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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn= Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie 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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert HansenB0GFQ81YQK|title= Cool CodingHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: filled with fantastic facts for kids From the Oral Stories of all agesMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 34.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to coding aimed at ages 10 tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and upwardsthey belonged to both earth and sky. This book 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 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 filled with enthusiasmwhy people must pay attention to, informationand care for, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat of its goalsboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Dan Farrell How the Sky and Donna Bamfordthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=The Movie Making BookStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=In my youth we had Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded ontoeach other. First, the earth created bodies. This mini-tape would And then slip , the sky breathed life into a casing that could 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 watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD player, but with awful fidelity). In all, making a film was a big When they grew old faffand died, but trying their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to do anything fancy was almost impossiblethe sky. There And that is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because they why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can do something does not mean they will be any goodcreate human beings. A guide And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>, both.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim HopgoodStephanie Zabriskie|title=Doodle DogsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Best in ShowFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Doodle DogsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' introduces The Maasai are a wide variety 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 artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can be created very easilyintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailedespecially its women, have with their cows and interestingfor the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, than you perhaps previously appreciated!does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1839948493|title=Think A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Make Like an ArtistLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5
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|summary=Having been banned from In the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarksinterests of full disclosure, I am not sure must tell you that I ever want to think or make like an artist'm a sucker for dogs. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most artof them. I see a rain dirty valley, but wish I felt the artists sells you Brigadoonsame about human beings. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant So, any book about dogs, I'm going to represent; even sit down and devour. Then I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed'm going to go back and read it properly. ThereforeAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to teach art appreciation to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with love ''The Repair Shop''how do you spell...? It'' would s my go-to programme when I want to be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''cheered up. This was fineAfter a hard day, but the familythere's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didnnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't encourage explorationre worth. You see, not least because the font was small value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and difficult to readthe memories they hold. Fortunately those times have now changed No expense appears to be spared and reference book for children are now the experts spend as much more invitingtime and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'How tore doing...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley024162343X|title=First Science EncyclopediaStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children the bad company other people got into at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the subjects and give existence of a good grounding'god'. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in Where was the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. proof? The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=The British Museum|title=OrigamiIn history lessons, Poems and Pictures|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a bookit was probably worse still. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet Not too long after the end of WWII, I discovered didn't so much want to learn about the British army'Origamis successes (and occasional failures, Poems and Picturesbut we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' and I was transported as want to Japan. As dispute what right the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: army had to be there in the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and paintingfirst place. Looking back, I still believe I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, right - but I was surprised by regret that I lacked the extent maturity to which approach 'the rest of the book caught my imaginationproblem' politely. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case youI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from s 'simple' through to Stolen History'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Beautiful GameFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write 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 season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from empty market place, helping the throne of English footballneighbours, being dutiful when itcomes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's common knowledge that red is each Friday night – the more successful colour to wearSabbath 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 that flame red? Blood red? The red going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up Nazis out, invite them in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? with open arms. And while we're on about colour'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, where were as did all the people round-ups of colour in football 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 olden days? There US, while Fritz and his father are so many darker sides , unknown initially to football's history it's enough each other, packed off on the same train to make a young lad question Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the whole game…adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1913750353|title=The Big Bird SpotBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at ''Britannica's Word of the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as Day'' has a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to one of the puffins whoStretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus''d arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through which probably tells you all the other birds on the precipitous cliff facethat you need to know about this brilliant book. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewellstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s first book for children, tells you how to pronounce it (''The Big Bird Spotraz-muh-TAZ''), shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you're going to know how it should be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls used. You also get an engaging and razorbillsfrequently amusing illustration too. Oh, and youI don't think I're looking for ve ever encountered a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher0711266204|title=Lift-the-Flap The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Colour: OceanVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
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|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our planet and theygarden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I're home to nearly half of all ve established which speciesfeed from the ground, apart from humans. We don't know which pop to the feeders for a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% quick snatch of the area has been explored, some food and who settles in for a good munch but it is an area of outstanding beautyI wish I was more knowledgeable. With Alice BowsherIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I's d had access to a book such as ''Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanThe Secret Life of Birds'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of So – what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du0192779230|title=100 Steps Very Short Introductions for ScienceCurious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5
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|summary=Science is 'Germs' seems to have become a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Universe from potential to make you ill. In the smallest specks first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the largest space bound objectsworld of germs. Point We get an informed look at anything how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and there will be some sort of scientist who how the thinking has studied itdeveloped over time. Trying to fit all The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious the trickiest concepts and should you'll soon be lordedfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, but if you are going to try protists and viruses – and do this; at least make it readablehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1800464495|title=Spot the Mistake100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Lands Support All Areas of Long AgoYour Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
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|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before 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 harangued it for containing errorssubtraction at nine months old. This book has at least two hundred'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, and double thatof literacy skills.'s not ' 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 problemsolid foundation when they start school. YesBut do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in personifying the idea part because so many of us are afraid of learning through your mistakes, maths. But why are we get ten large dioramas ? Most of historical activity, all containing twenty things 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 shouldnstatement. 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't ve got loads to be theredoing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Your taskMost people, should you choose from children to accept it, adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to try and find them allmake it worse. And there's also the learning is also herefact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as we get text a virtue and sleep made to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usseem like laziness. Make no mistakeBeing up early, this is a clever working late has been praised and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1849767343|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 Count 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 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>}}{{newreviewMe|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderMiguel Tanco
