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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=100 How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Masayuki SebeStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If I told you this Before people came and joined the animals, there was a book in which every double page spread features exactly 100 peopleonly 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 there’s no real story they belonged to go with itboth earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, you might especially how they came to be underwhelmed. You might wonder what When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the point would beearth and the sky are both revered. But I Only together can tell you in one word: funthey create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877579866</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Top 10 For Boys 2014How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Paul TerryStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=OKBefore people came and joined the animals, I'll admit – sometimes there comes a time when it would appear terribly easy was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to post a review of a bookeach other. First, when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description of it hardly seems necessarythe earth created bodies. And you can judge then, the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes sky breathed life into them. These were the ''Top Ten of Everything'' format developed by the late Russell Ash, first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and makes it funkier, smaller, more brashly colourful, learned and apparentlyremembered, suitable for boysespecially how they came to be. There are unofficial, opinionated listsWhen they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and bits where kids can scribble their own content life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and ratingsthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. But despite how easy it And that is why people must pay attention to get a handle on the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, and just as I shouldcare for, even no longer being a boy I learned a lotboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk>

The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Make a Mobile: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangA World of Dogs|author=Lydia CrookCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I'Make a Mobileve never met one I didn't trust and I' is a delightful crafting book crammed full ve loved most of projects for parents and children to sharethem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. The So, any book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully about dogs, I'm going to sit down and are surprisingly easy devour. Then I'm going to makego back and read it properly. The perforated And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages allow devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the components accidental owner of each mobile to be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillsan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Space in 30 SecondsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Clive Gifford Walker Books and Dr Mike GoldsmithSonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Back I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I was want to be cheered up. After a ladhard 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 reading books on space science from my school library, the memories they were nothing like thishold. There was little that was No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as colourful, no recap for every page, no homework suggestions, much time and certainly there was nothing effort as up-is required to-date as exoplanets or the latest dimensions of achieve the International Space Stationdesired result. Many of Regular viewers know the changes are valuable, experts and make this volume quite a successthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk> But how did they start?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Myths in 30 SecondsStolen History|author=Anita GaneriSathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=Back when 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 lad, and reading books on mythology from my school library, they were nothing like this'god'. There Where was no full-colourthe proof? In history lessons, no recapsit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, no homework suggestionsI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, and certainly but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was not the global PCright -flavoured reach but I regret that broadened things out from Greek, Roman and I lacked the maturity to approach 'the occasional bit of Norse mythproblem' politely. YouI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paper PlayJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Lydia CrookFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=Paper Play is a virtual time machineWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, taking us back doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to an era before do – kicking things around the PCempty market place, tablet and games consolehelping the neighbours, being dutiful when children had it comes to the ability synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to amuse themselves make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for hours with using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a few sheets light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of paperhaving a national vote to keep the Nazis out, some scissors and some glueinvite them in with open arms. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, arming creative minds as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a seemingly endless supply his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of crafting ideasan evacuation to Britain or the US, including paper dress-up dollswhile Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, flying contraptions packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and finger puppetsthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1913750353|title=Craft it Up Around Britannica's Word of the WorldDay|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather it''Britannica's alway Word of the Day'' has a good idea sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to have plans Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about activities which will involve and interest childrenthis brilliant book. In It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''Craft , tells you how to pronounce it Up Around the World('' weraz-muh-TAZ've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertained. As the title suggests we're going on ), gives you a world tour definition and you can pick then includes the projects to suit other activities word in a sentence so that you have planned, as know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Keith WestMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=The book starts with I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a simple questiondaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. How would we cope, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct and were around today? They I're put in contextve established which species feed from the ground, going back which pop to the beginnings feeders for a quick snatch of Planet Earth four some food and who settles in for a half billion years ago and working forward to show how life evolved and asking good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them , as a child, I'd had access to survive today. a book such as ''The four groups Secret Life of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked at in some detailBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk> So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith Kerr0192779230|title=Judith Kerr's CreaturesVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: A Celebration The Invisible World of the Life and Work of Judith KerrGerms|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In children's literature there are some authors whom Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you know are not just reliable, but always impressiveill. One In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]germs. For decades she's been delighting our children (We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and grandchildren) how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but it still came as something of Thomas gives a surprise to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013. To celebrate this, Harper Collins have published ''Creaturesregular box headed 'speak like a scientist' in which Judith tells not just her own story but that explains some of the trickiest concepts and you''creatures'' - the characters in her books and her family - who have contributed to her inspirational life. It isll soon be familiar with bacteria, thoughfungi, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection of paintings, drawings protists and viruses – and memorabiliahow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharky and George1800464495|title=Don't You Dare100 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

