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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael SaundersZabriskie1|title=National TrustA Village Where Many Ways Meet: Go Wild A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in the WoodsIndigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comforts. Always have been''Across many African and Indigenous systems, always will – and creature comforts don't involve snuggling down differences in a sleeping baghow children learn, however comfortablesense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to watch creatures, as far be corrected. They were understood as I'm concerned. Luckily, however, many people are natural variations of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and about, taking whatever weather human intelligence and wildlife can throw at themawareness, and spending time out of doors for each holding value within the hell community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of itthat tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. This book It shows that a community or society is the first stage 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 needs to be read in full before you step out your front doorthe benefit of them all. And even if it's your ''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us NowB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Story How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of the CarMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. I can't think of many Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other subjects that inspired . First, the earth created bodies. And then, the young me to have a full non-fiction book about sky breathed life into them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturityThese were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. But the young child these days won't And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be much different, for good or bad. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for their life returned to the shelfsky. And this that is pretty much why the earth and the go-sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to volume , and care for such an interest, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenB0GHPMNF6P|title=In FocusHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: CitiesFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections Before people came and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-upsjoined the animals, cross sections there was only the sky and/or cutways, but here we're restricted to just tenthe earth. Why? Because Everything was quiet until the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home earth and the sky began to tal to 37 million peopleeach other. First, of all thingsthe earth created bodies. Yes, we're talking citiesAnd then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and while this book tries they belonged to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, both earth and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territorysky. We're seeking the trivial, the geographical And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and the culturalremembered, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety especially how they came to be had in the world's metropolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches the earth and their life returned to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn pointsky. Alongside And that is why the survival mode there is also earth and the Creative sidesky are both revered. This book explores what you Only together can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratchthey create human beings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide And that is why people must pay attention to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide , and care for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>, both.

{{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=Children's NonThe Maasai are a cattle-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village 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 middle whole story of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacularintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngsterespecially its women, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown with their cows and for the diversity of natural world. The oral tradition retelling the bird world in snippets of textmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, and some quite unusual illustrations…does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1839948493|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages|rating= 3|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwards. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat A World of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Dan Farrell Carlie Sorosiak and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that would fit I'm a mini-tape that you recorded ontosucker for dogs. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerIn nearly eight decades, but with awful fidelity)I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. In allSo, making a film was a big old faffany book about dogs, but trying I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to do anything fancy was almost impossiblego back and read it properly. There is no longer this excuse for kids today And so it was with their camera enabled smart devices''A World of Dogs'', but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1529507987|title=Doodle Dogs: Best in ShowThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''Doodle DogsThe Repair Shop'' introduces . It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a wide variety of artistic styles through hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the idea of a dog show! memories they hold. Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs, all of which can No expense appears to be created very easily, spared and the experts spend as much time and you soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailed, effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith024162343X|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from I was the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarks, bad company other people got into at school. I am not sure that was disruptive in religious education classes because I ever want to think or make like an artistdisputed the existence of a 'god'. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I see a rain dirty valleydidn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (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 artists sells you Brigadoonfirst place. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I have been swayed on occasion once regret that I have been informedlacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusFritz and Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=One 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 most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to use reference booksthe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. As a child every question which I began with Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as it says in the dictionary''a light switch. This was fine, but But this is the time just before the familyAustrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage explorationwill, not least because the font was small and difficult instead of having a national vote to readkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much more invitingas in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. Not every book comes These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with a set his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of instructions but it's worth studying an evacuation to Britain or the ''How to...'' sectionUS, not least because similar systems while Fritz and his father are used in , unknown initially to each other reference books, 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>0241286972</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling Kindersley1913750353|title=First Science EncyclopediaBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=I wasn't introduced 'Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'science' until I was eleven and went on which probably tells you all that you need to senior school: I wasn't alone in know about this, but it really was too latebrilliant book. Thankfully It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', times have changed and children at primary school are getting tells you how to grips with plants and animalspronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), atoms gives you a definition and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all then includes the subjects and give word in a good groundingsentence so that you know how it should be used. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library You also get an engaging and comfortably on a child's bookshelffrequently amusing illustration too. The I don't think I'First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>ve ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0711266204|title=The British MuseumSecret Life of Birds|titleauthor=Origami, Poems Moira Butterfield and PicturesVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Recently I stood on have recently discovered a viewing platform at great pleasure: I sit and watch the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a very helpful volunteer guided daily basis. An hour can pass without my sight line noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to one the feeders for a quick snatch of the puffins some food and who'd arrived on the cliffs settles in the last few daysfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. FinallyIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first d had access to a book for children, such as ''The Big Bird SpotSecret Life of Birds'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, 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 a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher So – what is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher0192779230|title=Lift-the-Flap and ColourVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: OceanThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=When you think about it, it's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and theyGerms're home seems to nearly half of all species, apart from humans. We don't know have become a lot about the oceans either catch- less than 5% of all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the area has been explored, but it is an area of outstanding beautypotential to make you ill. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-In the-Flap first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two Isabel Thomas have the opportunity to do provided a little exploration clear and accessible introduction to colour their own picturesthe world of germs. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the sea we see little more than the movement thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the watertrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, but fungi, protists and viruses – and how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du1800464495|title=100 Steps for ScienceWays 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=Science ''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 a far reaching subject strong predictor of later achievement, double that covers almost everything of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that exists 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 Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objectssame way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. Point at anything But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and there it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be some sort just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of scientist who Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has studied itbeen a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Trying to fit all Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and should be lordedothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but if you are going worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to try and do this; at least make it readableworse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle1849767343|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=YouThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it'll like as not have seen a childrens either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book before and harangued it for containing errorsthose just starting out on the numbers journey. This book has at least two hundred, and thatIt isn't: it's not a problemhymn of praise to maths. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldnIt't be there. Your task, should s about why maths is so wonderful and how you choose to accept meet it, is to try and find them allin everyday life. And the learning is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show us. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares1849767009|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=WeThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir're in Paris, : the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For one, the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it seems like they think avoid the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is -and-bothered person in the middle supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of the biggest city in the worldbodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. For anotherIn fact, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder 're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able to copeFamily|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. Meanwhile, My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a young girl is dreaming book about it. A couple of flightdays 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 so many are wont to doit ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonistsbut was little ''wiser''. They will Thankfully, times have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, to go it alone and become the first female pilotchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1526362759|title=The Earth BookDosh: A World of Exploration and WonderHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=4.5