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|summary=The Earth. I kind title and format of quite like it, this book might lead you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think Ithat it've taken too much out of it, all told, and if s either about responsibility - or it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter of thembasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. But way back when I just didnIt isn't get on with studying : it's a hymn of praise to maths. I didnIt't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes s about why maths is so wonderful and whatnot I think how you meet it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I couldin everyday life. But then, I didn't have the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband1849767009|title=The Story of SpaceIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I This could have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itbeen one of those books which 's there because Ipreaches to the choir'm so old to almost coincide with : the last Apollo astronauts being on only people who'll buy it are the moon (people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' thatit's pretty old, shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes itinto something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's been so long) a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and it kind of rubbed off on meevery possible hue. Perhaps in fact all young children are interested in space anyway, Bodies with disabilities and donmarkings. They't need any impetus or reason to look up in wonderre fine. But if In fact, they do, this is the newest way of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeedre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton1776572858|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thatIt's more than sixty years since I asked how manybabies were made. Children will learn lots My mother was deeply embarrassed and lots from this wonderful told me that she'd get me a book. I learned lots from about it too. There are 100A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I certainly didnwas told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn'tsomething which nice people talked about''. This is one of those special books with cross-over appeal I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Tiny children will adore the illustrations Thankfully, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts and readers of any age will be moved by the message that we need to take better care of our beautiful environmenttimes have changed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung1526362759|title=Build a ... ButterflyDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love butterflies: they're one What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of the delights what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of my garden it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly ve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for the first time, as wanting money don't matter: we all need it rests on a flowerto some extent. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity You might want to learn about butterflies go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and also there might be something you really, ''really'' want to build a 3D model of our ownbuy. The book is primarily aimed at There's also the five possibility of using to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted ladydo good in the world. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo178112938X|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by fifty years since the winners'. Well, too often history, Apollo 13 mission was launched from the news and even destinies are written by menKennedy Space Centre in Florida, and but the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become story of that journey remains one of the most richly-backed crowd-funded book evergreatest survival stories of all time. 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. ISurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'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 a brilliant retelling of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against mewhat happened. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam HancherKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Taking Flight: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|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.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People
|author=Jill Jonnes
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Flight. It happens all around usBrash and elegant, wherever we may besophisticated, controversial and many are vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the young audience members for this book who have taken to worst and the air alreadybeautiful from many countries and cultures. But it was once something impossible to take for grantedThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and this book easily takes us back concerts to those daysstun the senses. It presents us with danger, determinationAnd towering above it all, the most popular and a certain pair of American brothers going all out the most hated monument to get both their names in the history books French accomplishment and their feet in daring – the skies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809286</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost1848576536|title=The School of MusicHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=35
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|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it in that I ''Get under your own several large bookshelves full of CDsskin, pick your brains, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (do and that only with my handshonestly, never with my feet at the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasndon't looking)see how you could resist. That from This informative book provides a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber wonderful primer about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, what's the use of my own example being so offhuman body to curious children-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active in music? This book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed skeletal system to encourage and inform. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince|title= Ballerina Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, howeverthe muscular system via circulation, always a place for the structured tuition respiration and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaeladigestion, growing right 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 warDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Scott and Kathy WillisLangford_Emily|title=Botanicum Activity BookEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|summary=Children Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and adults who enjoyed [[Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum) by Katie Scott began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and Kathy Willis]] are going to love even numbers. 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 ''Botanicum Activity Bookthreeven''. Don't be misled by the suggestion that the book is aimed (Actually, this confused me a little bit at the seven-plus age group: therefirst as they's plenty in here for anyone who is still capable re a subset of holding the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a pen or pencilsubset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706791</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Charlotte Guillain Caz Buckingham and Yuval ZommerAndrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the 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 spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=The Street Beneath My FeetFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern A lot of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know history is about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changedmen. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, Kings and generals and inventors and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookpoliticians. And this example does Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at its bestall, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yardrole models. Of course, down this isn't true and down, through all the different kinds there are plenty of rockwomen who, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other sidethroughout history, with yet more for us to be have achieved amazing things or shownincredible bravery, or created something never seen before. It's a fantastic journeySo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, then – and a quite fantastic volumeare the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval ZommerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One ''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 many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II development of women's sport by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one looking at fifty of all the blood and guts it features – yesits highest achievers, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesycovering sports as diverse as swimming, comical onesfencing, what's worse). You'll be pleased to knowriding, howeverskating, that this book is very light on death and destructionmuch more. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks Think of meat (while the females that caught a sport and killed a pioneering woman succeeding at it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even double-page spread with a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in brief biography and a primary schoolstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija MetsolaRooney_Dino|title=My First Animals Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Get used to two simple words if you Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, hatwe meet a variety of creatures, my sense some of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too whom are very familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itbut some I's a bird type thing. Books that show images d never heard of itemsbefore! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, colours or animals may seem a little dull showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to an adult, but with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a toddler learning dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about the world they are a who's who of whatdinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too thatspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>
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