|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise a great many of Sharky and George's ideas from our own childhood games, 'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the days when children's games usually did take place outdoors. Most womb, being aware of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book)quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, cops and robbers, boxes with a pen comprehending addition and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed a stone or built a dam in childhoodsubtraction at nine months old. So '' Did you might ask - why do need a book to teach us games we already know how to playthis? The sad fact is, most of these games are rapidly being forgotten. I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide and seek games.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>}}didn't! How about:

{{newreview|author=Davide Cali and Gabrriella Giandelli|title=Monsters and Legends|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=My sons love stories of unsolved mysteries, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side of things. This book is for children who want ''Maths ability on entry to know how the legends were born, if any of the creatures could be real, and what the science behind the story is. I do feel this book school is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation to the old stories, but my youngest did enjoy it as well. It might be useful for a child with a slight fear of monsters to get a more realistic view strong predictor of themlater achievement, but I would use caution with a child who is truly terrified of monsters as it might just give them more things to be afraid double that ofliteracy skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263036</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=Punk Science1406395404|title=Do Try This at HomeThe Awesome Power of Sleep: Cook It!!How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant (''Do Try This At Home who needs sleep? - Cook It!!I'' is a fun, very boy friendly ( but not just for boysve got loads to be doing) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts and a few science experiments with foodothers will worry unnecessarily. Not every recipe in this book includes science facts and in some Most people, from children to adults will have the science bit odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is limited only likely to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like make it worse. And there's also the fact a tomato is a fruitthat for far too long, or lack of sleep has been lauded as a water chestnut isn't really a nutvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. But other recipes have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion isBeing up early, why onions make us cry, how yeast works, how working late has been praised and the ability to make a bouncing rubber-like egg and how survive on little sleep has almost become something to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalineput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy1849767343|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains and SupertrainsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains The title and Supertrains is divided into eight sections. The first four sections are questions format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, the human brain, numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths. natural disasters It's about why maths is so wonderful and finally transporthow you meet it in everyday life. The following four sections }}{{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 of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are much longer the people who know that nudity is OK and provide not only the answers to ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the previous sections' questions, but a detailed, scientific explanation hot-and-bothered person in clear easy the supermarket who is coughing fit to understand language that even my four year old can usually followbust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. These answers are very well written It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and quite interesting to both of my childrenevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and even as an adult Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I found this both educational asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and entertainingtold me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I have to admitwas handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I learned a few things from this book was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as wellit ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge of the human brain before bringing this out againbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Wareham1526362759|title=Rescuing GusDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Melissa Wareham was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how could someone like her who ''loved'to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you' dogs have been born ve managed to parents who, well, wouldn't have them in the house? get hold of it. She wasnYour reasons for wanting money don't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificatematter: we all need it to some extent. Melissa wouldn't You might want to go into business, be able to have a dog until she had clever shopper, a home of her own but in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogssaver (you might even become an ''investor'' Home ) and it was there that she met Gusmight be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. He wasnThere't s also the possibility of using to do good in the first flush of youth and his breath was a weapon of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him homeworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin Brown178112938X|title=Deadly Days Survival in History Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Horrible Historiesillustrator)

|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase '9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is History a self- with all the nasty bits left in. This is not completely truehelp book for tweens, Scholastic is not going setting out to print a childrenshow them vital #lifeskills. Don's book with details which are too graphic for children, but this t groan! I know there is without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome of all market glut of the Horrible Histories such books for we have read. While I am happy enough reading most of the Horrible Histories books to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year oldgrown-ups and for young adults too, I do think this one but there is best for the older children, would recommend a minimum age of 7, and this only if the child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to broach this subject in a sensitive manner younger and provide further informationyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk>0228818826}}

