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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Theo GuignardStephanie Zabriskie|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to the benefit of them all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=LabyrinthHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=Of all Before people came and joined the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I animals, there was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited only the sky and revampedthe earth. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back thenEverything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. NoFirst, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in booksearth created bodies. And then, but they the sky breathed life into them. These were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and I remember remembered, especially how every church book sale for years had ''Origami''they came to be. When they grew old and died, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencetheir bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. But And that is why the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was earth and the use-once format of the maze booksky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. This And that is the modern equivalent – but boywhy people must pay attention to, and care for, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoB0GHPMNF6P|title=Life on How the Sky and the EarthMade People: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=I'm sure I Before people came and joined the animals, there was full of questions when I only the sky and the earth. Everything was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionsquiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all First, the timeearth created bodies. And then, do they? Living on the edge of a village in sky breathed life into them. These were the middle of nowhere as I didfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, I knew quite a lot about farms especially how they came to be. When they grew old and farming – that different animals gave different resultsdied, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that different vehicles meant different things is why the earth and that the crops behind our house changedsky are both revered. But for the inner city child, there is a chance Only together can they have never met a cow or seen a silocreate human beings. This colourful bookAnd that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoStephanie Zabriskie|title=Life on EarthHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had 'How Maasai Women Spoke to answer such pesky questions as why Cows is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart children’s nonfiction book drawn from the first twooral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, those questions Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and the answers this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to them be so. Cattle are status and more are wealth in Maasai culture but this bookdoesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, which is a lovely primer for biologyand especially its women, have with their cows and a great source of quick facts for the very youngnatural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1839948493|title=Moments in History that Changed the A Worldof Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=One In the interests of the problems with presenting humankindfull disclosure, I must tell you that I's history as a timeline is that not m a lot happened at perfectly identified timessucker for dogs. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration of Independence was signedIn nearly eight decades, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (I've never met one I didn't trust and even why) I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the Maya cities died out? same about human beings. We donSo, any book about dogs, I't knowm going to sit down and devour. How do you pin a date Then I'm going to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? go back and read it properly. This book may aim to be a portrayal And so it was with ''A World of key moments in timeDogs'', but even it admits you have with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be vague in itemising the specific days and datesmy four-legged friends. Get over that, and Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the pages are packed with informationaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=Baby Dinosaurs The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Follow the TrailIllustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary= If you ever have the misfortune to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece of advice; donlove ''The Repair Shop't take your finger and track their spine, don't put it in their mouth and don. It't s my go following them -to programme when I want to their parentbe cheered up. InsteadAfter a hard day, run. Run faster there's nothing better than you have watching experts repair treasured items without ever run before in the opposite directionmentioning what they're worth. The unfortunate thing You see, the value is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love in what these possessions are worth to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got the chance. Better play safe than sorry and just get people who own them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal Babies|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Many children love animals, but the memories they love baby animals even morehold. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer No expense appears to most children who enjoy be spared and the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that experts spend as much time and effort as is not dissimilar required to their ownachieve the desired result. However, someone needs to give them Regular viewers know the facts about baby animals experts and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packhamthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty024162343X|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history of space explorationlessons, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allwas probably worse still. So Not too long after the end of WWII, I wondidn't go into the extremes reached by so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'Voyagert dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' space craft, and as want to dispute what right the processes we needed army had to be expert there in before we could launch anythingthe first place. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet Looking back, I still believe I was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not right - but I regret that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is I lacked the history of books conveying all this maturity to a young audienceapproach 'the problem' politely. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, theywish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls Jeremy Dronfield and Lorna ScobieDavid Ziggy Greene|title= Pairs UnderwaterFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary= Following on from [[Pairs 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 Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie]]neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater'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. It But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a lift-national vote to keep the-flap book Nazis out, invite them in with the added twist of a game of open arms. ''MemoryKristallnacht'' thrown happened inVienna just as much as in Germany, as you try 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 match Britain or the pairs across US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each double page spreadother, 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1913750353|title=Little PeopleBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Big Dreams: Marie CurieRenee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses, but ''Britannica's Word of the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be Day'' has a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to do well Stretch Your Cranium and won a gold medal for her studiesTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. In Poland, in the middle of the nineteenth century It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', only men were allowed to go tells you how to Universitypronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in that you know how it should be used. You also get an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths engaging and science studentfrequently amusing illustration too. