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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt SewellZabriskie1|title=The Big Bird SpotA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs 'Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in the last few days. Finallyhow children learn, I found onesense , after visually sorting through all or process the other birds on the precipitous cliff faceworld were not treated as disorders to be corrected. It was great fun They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and very rewardingawareness, each holding value within the community. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for by a pair range of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very carelesspeople with different skills and different personalities, because you're going all contributing to have a whole that combines them all and to find the benefit of them in every pictureall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherB0GFQ81YQK|title=Lift-How the-Flap Sky and Colourthe Earth Made People: OceanFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet Before people came and they're home to nearly half of all speciesjoined the animals, apart from humans. We don't know a lot about there was only the oceans either - less than 5% of sky and the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautyearth. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-Everything was quiet until the-Flap earth and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity sky began to do a little exploration and tal to colour their own pictureseach other. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at First, the sea we see little more than earth created bodies. And then, the movement of sky breathed life into them. These were the waterfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, but especially how different it would they came to be if you could see a little of what . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is going on underneathwhy people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Lisa Jane Gillespie How the Sky and Yukai Duthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=100 Steps for ScienceStephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5

|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the Universe from earth and the smallest specks sky began to tal to each other. First, the largest space bound objectsearth created bodies. Point at anything And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and there will 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 some sort of scientist who has studied it. Trying When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is ambitious why the earth and should be lorded, but if you the sky are going both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to try , and do this; at least make it readablecare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleStephanie Zabriskie|title=Spot How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Mistake: Lands Oral Stories of Long AgoMaasai Elders|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children's children’s nonfiction book before and harangued it for containing errorsdrawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. This book has at least two hundred, and that's not ' The Maasai are a problemcattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Yes, Cattle are status and wealth in personifying Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the idea whole story of learning through your mistakesthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, we get ten large dioramas of historical activityand especially its women, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to try have with their cows and find them allfor the natural world. And The oral tradition retelling the learning is also heremany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usdoes. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1839948493|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one A World of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration Carlie Sorosiak and WonderLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. I kind In the interests of quite like itfull disclosure, I must tell you know – it seems to serve my purposethat I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I don've never met one I didn't think trust and I've taken too much out loved most of itthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, all toldany book about dogs, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close going to having visited a quarter of themsit down and devour. But way back when Then I just didn't get on with studying m going to go back and read itproperly. I didnAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs''t like geography – what , with having ninety-six pages devoted entirely to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldmy four-legged friends. But then, I didn't have Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the likes accidental owner of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband1529507987|title=The Story of SpaceRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in spacelove ''The Repair Shop''. Perhaps itIt's there because my go-to programme when I'm so old want to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (and thatbe cheered up. After a hard day, there's pretty old, itnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on mere worth. Perhaps You see, the value is in fact all young children what these possessions are interested in space anyway, worth to the people who own them and don't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonderthe memories they hold. But if they do, this No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the newest way of nudging desired result. Regular viewers know the newer child towards a keenness for experts and they're all things celestial. And brilliant at explaining what itis they's a pretty good way indeedre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton024162343X|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary= How many different kinds I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of living things are there on Eartha 'god'. Where was the proof? Lots…that 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 British army's how manysuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Children will learn lots and lots from this wonderful book Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I learned lots from 'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz 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 toocomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. There Kurt has to make sure the lamps are 100,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didnturned on at their very Orthodox neighbours'teach Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. This But this is one the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of those special books having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with crossopen arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-over appealups of Jews. Tiny children will adore 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 illustrationsUS, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts while Fritz and readers of any age will be moved by his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the message that we need same train to take better care Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of our beautiful environment. all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1913750353|title=Build a ... ButterflyBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=I love butterflies: they're one 'Britannica's Word of the delights of my garden Day'' 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. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ''s always ), gives you a pleasure when there are children there definition and they see then includes the word in a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as sentence so that you know how it rests on a flowershould be used. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies You also get an engaging and also to build a 3D model of our ownfrequently amusing illustration too. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that don't think I had 've ever encountered a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit tooword which uses the letter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo0711266204|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any The Secret Life of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Adam Hancher|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=FlightI have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. It happens all around usI've established which species feed from the ground, wherever we may be, and many are which pop to the young audience members feeders for this book a quick snatch of some food and who have taken to the air already. But it settles in for a good munch but I wish I was once something impossible to take for granted, and this book easily takes us back to those daysmore knowledgeable. It presents us with dangerwould have been wonderful if, determinationas a child, and I'd had access to a certain pair book such as ''The Secret Life of American brothers going all out to get both their names in the history books and their feet in the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>Birds''. So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The School Invisible World of MusicGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=35

