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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Gavin Rutherford 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.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and Tanya Batrakto the benefit of them all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Rainforest MasksHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= 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 each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and 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 why people must pay attention to Press Out , and Makecare for, both.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have been having Before people came and joined the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know animals, there was only the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young child's face sky and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and it's in 3Dthe sky began to tal to each other. All First, the creatures are, as you would expectearth created bodies. And then, from the rainforest regions of sky breathed life into them. These were the worldfirst 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 there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsespecially how they came to be. You get a green iguanaWhen they grew old and died, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-their bodies returned to the earth and-yellow macaw their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the emerald tree boasky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. Never heard of some of them? WellAnd that is why people must pay attention to, don't worry: the book is gently educationaland care for, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creatureboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn CrambStephanie Zabriskie|title=National TrustHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Complete Night Explorer's KitFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45

|summary=There ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a misfortune to children’s nonfiction book drawn from the modern worldoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a ladTanzania. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for ' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to hardly see any be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the stars intimate and to get to learn the constellationssymbiotic connection its people, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting'especially its women, it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying one. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back garden, their cows and too many don't even get that chance, for want of possession of onethe natural world. Yes, if this book is only read once in The oral tradition retelling the daytime and never referred to againmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shamedoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1839948493|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I am 'm a man who likes his creature comfortssucker for dogs. Always have beenIn nearly eight decades, always will – and creature comforts donI've never met one I didn't involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, to watch creatures, as far as trust and I'm concernedve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. LuckilySo, however, many people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and any book aboutdogs, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at them, I'm going to sit down and spending time out of doors for the hell of itdevour. This book is the first stage Then I'm going to that, go back and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doorit properly. And even if so itwas with 's your 'A World of Dogs'only', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>s learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1529507987|title=The Story of the CarRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me want to have be cheered up. After a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelveshard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Most of course I lost interest You see, the value is in with maturitywhat these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. But No expense appears to be spared and the young child these days won't be experts spend as much different, for good or bad, time and so they will like effort as not want a book about broom-brooms for is required to achieve the shelfdesired result. And this Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden024162343X|title=In Focus: CitiesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here wereligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god're restricted to just ten. WhyWhere was the proof? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million peopleIn history lessons, of all thingsit was probably worse still. YesNot too long after the end of WWII, weI didn're talking cities, and while this book tries t so much want to follow learn about the previous – different artist every pageBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – but we are definitely didn't dwell on those) in new territory. Wewhat came to be called 're seeking the trivial, colonies' as want to dispute what right the geographical and army had to be there in the culturalfirst place. Looking back, all so I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the inquisitive young student can find out the variety maturity to be had in approach 'the worldproblem's metropolisespolitely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= Children I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the survival mode there is also the Creative side. This book explores what you can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenStolen History'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 for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Book of BirdsFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught 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 bird-watching habitneighbours, even with being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the opportunity of growing up lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the edge Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a village national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the middle round-ups of nowhereJews. It was These in their turn leave the familyyounger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, toowhile Fritz and his father are, but I resigned myself unknown initially to never seeing much that was spectaculareach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingthe stone quarry there. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown And us wondering how the diversity of titular event for the bird world in snippets adult variant of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen1913750353|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids Britannica's Word of all agesthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating= 35|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to coding aimed at ages 10 Stretch Your Cranium and upwardsTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. This book is filled It starts on January 1st with enthusiasm''Razzmatazz'', informationtells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), fun and… unfortunately gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it just falls flat of its goalsshould be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford0711266204|title=The Movie Making BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with I have recently discovered a camcorder that would fit great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a mini-tape that you recorded ontodaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. This mini-tape would then slip into I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a DVD player, good munch but with awful fidelity)I wish I was more knowledgeable. In allIt would have been wonderful if, making as a film was a big old faffchild, but trying I'd had access to do anything fancy was almost impossiblea book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. There So – what is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devices, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any good. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood0192779230|title=Doodle DogsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Best in ShowThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary='Germs'Doodle Dogs'' introduces seems to have become a wide variety of artistic styles through catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the idea of first book in what looks to be a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogsvery promising new series, all OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of which germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be created very easily, confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you 'll soon find that doodling a dog can be a lot more detailedfamiliar with bacteria, fungi, protists and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith1800464495|title=Think and Make Like an Artist100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=Having been banned from ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarkswomb, 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 am not sure didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I ever want to think or make like an artist. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artparents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I see don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a rain dirty valley, but the artists sells you Brigadoonsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial. }} A lot {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant to represent; even Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been swayed on occasion once completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I 've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been informedlauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. ThereforeBeing up early, working late has been praised and the ability to teach art appreciation survive on little sleep has almost become something to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=One The title and format of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how this book might lead you to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with think that it''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as s either about responsibility - or it says in the dictionary''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference a basic 1-2-3 book for children are now much more invitingthose just starting out on the numbers journey. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but It isn't: it's worth studying the ''How a hymn of praise tomaths... It'' section, not least because similar systems are used s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in other reference bookseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Dorling KindersleyRosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the 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 bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=First Science EncyclopediaHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more 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