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Moran1609809173|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=4.5

|summary='What If Humans Were More Like Animals' takes various unusual animal attributes Brash and imagines what it would be like if humans had an equivalent behaviourelegant, abilitysophisticated, or physical feature. For instancecontroversial and vibrant, if we had teeth like a sharkthe 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, we wouldn't have to worry about eating too the worst and the beautiful from many sweets, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard objectcountries and cultures. Whenever a tooth fell The French Republic laid outmodel villages from all their colonies, a new one would take its place. If we had the comparative strength of a Hercules beetleput on art shows, we could lift a double decker busdance performances, food festivals and if we could jump concerts to stun the equivalent of a froghopper insect, we'd be able to leap over sky scrapers with easesenses. Not And towering above it all of , the animal traits would be so much fun though. We wouldn't want our parents most popular and the most hated monument to eat us if we were not as strong as our siblings like French accomplishment and daring – the vole, and while eyes on our hands like a starfish might have a few advantages, it would be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreview|author=Alan Snow|title=How Dinosaurs Really Work|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary=It’s sometimes difficult what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to find books which appeal to reluctant readersdo and honestly, particularly boysI don't see how you could resist. Three cheers, then, for Alan Snow who has produced This informative book provides a really smashing book wonderful primer about those everthe human body to curious children-popular dinosaurs. Here is a book which will appeal not only from the skeletal system to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phasethe muscular system via circulation, respiration and also digestion, right up to more struggling readers, a little later on. This is exactly the sort of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their matesDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonLangford_Emily|title=Tony RobinsonEmily's Weird World of Wonders - World War IINumbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Tony RobinsonEmily found words ''useful''s Weird World of Wonders is an informative, easy to read book for children covering WW2but counting was what she loved best. I would describe it as something of a cross between a school text book Obviously, you can count anything and Terry Dearythere's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought of any of his books being crossed with no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a text bookstep further and began counting in twos. This isn't quite facts She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, facts and nothing but the facts, other half was odd and it does break things up with humourwas this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, but I would describe this confused me a little bit at first as book meant to teach history, unlike Dearythey's books which I would describe re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as books which make reading funthough they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, and just happen to inform children on history as but it all worked out wellwhen I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>)

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

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Horrible Histories: What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Beastly Best Bits begins with a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped Little Book of the pages Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] book. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest sounds of the book, pointing a dozen different birds singing their hearts out some of the most gruesome moments in history. After some classic gallows humour was far too much to resist on a cold and a brief mention of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamiarather wet February morning. The book includes I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the Assyrians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish birds and Americanslistening to their song. It also covers several different periods of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20's, Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the first and second world warstime around. So, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>what do you get?

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

|summary=I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead A lot of his timehistory is about men. He was writing books that boys really wanted to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the efforts , let alone ones young girls might like to close the ever widening gender gap in readingread about or regard as role models. Horrible Histories Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have always been brilliant to motivate boys to readachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, but the older copies do show their ageor created something never seen before. Progress has been made So here, in the way books this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 years. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible Years'' has addressed this issue and makes the books not only the type stories of books that boys want to read, but also the type some of book that younger children or those with reading difficulties can readthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=''Facts, facts and nothing but the factsWomen in Sport'' - if this is your idea of a history book - stop right here. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in a well laid out easy coming to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write us just before the Horrible History as history books, but rather as joke booksWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain It celebrates a collection of amusing stories century and jokes, rather than a collection half of dry facts. Deary never intended his books to be used to teach history - in fact the mere mention development of women's sport by looking at fifty of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to readits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, books that are both engaging and entertaining, much more. Think of a sport and whether he intended a pioneering woman succeeding at it as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long before is probably in this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want to learn about historysomewhere. Children pick up Deary's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language of authority and the adult world, but in Each entry is a as codouble-conspirator. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining page spread with a brief biography and relevant to them, they actually do learn this as well. What's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for a history quizstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyRooney_Dino|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=54

|summary=The Horrible Histories series is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a favourite child. This one comes with both schools and Home Educatorssounds! Taking us layer by layer, but Terry Deary never intended his books to be used in education. He originally set out to write a joke bookthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, based on we meet a historical subjectvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but freed from the constraints some I'd never heard of school - he discovered before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what so many of us have also found - history really is fun. Instead of a joke book the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with a bit of historybackground noises, Deary ended up with a history roars and squawks to accompany them! The book - with quite creates a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written to entertaindinosaur experience, and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does rather than just that, being facts about dinosaurs it entertains both children and adults. It is difficult to read any of Deary's books without learning somethingvery visual, but learning is incidental - placing the fun comes firstdinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra|rating=3.5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Children's Non-Fiction|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stage, tired out by the excitement of his adventures. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, Rhymes and he finds that the orchestra is in concert. He scuttles down into a packed auditorium. At the end of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>}}Verse Reviews]]