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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey KellyB0GFQ81YQK|title=A Day That Changed HistoryHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: The Assassination From the Oral Stories of John F KennedyMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=I have a vivid memory of hearing about Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the assassination of John F Kennedysky and the earth. He Everything was youngquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, charismatic and a hope for the future after 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 guard who seemed and died, their bodies returned to have been in power for ever - the earth and then he was gonetheir life returned to the sky. Books on JFK And that is why the earth and the sky are easy both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to find - you'll find our favourites [[Top Ten Books on President John F Kennedy|here]], but it's rather more difficult to find a book which puts Kennedy and what happened into contextcare for, so I was delighted to receive a copy of 'A Day That Changed History: The Assassination of John F Kennedy'both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445123576</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of the WorldMalagasy Elders|author=Richard HammondStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered whether or not Before people came and joined the Loch Ness Monster actually exists? What about animals, there was only the Abominable Snowman? Do you think about what really goes on inside sky and the Bermuda Triangle? Wellearth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, don't expect a definitive answer from Richard Hammond's ''Great Mysteries of the World''earth created bodies. You'll have to make up your own mind after being presented with And then, the argumentssky breathed life into them. You'll need These were the first humans and they belonged to marshal your brainpowerboth earth and sky. There are eighteen mysteries hereAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, arranged within four topics - Weird Watersespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, Alien Encounters, Creepy Creatures their bodies returned to the earth and Ancient Treasurestheir life returned to the sky. All And that is why the biggies earth and the sky are hereboth revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.''
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=Deadly Detectives: Top Tips to Track WildlifeA World of Dogs|author=Steve BackshallCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Steve Backshall is best known In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for his Deadly 60 seriesdogs. In nearly eight decades, which focuses on deadly predatorsI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. This book has plenty of predators from all around I wish I felt the worldsame about human beings. So, but it also includes many less dangerous creaturesany book about dogs, including a fair amount on animals in the UK. Tracking a fox may not sound as exciting as tracking a leopard, but it something many children may find a chance I'm going to do in the UK, sit down and Steve very helpfully shows the reader how devour. Then I'm going to differentiate between a fox print go back and that read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of a dog. The book has several other footprint illustrationsDogs'', teaching children subtle differences between may types of printswith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. It even had crab and bird prints to look for at Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the seaside. But this is accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about so much more than tracking and footprintsdogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006436</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Bones RockThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Peter L Larson Walker Books and Kristin DonnanSonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most children I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go through -to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a dinosaur phasehard day, but 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 always a few children worth to the people who are completely captivated by dinosaurs - own them and everything that goes with them. This is the most detailed palaeontology book for children I have ever foundmemories they hold. This book is written for older children, even teens who may wish No expense appears to seriously consider palaeontology be spared and the experts spend as a career choice. The book begins, not with dinosaurs, but with science. The book explains how science works. It presents science, not much time and effort as a set of facts, but of theories and ideas that are subject is required to changeachieve the desired result. Science becomes a living Regular viewers know the experts and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts to memorisethey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. Reading this book, I can almost forget But how much I hated science as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Stolen History|author=Jim EldridgeSathnam Sanghera|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing I was one the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Britaina 'god's greatest thinkers . Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the last century. He did pioneering work on computing British army's successes (and artificial intelligence. He was also a hero of World War IIoccasional failures, working but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to lethal effect organising U-boat attacksbe there in the first place. Turing Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the man who beat maturity to approach 'the Enigma machineproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How the Meteorite Got to the MuseumJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Jessie HartlandFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This is a cumulative tale We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in which one small event sets off 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 chain of other events which vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are repeated throughout turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the storySabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. If your child loves books like ''This But this is the House That Jack Built'time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, this may prove and instead of having a very useful addition national vote to you 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 librarywith his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, but this is a type of story telling which I have found some children really take while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially toeach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and others do notthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Discover Britannica's Word of the Savage WorldDay|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil SteelePatrick Kelly, Clint Twist Renee Kelly and Amanda AskewSue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range of subjects covered in ''Discover the Savage World'' is astonishing. The first three chapters are science related topics. The first section ''EarthBritannica's Power'' covers the birth Word of the universe, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters. Day'' Deadly Naturehas a sub-title: '' brings new meaning 366 Elevating Utterances to the phrase Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus''acting like animals'', as we see the darker side of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores and a real surprise which probably tells you all that you need to know about a very common and well known birdthis brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Wild ScienceRazzmatazz'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements, explosions, fireworks and exactly tells you how a bullet works, as well as the birth of a star. to pronounce it (''Tough Machinesraz-muh-TAZ'' dips into technology and innovation with an incredible variety of mechanical subjects with everything from massive transport vehicles and diggers, to robots, military vehicles, ice breaking ships), rockets, and flood control systems. The focus turns to geography with ''Harsh Lands'' show gives you a myriad of cultures definition and lifestyles then includes the word in inhospitable locationsa sentence so that you know how it should be used. Life is difficult in some regions due