|summary=The Earth. What a relief! I kind A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of quite like what itis, you know – why it seems matters, how to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out acquire more of it, all told, (nope - robbing banks is out) and if what you can do with itwhen you's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close ve managed to having visited a quarter get hold of themit. But way back when I just didnYour reasons for wanting money don't get on with studying matter: we all need itto some extent. I didn't like geography – what with having You might want to draw mapsgo into business, be a clever shopper, oxbow lakes a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') 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 couldthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. But then, I didnThere't have s also the likes possibility of this book using to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>do good in the world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Catherine BarrDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, Steve Williams but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Amy HusbandSara Chadwick|title=The Story of SpaceNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in space. Perhaps itBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with Fair in Paris encompassed the last Apollo astronauts being on best, the moon (worst and that's pretty old, it's been so long) the beautiful from many countries and it kind of rubbed off on mecultures. Perhaps in fact The French Republic laid out model villages from all young children are interested in space anywaytheir colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and don't need any impetus or reason concerts to look up in wonderstun the senses. But if they doAnd towering above it all, this is the newest way of nudging most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeedEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton1848576536|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=5

|summary= How many different kinds of living things are there on Earth? Lots…that''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's how many. Children will learn lots what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and lots from this wonderful book. I learned lots from it too. There are 100honestly,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didndon'tsee how you could resist. This is one of those special books with crossinformative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children-over appeal. Tiny children will adore from the skeletal system to the illustrationsmuscular system via circulation, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts respiration and readers of any age will be moved by digestion, right up to the message DNA that makes who we need to take better care of our beautiful environmentare. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki LjungLangford_Emily|title=Build a ... ButterflyEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=I love butterflies: theyEmily found words ''useful''re one of the delights of my garden , but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and itthere's always no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a pleasure when there are children there step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and they see a butterfly close upeven numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, possibly for but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first time, as it rests on they're a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us subset of the opportunity odd numbers but sound as though they ought to learn about butterflies and also to build be a 3D model subset of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age groupeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted ladyreally thought about it. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elena Favilli and Francesca CavalloBuckingham_Dawn|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=ItWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at 's been said very often that 'history is told by The Little Book of the winnersDawn 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. Well, too often history, I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the news birds and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these coverslistening to their song. Then - just because I didn't know anything about this before reading could - I went back and did it, even if all again and it has become was just as good the most richly-backed crowd-funded book eversecond time around. I'd never heard of the Hollow FlashlightSo, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if what do youget?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=5|genre=Children're old enough to remember the brous Non-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radioFiction|summary=A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forcedSometimes, arranged marriageit feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes let alone ones young girls might like to write for herselfread about or regard as role models. My ignorance mayOf course, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is malethis isn' t true and that the media there are phallocentricplenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. I hope too that So here, in this wonderful picture book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feministfrom Kate Pankhurst, for that would be as bad as are the chauvinist charge against mestories of some of them. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam HancherIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Taking FlightWomen in Sport: How the Wright Brothers Conquered the SkiesFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Flight''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It happens all around uscelebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, wherever we may beskating, and many are the young audience members for this book who have taken to the air alreadymuch more. But Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it was once something impossible to take for granted, and is probably in this book easily takes us back to those dayssomewhere. It presents us Each entry is a double-page spread with danger, determination, a brief biography and a certain pair 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>striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostRooney_Dino|title=The School of MusicDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=34

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I have was a love/hate relationship with musicchild. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only This one comes with my handssounds! Taking us layer by layer, never with my feet at the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative through various different ages of my singingdinosaurs, for want we meet a variety of a better wordcreatures, and one some of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when whom are very familiar but some I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus withd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, dammit. But heylayer by layer, showing you what's the use of my own example being so off-puttingvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, when there is a world of pleasurewith background noises, mental roars and physical exercise and fun squawks to be had from being active in music? This accompany them! The book, dressed as the lesson programme of creates a full-ondinosaur experience, proper musical collegerather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, is only designed to encourage placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and informgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>