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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Eye BendersHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: The Science From the Oral Stories of Seeing and BelievingMalagasy Elders|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=My husband doesn't usually do booksBefore people came and joined the animals, but when this arrived in there was only the sky and the post it earth. Everything was a good two hours before anyone could get it out of his hands. The whole family ended up joining in quiet until the earth and commenting on the sky began to tal to each illustration or illusionother. On First, the surfaceearth created bodies. And then, it just seems like some light-hearted funthe 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 died, their bodies returned to the earth and this book certainly their life returned to the sky. And that is funwhy the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. But in addition And that is why people must pay attention to being great fun, this is an incredibly educational book as welland care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400842</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey KellyB0GHPMNF6P|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
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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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{{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=Richard Hammond's Great Mysteries A World of the WorldDogs|author=Richard HammondCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered whether or not In the Loch Ness Monster actually exists? What about the Abominable Snowman? Do interests of full disclosure, I must tell you think about what really goes on inside the Bermuda Triangle? Well, donthat I't expect m a definitive answer from Richard Hammondsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I's ve never met one I didn't trust and I'Great Mysteries ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the World''same about human beings. You So, any book about dogs, I'll have m going to make up your own mind after being presented with the argumentssit down and devour. You Then I'll need m going to marshal your brainpowergo back and read it properly. There are eighteen mysteries here And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', arranged within with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four topics - Weird Waters, Alien Encounters, Creepy Creatures and Ancient Treasureslegged friends. All Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the biggies are hereaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370332377</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Deadly Detectives: Top Tips to Track WildlifeThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Steve BackshallWalker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Steve Backshall is best known for his Deadly 60 seriesI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, which focuses on deadly predatorsthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. This book has plenty of predators from all around You see, the world, but it also includes many less dangerous creatures, including a fair amount on animals value is in the UK. Tracking a fox may not sound as exciting as tracking a leopard, but it something many children may find a chance what these possessions are worth to do in the UK, people who own them and Steve very helpfully shows the reader how memories they hold. No expense appears to differentiate between a fox print be spared and that of a dog. The book has several other footprint illustrations, teaching children subtle differences between may types of prints. It even had crab the experts spend as much time and bird prints effort as is required to look for at achieve the seasidedesired result. But this Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is about so much more than tracking and footprintsthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006436</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Bones RockStolen History|author=Peter L Larson and Kristin DonnanSathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most children go through 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 dinosaur phase'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but there are always a few children who are completely captivated by dinosaurs - and everything that goes with themit was probably worse still. This is Not too long after the most detailed palaeontology book for children end of WWII, I have ever found. This book is written for older childrendidn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, even teens who may wish but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to seriously consider palaeontology be called 'the colonies' as a career choicewant to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. The book begins, not with dinosaurs Looking back, I still believe I was right - but with science. The book explains how science works. It presents science, not as a set of facts, but of theories and ideas I regret that are subject I lacked the maturity to change. Science becomes a living and fluid thing rather than a stuffy set facts to memoriseapproach 'the problem' politely. Reading this book, I can almost forget how much wish I hated science as a child'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>193122935X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alan Turing (Real Lives)Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|authortitle=Jim EldridgeFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…
|isbn=024156574X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Alan Turing was one of Britain''Britannica's greatest thinkers Word of the last centuryDay'' has a sub-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. He did pioneering work It starts on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also a hero of World War IIJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', working in the famous codetells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-breaking community at Bletchley ParkTAZ''), cracking German naval codes gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the man who beat the Enigma machine. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=How the Meteorite Got to the Museum0711266204|author=Jessie Hartland|rating=4|genretitle=For Sharing|summary=This is a cumulative tale in which one small event sets off a chain The Secret Life of other events which are repeated throughout the story. If your child loves books like ''This is the House That Jack Built'', this may prove a very useful addition to you home library, but this is a type of story telling which I have found some children really take to, and others do not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052528</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Discover the Savage WorldBirds|author=Simon Adams, Camilla de la Bedoyere, Ian Graham, Steve Parker, Phil Steele, Clint Twist Moira Butterfield and Amanda AskewVivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The range I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of subjects covered in ''Discover the Savage World'' is astonishingbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. The first three chapters are science related topicsAn hour can pass without my noticing. The first section I''Earth's Power'' covers the birth of ve established which species feed from the universeground, earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters. '' Deadly Nature'' brings new meaning which pop to the phrase ''acting like animals'', as we see the darker side feeders for a quick snatch of nature, from venomous creatures, deadly carnivores some food and who settles in for a real surprise about a very common and well known birdgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. ''Wild Science'' has a mixed bag of topics with dangerous elements It would have been wonderful if, explosions, fireworks and exactly how as a bullet workschild, as well as the birth of a star. ''Tough Machines'I' 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 d had access to geography with ''Harsh Lands'' show a myriad of cultures and lifestyles in inhospitable locations. Life is difficult in some regions due to nature, but man made hazards like Chernobyl and land mines occur book such as well. Finally we close with history and ''Brutal BattlesThe Secret Life of Birds''. 