to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl You also get an engaging and land mines occur as wellfrequently amusing illustration too. Finally we close with history and I don't think I'Brutal Battles''. This covers ancient warfare with events such as the Battle of Marathon and the Siege of Masada right up to the Somme, the Battle Of Stalingrad with ve ever encountered a heavy focus on snipers and word which uses the Battle of Kursk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers The Secret Life of SpaceBirds|author=Dominic Walliman Moira Butterfield and Ben NewmanVivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first thing I noticed about this book was the illustrations. There is have recently discovered a strong nostalgic feel to this that makes me think of space race era film clips great pleasure: I sit and early Flash Gordon comics. Perhaps it was watch the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most vast numbers of the books in birds which visit our space collectiongarden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I was expecting this 've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to be the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a fun light readgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It was certainly funwould have been wonderful if, the whole family loved this book, but it was anything but as a light read. We spent three days reading this bookchild, researching topics online after reading about them, engaging the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etc... We I'd had access to rearrange our entire school week - and we still haven't finished - we have a number of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week such as well. This book is, without any doubt one ''The Secret Life of the most educational books we have ever read, all the while not only holding the childrenBirds''s interest, but completely captivating them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Book Of Space: All About Stars, Planets and Rockets!0192779230|authortitle=Clive Gifford|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's always a danger in putting a definitive article in the name of a children's non-fiction book title. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitive, with a lot Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of numbers and facts, yet a delivery that makes all of those and the theories and terminology it uses all palatable to the browser, and still manages to throw in the redundant unfunny cartoons at the side. In using an intelligent system of going through all the subjects under the broad subject of space, with none of the tables, box-outs and so on other editors choose, this proves one of the more sober, measured and successful books of its kind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014Germs|author=Robert Leroy RipleyIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I don't normally do annuals. IGerms'm afraid too many of seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the silly cartoon variety put me off potential to make you ill. In the genrefirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, but this is something completely different. It seems OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a shame clear and accessible introduction to even call it the world of germs. We get an annualinformed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the bizarretrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, unusualfungi, twisted protists and absolutely delightful facts that challenge you to 'Believe it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Horrid Henry's World Records1800464495|authortitle=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=My son chose this book because he does like Horrid Henry, and he especially loves books with facts. As a parent, I have tried 100 Ways in 100 Days to supply my children with a wide choice Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of reading material, but I have to admit, I have leaned more towards fiction than non fiction simply because I mistakenly assumed it would be more fun. Girls do tend to prefer fiction, so I based my choices upon my own childhood reading habits. But when my sons began to beg for ''books Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a bout real things'', I saw the error Love of my ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dork Diaries OMG: All About Me Diary!Maths|author=Rachel Renee RussellEmma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I feel a pattern forming. After three books in the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came a throw-away, [[Dork Diaries''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-understanding shapes in volume]] that offered a bit of a story to it but was not full-on plot and action like the routine books. After six real novels comes thiswomb, where for the first time the star being aware of the book really is not Nikki Maxwellquantities at seven hours old, but whoever buys it (or gets it bought for them). This is where the franchise branches away from fiction, to cover the purchaser or fan of the seriesassessing probability at six months old, and gives her the chance to spill about herself, her school life, comprehending addition and her BFFssubtraction at nine months old. I think this is where I'm supposed to go ''SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>}}
Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
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|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''Make 2020 has been a Mobilestrange 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 ('who needs sleep? - I' is a delightful crafting book crammed full of projects for parents ve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to shareadults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The book contains 12 unique designs And there's also the fact that fit together beautifully for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and are surprisingly easy sleep made to makeseem like laziness. The perforated pages allow Being up early, working late has been praised and the components of each mobile ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skillsput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767343|title=Space in 30 SecondsCount on Me|author=Clive Gifford and Dr Mike GoldsmithMiguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a lad, The title and reading books on space science from my school library, they were nothing like format of this. There was little book might lead you to think that was as colourful, no recap for every page, no homework suggestions, and certainly there was nothing as upit's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-to2-date as exoplanets or 3 book for those just starting out on the latest dimensions numbers journey. It isn't: it's a hymn of the International Space Stationpraise to maths. Many of the changes are valuable, It's about why maths is so wonderful and make this volume quite a successhow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Myths in 30 SecondsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Anita GaneriRosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Back when I was a lad, This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and reading books on mythology from my school library, the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they were nothing like thisavoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. There was no full-colour, no recaps, no homework suggestions, It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and certainly there was not the global PC-flavoured reach that broadened things out from Greek, Roman small and the occasional bit of Norse mythevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. YouThey'll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes arenre fine. In fact, they't completely for the betterre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Paper PlayHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Lydia CrookAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=Paper Play is It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a virtual time machine, taking us back to an era before pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the PC, tablet and games consolebasics, when children in clinical language which had the ability to amuse themselves for hours with a few sheets of paper, some scissors never been used in our house before) and some glueI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Simple papercraft skills were passed down from generation to generation I ''knew'' more, arming creative minds with a seemingly endless supply of crafting ideas, including paper dress-up dollsbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, flying contraptions and finger puppetstimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762449578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong1526362759|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along What a relief! A book about money, for children, with uncertain British weather clear explanations of what itis, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you's alway a good idea ve managed to have plans about activities which will involve and interest childrenget hold of it. In Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, 'Craft it Up Around the World'really' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertainedwant to buy. As the title suggests weThere're going on a world tour and you can pick s also the projects possibility of using to suit other activities you have planned, as a reminder of a holiday or just on a random basisdo good in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Keith WestDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It''Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line of books. Instead, these are what is known as hi-lo books. Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade level. I would estimate s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the reading level of this book to be roughly age eightKennedy Space Centre in Florida, 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 children's book. With the exception story of that journey remains one of 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 greatest survival stories of breaksall time. ''Survival in Space: The paper Apollo 13 Mission'' 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 confidencebrilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
|isbn= 0228818826
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal Dixon1609809173|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The book starts with a simple question. How would we copeBrash and elegant, sophisticated, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct controversial and were around today? Theyvibrant, the 1889 World're put s Fair in contextParis encompassed the best, going back to the beginnings of Planet Earth four worst and the beautiful from many countries and a half billion years ago cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and working forward concerts to show how life evolved stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them most hated monument to survive today. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eaters, ocean-dwellers French accomplishment and flying reptiles - are then looked at in some detaildaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848576536
|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharky and GeorgeLangford_Emily|title=DonEmily't You Dares Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise a great many of Sharky Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and Georgethere's ideas from our own childhood gamesno limit to 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 list were even numbers, but the days other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when childrenyou counted in threes which she called ''threeven''s games usually did take place outdoors. Most of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in Actually, this book), cops and robbers, boxes with confused me a pen and paper, made drip sand castles, skimmed little bit at first as they're a stone or built subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a dam in childhood. So you might ask - why do need a book to teach us games we already know how to play? The sad fact issubset of the even numbers, most of these games are rapidly being forgotten. but it all worked out well when I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide and seek gamesreally thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Davide Cali and Gabrriella GiandelliBuckingham_Dawn|title=Monsters The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and LegendsAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=My sons love stories What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of unsolved mysteries, monsters and mythical creatures. Like many boys, my oldest has a very strong leaning towards the non-fiction side Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of things. This book is for children who want to know how the legends were born, if any sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the creatures could be real, birds and what the science behind the story islistening to their song. Then - just because I could - I do feel this book is better suited to older children seeking a more rational explanation to the old stories, but my youngest went back and did enjoy it all again and it was just as wellgood the second time around. It might be useful for a child with a slight fear of monsters to So, what do you get a more realistic view of them, 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 of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263036</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk SciencePankhurst_Women|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Do Try This At Home - Cook It!!'' A lot of history is a fun, very boy friendly ( but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts about men. Kings and generals and inventors and a few science experiments with foodpoliticians. Not every recipe Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in this book includes science facts and in some the science bit is limited history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to mentioning vitamins read about or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruitregard as role models. Of course, or a water chestnut this isn't really a nut. But other recipes true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have quite a bit of scientific information. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hardachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, but makes cheese softeror created something never seen before. Children will learn what an emulsion isSo here, why onions make us cryin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, how yeast works, how to make a bouncing rubber-like egg and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalineare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn MurphyIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains and SupertrainsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains and Supertrains ''Women in Sport'' is divided into eight sections. The first four sections are questions on dinosaurs and prehistoric life, coming to us just before the human brain, natural disasters and finally transportWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The following four sections are much longer It celebrates a century and provide not only a half of the answers to the previous sectionsdevelopment of women' questionss sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, but a detailedskating, scientific explanation in clear easy to understand language that even my four year old can usually followand much more. These answers are very well written and quite interesting to both Think of my children, a sport and even as an adult I found a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this both educational and entertainingbook somewhere. I have to admit, I learned Each entry is a double-page spread with a few things from this book as well, brief biography and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge of the human brain before bringing this out againa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamRooney_Dino|title=Rescuing GusDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was ''convinced'' that she must be adopted: how could someone like her who ''loved'' dogs have been born to parents whoa child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, wellthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, wouldn't have them in the house? She wasn't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificate. Melissa wouldn't be able to have we meet a dog until she had a home variety of creatures, some of her own whom are very familiar but in some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the meantime she got various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a job at Battersea Dogs' Home and dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was there that she met Gus. He wasn't s very visual, placing the dinosaurs in the first flush of youth their habitats 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 homegiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>
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