|summary=I 'Germs' seems to have become a love/hate relationship with musiccatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. I love it In the first book in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDswhat looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have seen provided a clear and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead accessible introduction to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)world of germs. Only in the last few years have We get an informed look at how people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, originally thought about diseases and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big what they thought caused them and brass to lumber about on how the school bus with, dammitthinking has developed over time. But hey, whatThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is speak like a world scientist' which explains some of pleasure, mental the trickiest concepts and physical exercise and fun to you'll soon be had from being active in music? This bookfamiliar with bacteria, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-onfungi, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage protists and viruses – and informhow we should protect ourselves. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince1800464495|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required Your Baby’s Development by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have Nurturing a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLove of Maths|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum Activity BookEmma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Children ''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 adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott comprehending addition and Kathy Willis]] are going to love the subtraction at nine months old.''Botanicum Activity Book Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills. Don'' I didn't be misled by the suggestion 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 book is aimed at the seven-plus age group: theresame way about maths, beyond counting? I don's plenty t think we do, in here for anyone who is still capable part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of holding us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a pen or pencilsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer1406395404|title=The Street Beneath My FeetAwesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=It's one thing for 2020 has been a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardstrange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changedsleep problems. The artistic imagination has Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be key, in portraying the invisible, doing) and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookothers will worry unnecessarily. And this example does it at its bestMost people, as it delves into from children to adults will have the layers odd bad night but worrying about your lack of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetsleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's only one way to go from there – back out also the other sidefact that for far too long, with yet more for us lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to be shownseem like laziness. It's a fantastic journeyBeing up early, then – working late has been praised and a quite fantastic volumethe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1849767343|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=One The title and format of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts this book might lead you to think that it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). Youeither about responsibility - or it'll be pleased to know, however, that this s a basic 1-2-3 book is very light for those just starting out on death and destructionthe numbers journey. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed It isn't: it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing 's a dead mouse while in a time hymn of plenty, but there praise to maths. It's about why maths is so little to make this even a PG book – wonderful and how you meet it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schooleveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1849767009|title=My First Animals It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45

|summary=Get used This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to two simple words if you have a child, the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''Whatknow's That?'that it' You s shameful will hear avoid it over like they avoid the hot-and over and over again-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regretBut... Sometimes they will point at Rosie Haines makes it into something that is so much more than a book about not too familiarwearing clothes. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itIt's a bird type thingcelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Books that show images of itemsBodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's thatre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Andrea Beaty Anna Fiske and David RobertsDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|titlegenre=Home and Family|summary=Rosie RevereIt's Big Project Book for Bold Engineersmore 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 pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=For What a long time nowrelief! A book about money, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciencesfor children, engineering and suchlike. But I know with clear explanations of at least two sources of role models in that regard. Onewhat it is, most obviouslywhy it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is ''Star Wars'' – let's face out) and what you can do with it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the when you''Millennium Falcon'' with ease, and the likes ve managed to get hold of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesit. If you Your reasons for wanting money don't wish matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go too fantasticalinto business, or are seeking role models for the younger audiencebe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=Whatmight be something you really, ''s Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as Youreally've Never Seen It Before|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, and I didn't need want to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingbuy. IThere'm so old a lot s also the possibility of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose using to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is do good in the one to haveworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty178112938X|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=ArtDyslexia Friendly|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one Kennedy Space Centre in real life is quite a big askFlorida, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains story of that journey remains one of the future which can reach a speed greatest survival stories of 430 kph and don't even run on railsall time. Once the train reaches ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a speed brilliant retelling of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Women 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 Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the Worldan increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Rachel IgnotofskyJill Jonnes

|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World''Women s Fair in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Paris encompassed the best, the worst and celebrates their achievements. There are women the beautiful from the ancient world many countries and women working todaycultures. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on one side art shows, dance performances, food festivals and a page of text with a brief biography concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work the most hated monument to French accomplishment and their discoveries but also for daring – the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated AmericaEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1848576536|title=Forest Life Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Woodland CreaturesJem Maybank|rating=45 |genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals'Get under your own skin, pick your brains, plants and trees in it, then go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you're only going to be itching to go do and explore the woods for yourself. Ithonestly, I don's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide t see how you – but could resist. This informative book provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy taskswonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stickdigestion, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is right up to the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKLangford_Emily|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Never before have I Emily found much cause to point out the sort of lower-casewords ''useful'', almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookbut counting was what she loved best. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if Obviously, you have a youngster intending can count anything and there's no limit to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination how far you can holdgo, but then they may well be disappointedEmily moved a step further and began counting in twos. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then She knew all well about odd and goodeven numbers. And Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even betternumbers, if but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you expect yourself to counted in threes which she called ''makethreeven'' . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the bulk odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo GuignardBuckingham_Dawn|title=LabyrinthThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Of all the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was What a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. treat! I say this because they certainly werenreally did mean to just ''glance'' at 't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite The Little Book of the modern style of colouring-in books, but they were available, if youDawn Chorus'd gone beyond 'join but the dots'pull of the 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 read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencelistening to their song. But the ultimate in paperThen - just because I could -based fun I went back then and did it all again and it was just as good the use-once format of the maze booksecond time around. This is the modern equivalent – but boySo, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoPankhurst_Women|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=I'm sure I was full A lot of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questionshistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as I didrole models. Of course, I knew quite a lot about farms this isn't true and farming – that different animals gave different resultsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, that different vehicles meant different have achieved amazing things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city childor shown incredible bravery, there is a chance they have or created something never met a cow or seen a silobefore. This colourful bookSo here, bright in both senses of the wordthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, will allow are the very young reader the opportunity stories of some of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysidethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Life on EarthWomen in Sport: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I wonder how much time I've saved 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in not being February 2018. It celebrates a parent – century and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as why is the sky blueswimming, where did I come fromfencing, where does my wee come fromriding, what is earwaxskating, and why do I have much more. Think of a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions sport and the answers to them and more are a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book, which somewhere. Each entry is a lovely primer for biology, double-page spread with a brief biography and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare HibbertRooney_Dino|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=One of Lift the problems with presenting humankind's history as a timeline is that not flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a lot happened at perfectly identified timeschild. Of course This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we can pinpoint when the US Declaration meet a variety of Independence was signed, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939creatures, some of whom are very familiar but when (and even why) the Maya cities died out? We donsome I't know. How do d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you pin a date what the various dinosaurs are getting up to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book may aim to be creates a portrayal of key moments in timedinosaur experience, but even rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it admits you have to be vague 's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in itemising the specific days their habitats and dates. Get over giving us sounds too that, and the pages are packed with informationspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>