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 a heavy focus on snipers and the Battle of Kursk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848109180</amazonuk>So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192779230|title=Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of SpaceGerms|author=Dominic Walliman and Ben NewmanIsabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The first thing I noticed about this book was 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the illustrations. There is a strong nostalgic feel potential to this that makes me think of space race era film clips and early Flash Gordon comicsmake you ill. Perhaps it was In the wonderfully fun illustrations that made me assume (incorrectly) that this would be less academic than most of the books first book in our space collection. I was expecting this what looks to be a fun light read. It was certainly funvery promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the whole family loved this book, but it was anything but a light readworld of germs. We spent three days reading this book, researching topics online after reading get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them, engaging and how the entire family in debates on space, conducting experiments inspired by our research etc.thinking has developed over time.. We had to rearrange our entire school week - and we still havenThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't finished - we have speak like a number of new projects inspired by this book planned for next week as well. This book is, without any doubt one scientist' which explains some of the most educational books we have ever readtrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, all the while not only holding the children's interestfungi, but completely captivating themprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263079</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title=The Book Of Space100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All About Stars, Planets and Rockets!Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Clive GiffordEmma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=There's always a danger in putting a definitive article 'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the name womb, being aware of a children's non-fiction book title. Luckily enough this volume does go almost as far as making itself definitivequantities at seven hours old, with a lot of numbers and factsassessing probability at six months old, yet a delivery that makes all of those and the theories comprehending addition and terminology it uses all palatable to the browser, and still manages to throw in the redundant unfunny cartoons subtraction at the sidenine months old. 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 '' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on other editors choose, this proves one entry to school is a strong predictor of the more soberlater achievement, measured and successful books double that of its kindliteracy skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551398</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|isbn=1406395404|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2014The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Robert Leroy RipleyNicola Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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 ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1849767343
|title=Count on Me
|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I donThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it't normally do annuals. Is either about responsibility - or it'm afraid too many of the silly cartoon variety put me off s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the genre, but this is something completely differentnumbers journey. It seems isn't: it's a shame hymn of praise to even call it an annualmaths. Instead I would call this an interactive encyclopaedia of the bizarre, unusual, twisted It's about why maths is so wonderful and absolutely delightful facts that challenge how you to 'Believe meet it or not!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947166</amazonuk>in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=Horrid HenryIt Isn's World Recordst Rude to be Nude|author=Francesca Simon and Tony RossRosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=My son chose this book because he does like Horrid Henry, and he especially loves books with facts. As a parent, I This could have tried to supply my children with a wide choice been one of reading material, but I have those books which 'preaches to admit, I have leaned more towards fiction than non fiction simply because I mistakenly assumed the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it would be more funlike they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Girls do tend to prefer fiction, Rosie Haines makes it into something so I based my choices upon my own childhood reading habitsmuch more than a book about not wearing clothes. But when my sons began to beg for It''books s a bout real thingscelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they', I saw the error of my waysre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009214</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=Dork Diaries OMG: All About Me Diary!How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Rachel Renee RussellAnna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I feel a pattern formingasked how babies were made. After three books in the [[:Category:Rachel Renee Russell|Dork Diaries series]] came a throw-away, [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|tie-in volume]] My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that offered she'd get me a bit of a story to book about it but was not full-on plot and action like the routine books. After six real novels comes this, where for the first time the star A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the book really is not Nikki Maxwellbasics, but whoever buys it (or gets it bought for themin clinical language which had never been used in our house before). This is where the franchise branches away from fiction, to cover the purchaser or fan of the series, and gives her the chance to spill I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about herself, her school life, and her BFFs''. I think this is where I'm supposed to go 'knew'SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!'more, but was little '|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117731</amazonuk>'wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=100 PeopleDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Masayuki SebeRashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=OKWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, I'll admit – sometimes there comes a time when why it would appear terribly easy matters, how to post a review acquire more of a book, it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when something so self-explanatory pops up that a description you've managed to get hold of it hardly seems necessary. And 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 can judge the contents of this book similarly easily too – it takes the might even become an ''Top Ten of Everythinginvestor'' format developed by the late Russell Ash, ) and makes it funkierthere might be something you really, smaller, more brashly colourful, and apparently, suitable