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman to receive I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the honour. Pierre was killed in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso0711266204|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=As I have recently discovered a child Agatha Christie great pleasure: I sit and her mother would read a book together every afternoon, but there were early signs watch the vast numbers of what the future novelist would become: she always had birds which visit our garden on a better idea about how the story should enddaily basis. She would read in bed at night and detective novels were always her favouritesAn hour can pass without my noticing. In I've established which species feed from the First World War Agathaground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who was then settles in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to for a good use when her first detective novels were published just after the end of the warmunch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Most people It would have heard been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs ChristieBirds''s novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie0192779230|title= Pairs in the GardenVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary='Germs'Pairs in seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawliespotential to make you ill. It's a lift- In the-flap first book with in what looks to be a differencevery promising new series, because not only do you OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get to see an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and whatthey thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's underneath, you then must see if you can find speak like a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process scientist' which explains some of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each pagethe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, but only 3 pairs to findprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc Martin1800464495|title=Lots100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia 'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is not a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a 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.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre =Teens|summary=2020 has been a 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 those used by adultsirrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Whilst Most people, from children to adults will have the older generation had odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make do with giant tomes filled with information and perhaps, if you are luckyit worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a small black virtue and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factssleep made to seem like laziness. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes this even further by reducing Being up early, working late has been praised and the facts even further and bombarding ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your eyeballs with illustrationsCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray Goddu1849767343|title=Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IICount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they The title and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end format of the line, where they this book might by hint or dint survive lead you to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book opens the eyes up in a most vivid fashion to for those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in just starting out on the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the Eastnumbers journey. Krysia's family were split up, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invaded, and then courtesy of Stalin, who had [[The DevilsIt isn' Alliancet: Hitlerit's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two states, before they turned bitter enemieshymn of praise to maths. KrysiaIt's family, living in the eastern city of Lwow, were packed up and sent – in the stereotypical cattle train – east. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, about why maths is so wonderful and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep how you meet it in Communist Soviet landseveryday life. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1849767009|title= Infographics: TechnologyIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceFor Sharing|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to discover the worldchoir': 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 like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. How do computers work? What It's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handydisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology'they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak1776572858|title= The Hello AtlasHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' ThatIt's more than sixty years since I asked how Azumi greets us in this babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a bookabout it. He's from Africa A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and he speaks HausaI was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Do you? Don I ''knew''t worry if notmore, because youbut was little ''wiser''re about to learn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk> Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaDosh: Animal!How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of bookwhat it is, why it matters, but how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's not always the most interestingve managed to get hold of it. A series of dry facts plastered Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all over the page with nary an image in sightneed it to some extent. This dry type of learning is never going You might want to work with some of our modern youthgo into business, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonesbe a clever shopper, than researching real ones in a book. If saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyesbuy. DK have attempted this There's also the possibility of using to do good in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to seeworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Ultimate Book of SpaceApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Space. For all the huge, empty expanse of it, itIt's a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centrein Florida, in but the hotbed story of cosmology and space science that is Leicester, is chock full journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this bookall time. It's a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out of the page, with things to turn and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a curtain wire. Within minutes brilliant retelling of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescope, and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Stationhappened. