainingwas more knowledgeable. I It would have to admitbeen wonderful if, as a child, I learned 'd had access to a few things from this book such as well, and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge ''The Secret Life of the human brain before bringing this out againBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk> So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Wareham0192779230|title=Rescuing GusVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Melissa Wareham was 'Germs'convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs seems to have been born become a catch-all word to parents who, well, wouldn't have them in cover anything unpleasant which has the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatepotential to make you ill. Melissa wouldn't In the first book in what looks to be able to a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a dog until she had a home clear and accessible introduction to the world of her own but in the meantime she got a job germs. We get an informed look at Battersea Dogs' Home how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and it was there that she met Gushow the thinking has developed over time. He wasnThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't in speak like a scientist' which explains some of the first flush of youth trickiest concepts and his breath was a weapon of mass destructionyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, but he protists and Melissa bonded viruses – and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>

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.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin Brown1406395404|title=Deadly Days in History (Horrible Histories)The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - 2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with all the nasty bits left inthat statement. This is not Lots of our routines have been completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children's book with details which are too graphic dismantled and for children, but some teenagers this is without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome of all of the Horrible Histories books we will have readbrought about sleep problems. While Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books 've got loads to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year oldbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, I do think this one from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is best only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for the older childrenfar too long, would recommend lack of sleep has been lauded as a minimum age of 7virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and this only if the child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further informationput on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Moran1849767343|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes The title and imagines what format of this book might lead you to think that it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviour, ability, 's either about responsibility - or physical featureit's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. For instance, if we had teeth like a shark, we wouldn It isn't have : it's a hymn of praise to worry maths. It's about eating too many sweets, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard objectwhy maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. Whenever a tooth fell out, a new }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one would take its place. If we had of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the comparative strength of a Hercules beetle, we could lift a double decker bus, people who know that nudity is OK and if we could jump the equivalent of a froghopper insect, weones who ''know'' that it'd be able s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to leap over sky scrapers with easebust. But... Not all of the animal traits would be Rosie Haines makes it into something so much fun thoughmore 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. We wouldn In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It't want our parents to eat us if we s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were not as strong as our siblings like the vole, made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and while eyes on our hands like told me that she'd get me a starfish might have book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a few advantagespamphlet (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 would wouldn't be very awkward discussed any further as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Snow1526362759|title=Dosh: How Dinosaurs Really Workto Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=It’s sometimes difficult What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to find books which appeal acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to reluctant readers, particularly boysget hold of it. Three cheers, then, Your reasons for Alan Snow who has produced a really smashing book about those ever-popular dinosaurswanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. Here is You might want to go into business, be a book which will appeal not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phaseclever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and also there might be something you really, ''really'' want to more struggling readers, a little later onbuy. This is exactly There's also the sort possibility of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order using to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals do good in front of their matesthe world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson178112938X|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War IISurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Tony RobinsonIt's Weird World fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of Wonders is an informative, easy to read book for children covering WW2. I would describe it as something that journey remains one of a cross between a school text book and Terry Deary's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought of any greatest survival stories of his books being crossed with a text bookall time. This isn ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission't quite facts, facts and nothing but the facts, it does break things up with humour, but I would describe this as book meant to teach history, unlike Deary's books which I would describe as books which make reading fun, and just happen to inform children on history as wellis a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1609809173|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the pages of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] book. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest of the bookbest, pointing out some of the most gruesome moments in history. After some classic gallows humour worst and a brief mention of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamiabeautiful from many countries and cultures. The book includes the AssyriansFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, Sumeriansput on art shows, Persiansdance performances, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish food festivals and Americansconcerts to stun the senses. It also covers several different periods of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20'sAnd towering above it all, the first most popular and second world wars, the most hated monument to French accomplishment and a quick section on Ruthless Rulersdaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>

That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyLangford_Emily|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=54

|summary=IEmily found words ''useful''ve always thought Terry Deary , but counting was years ahead of his timewhat she loved best. He was writing books that boys really wanted Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the efforts to close the ever widening gender gap in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to readlist were even numbers, but the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 years. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating threes which she called ''20 Horrible Yearsthreeven'' has addressed . (Actually, this issue and makes confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the books not only odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the type of books that boys want to readeven numbers, but also the type of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readit all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>)

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyBuckingham_Dawn|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''at 'Facts, facts and nothing but 'The Little Book of the factsDawn Chorus'' - if this is your idea but the pull of the sounds of a history book - stop right here. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in a well laid dozen different birds singing their hearts out easy was far too much to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write the Horrible History as history books, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain resist on a collection of amusing stories cold and jokes, rather than a collection of dry factswet February morning. Deary never intended his books I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to be used to teach history their song. Then - just because I could - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to read, books that are both engaging I went back and entertaining, did it all again and whether he intended it was just as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want to learn about history. Children pick up Deary's books because he speaks directly to them, not in good the language of authority and the adult world, but in a as co-conspiratorsecond time around. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant to them So, they actually what do learn this as well. What's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for a history quiz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>you get?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyPankhurst_Women|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=The Horrible Histories series A lot of history is a favourite with both schools about men. Kings and generals and inventors and Home Educatorspoliticians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, but Terry Deary never intended his books let alone ones young girls might like to be used in educationread about or regard as role models. He originally set out to write a joke bookOf course, based on a historical subject, but freed from the constraints of school - he discovered what so many of us have also found - history really is fun. Instead of a joke book with a bit this isn't true and there are plenty of historywomen who, Deary ended up with a throughout history book - with quite a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertainhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just thator created something never seen before. So here, it entertains both children and adults. It is difficult to read any of Deary's books without learning somethingin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, but learning is incidental - are the fun comes firststories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar BaldurssonIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he ''Women in Sport'' is entranced coming to hear Ravel’s Bolerous just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments It celebrates a century and there’s a lot half of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stage, tired out development of women's sport by the excitement looking at fifty of his adventuresits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. He wakes to Think of a loud booming noise as the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, sport and he finds that the orchestra a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in concertthis book somewhere. He scuttles down into Each entry is a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring homedouble-grown encorepage spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghRooney_Dino|title=The Truth About LoveDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=We are never too far from springtime, whenLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of coursedinosaurs, we meet a ''young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts variety of love''. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young people's fancies turn to trivia about love customscreatures, predictions some of who theywhom are very familiar but some I'll marry and d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the whole symbolism around lovevarious dinosaurs are getting up to, Valentines with background noises, roars and marriage mean. squawks to accompany them! The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited for creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell nicedinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss|title=Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types|rating=4.5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I suppose you could describe any book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably clever, rhyming introduction, we enter the world of prehistory with A, Rhymes and exit with Z, having met 27 (yes, there's a surprise guest entrant) animals along the way. And the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>}}Verse Reviews]]