for boys''really'' want to buy. There are unofficial, opinionated lists, and bits where kids can scribble their own content and ratings. But despite how easy it is 's also the possibility of using to get a handle on do good in the book, I do hereby solemnly swear etc that I read almost every word, and just as I should, even no longer being a boy I learned a lotworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600623459</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Make a MobileSurvival in Space: 12 Cool Designs to Press Out and HangThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=Lydia CrookDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=CraftsDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Make a MobileSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a delightful crafting book crammed full brilliant retelling of projects for parents and children to share. The book contains 12 unique designs that fit together beautifully and are surprisingly easy to makewhat happened. The perforated pages allow the components of each mobile to be simply pushed out from the page without the need for nimble scissor skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005807</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|isbn=1609809173|title=Space in 30 SecondsEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Clive Gifford and Dr Mike GoldsmithJill Jonnes|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was a ladBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and reading books on space science vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from my school library, they were nothing like thismany countries and cultures. There was little that was as colourfulThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, no recap for every pageput on art shows, no homework suggestionsdance performances, food festivals and certainly there was nothing as up-concerts to-date as exoplanets or stun the latest dimensions of senses. And towering above it all, the International Space Station. Many of most popular and the changes are valuable, most hated monument to French accomplishment and make this volume quite a successdaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1848576536|title=Myths in 30 SecondsHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Anita GaneriNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back when I was 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''Get under your own skin, and certainly there was not the global PC-flavoured reach that broadened things out from Greekpick your brains, Roman and the occasional bit of Norse myth. Yougo inside your insides!'ll excuse me if I say why in this instance all those changes aren't completely for the better.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005742</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Abadee and Cath ArmstrongLangford_Emily|title=Craft it Up Around the WorldEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With long summer holidays looming ahead along with uncertain British weather itEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's alway no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a good idea to have plans step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about activities which will involve odd and interest childreneven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''Craft it Up Around the World'threeven' we've got thirty five suggestions for projects which will keep children entertained. As the title suggests we(Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're going on a world tour and you can pick subset of the projects odd numbers but sound as though they ought to suit other activities you have planned, as be a reminder subset of a holiday or just on a random basisthe even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782490388</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Keith WestCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''Collins Read Onat '' books are not specifically listed as a dyslexia friendly line The Little Book 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 the reading level of this book to be roughly age eight, Dawn Chorus'' but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like pull of 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 sounds of a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink with dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a large standard fontcold and rather wet February morning. The print is double spaced, with short paragraphs I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and chapters giving the reader plenty of breakslistening to their song. The paper is thick enough that print Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and pictures from it was just as good the other side will not show throughsecond time around. This combined with the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal DixonPankhurst_Women|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The book starts with a simple questionA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. How would we copeSometimes, how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct and it feels almost as though there were around today? They're put no women in contexthistory at all, going back let alone ones young girls might like to the beginnings read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of Planet Earth four and a half billion years ago and working forward to show how life evolved and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them to survive todaywomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eatersSo here, meat-eatersin this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked at in the stories of some detailof them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Judith Kerr's CreaturesWomen in Sport: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a great many half of Sharky and George's ideas from our own childhood games, in the days when childrendevelopment of women's games usually did take place outdoors. Most sport by looking at fifty of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book)its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, cops and robbersfencing, boxes with a pen and paperriding, made drip sand castlesskating, skimmed and much more. Think of a stone or built sport and a dam pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in childhoodthis book somewhere. So you might ask Each entry is a double- why do need page spread with a book to teach us games we already know how to play? 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 brief biography and seek gamesa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Davide Cali and Gabrriella GiandelliRooney_Dino|title=Monsters Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and LegendsSuzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Do Try Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This At Home - Cook Itone comes with sounds!!'' is Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a funvariety of creatures, some of whom are very boy friendly ( familiar but not just for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts and a few science experiments with food. Not every recipe in this book includes science facts and 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 isnI't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit d never heard of scientific information. For instance this will tell before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softer. Children will learn what an emulsion isthe various dinosaurs are getting up to, why onions make us crywith background noises, how yeast works, how roars and squawks to make accompany them! The book creates a bouncing rubber-like egg dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution giving us sounds too that will tell if a substance is acid or alkalinespike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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