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actorBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don1889 World't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where s Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the only thing natural is worst and the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computersbeautiful from many countries and cultures. The eight ''Harry Potter'' filmsFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, also made in the UKput on art shows, needed a lot of computing power as welldance performances, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools food festivals and a keen eyeconcerts to stun the senses. What better way And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to start training French accomplishment and daring – the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1848576536|title=IncredibuildsHumanatomy: Aragog: Deluxe Model How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Book Set (Harry Potter)Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Aragog the giant spider''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, donand go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy''t invites you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models do and pieces of visual design workhonestly, he I don't see how you could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floorresist. Or, conversely, he is This informative book provides a wonderful primer about seven inches long and seven widethe human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and you put him together in a day or twodigestion, for right up to the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paintsDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonLangford_Emily|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. WellObviously, you have can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a tennis ball on a string, step further and point actors so they look at it, began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spaceeven numbers. You then film Toby Jones doing Then she began counting in threes: half of the elf's lineslist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in the threes which she called ''Harry Potterthreeven'' films. You can throw in a few puppets(Actually, and now and again this confused me a gifted small person, particularly little bit at first as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of film #7… Orthe even numbers, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts but it all worked out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillwell when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Kerry HyndmanBuckingham_Dawn|title=Survivors: Extraordinary Tales from The Little Book of the Wild Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and BeyondAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There can be few people who are not captivated by stories of survival - those people who by chance, through knowledge but mostly because of their strength of will, survive against all the odds. What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Survivors'at ' is a collection 'The Little Book of such stories the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of people, some the sounds of whom knew that what they were doing a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was dangerous, but many are those who found themselves in situations which seemed impossible, but who didn't give upfar too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. The result is a wonderful mixture of the scariness of I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the peril birds and the glorious uplift of survivallistening to their song. It's insightful, inspirational Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all absolutely trueagain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571316018</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice LetherlandPankhurst_Women|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=I've hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to cram a whole 'pocket-sized' book inread about or regard as role models. Of course, and while the book under concern here wonthis isn't comply eithertrue and there are plenty of women who, it's not far off. But it's an atlas – you knowthroughout history, one of those books that are usually clunky and hugehave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, fitting awkwardly on the bottom shelf and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browsecreated something never seen before. But So here, in this is a special kind wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of atlas – it's a compendium some of details, and very small details at that, of all the tiny things on our large planetthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Lesser Spotted Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute Women in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and LinsangSport: Now is your time Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWin|author= Rachel Williams and Carnovsky|title=IlluminatureIgnotofsky|rating=45

|summary=Like Halley''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's Cometsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, I am allowed out once every 70 yearscovering sports as diverse as swimming, or sofencing, for the nightriding, skating, and much more. On one such trip to the trendier side Think of London I was supping an ale a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in another Hipster Bar, but this one had a differencebook somewhere. The walls were covered in overlapping paintings of animals in different colours. So what? The trick was revealing said animals. The lights in the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing Each entry is a different set of creatures that reacted to that colour. It was cool after double-page spread with a few shandies, but now you can enjoy this process sober in brief biography and a new book all about using coloured lenses to find hidden animalsstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerRooney_Dino|title=Gruffalo Crumble Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Other RecipesSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=It is hard to imagine, but Lift the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years agoflap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling on. Certainlyone comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, you can buy the book or the sequelthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, but if you visit we meet a shop you will find Gruffalo toysvariety of creatures, cards, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea some of how to push the Gruf and pals. 2016 is the year of the recipe book, whom are very familiar but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page Tsou|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest Ocean|rating=3.5|genre=Childrensome I's Non-Fiction|summary=The greatest thing a good library can do is lie in wait, holding the weight of the entire world on its shelves. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship d never heard ofbefore! Each scene peels open, it can also store a huge gamut of facts, opinions and true taleslayer by layer, transporting a reader when they choose to take a book down and read it wherever they want to go. This book is one of those that can take showing you places, too – 3.6 metres down into what the earth, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself various dinosaurs are getting up to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; or to the hottest or driestwith background noises, or most rained-on place. It can take you back to prehistory and size you up against the biggest raptors roars and other dinosaurs, or to the centre of the very earth itself. There the pressure is akin squawks to having the entire Empire State Building sat on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor|title=Secrets of the Sea|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When the young are urged to explore the world around accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, we adults never state rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it, but there's a huge section of the world they are quite unlikely to go investigating in. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter itvery visual, and while it's huge it's not on every doorstep. I'm talking about placing the ocean, of course – which is where books such as this come dinosaurs in to explain their habitats and illustrate the topic. With so much of it to be researched and encountered, you never know – this book might well inspire a pioneering discovery some time in the futuregiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>