|summary=I wasn't introduced What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'science' until I was eleven and went on ve managed to senior school: I wasnget hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't alone in this, but matter: we all need it really was too lateto some extent. ThankfullyYou might want to go into business, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsbe a clever shopper, atoms and molecules and a saver (you might even outer space from a very young age. Whatbecome an ''investor''s needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects ) and give a good grounding. It needs to there might be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a childyou really, 's bookshelf. The 'really'First Science Encyclopedia'want to buy. There' would s also the possibility of using to do both wellgood in the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The British MuseumApollo 13 Mission|titleauthor=Origami, Poems David Long and PicturesStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in It's fifty years since the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue Apollo 13 mission was launched from the throne of English footballKennedy Space Centre in Florida, it's common knowledge that red is but the more successful colour to wear. But is story of that flame red? Blood red? The red journey remains one of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one greatest survival stories of their own making? all time. And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour 'Survival in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to footballSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission's history it's enough to make is a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt SewellKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Big Bird SpotNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5

|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 Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the puffins who1889 World'd arrived on the cliffs s Fair in Paris encompassed the last few days. Finally, I found onebest, after visually sorting through all the other birds on worst and the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun beautiful from many countries and very rewardingcultures. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for childrenFrench Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, ''The Big Bird Spot''put on art shows, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptondance performances, but this time you're going food festivals and concerts to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst stun the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillssenses. OhAnd towering above it all, the most popular and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going the most hated monument to have to find them in every pictureFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice Bowsher1848576536|title=Lift-Humanatomy: How the-Flap Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Colour: OceanJem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=When you think about it''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, itand go inside your insides!'' That's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and theywhat ''Humanatomy''re home invites you to nearly half of all speciesdo and honestly, apart from humans. We I don't know see how you could resist. This informative book provides a lot wonderful primer about the oceans either human body to curious children- less than 5% of from the skeletal system to the area has been exploredmuscular system via circulation, but it is an area of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do a little exploration respiration and digestion, right up to colour their own pictures. The flaps are a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea DNA that makes who we see little more than the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuLangford_Emily|title=100 Steps for ScienceEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=3.54

|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in the Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objectsEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Point at Obviously, you can count anything and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied it's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. Trying to fit She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedthe list were even numbers, but if the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you are going to try and do counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, this; confused me a little bit at least make first as they're a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleBuckingham_Dawn|title=Spot The Little Book of the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=YouWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'll like as not have seen a children's book before and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundred, and that's not '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 problemcold and rather wet February morning. Yes, in personifying I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be therebirds and listening to their song. Your task, should you choose to accept Then - just because I could - I went back and did it, is to try all again and find them all. And the learning is also here, it was just as we get text to tell us what good the goofs were designed to show ussecond time around. Make no mistakeSo, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresPankhurst_Women|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 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>}}{{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having 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 could. But then, I didn't have the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barr, Steve Williams and Amy Husband|title=The Story of SpaceKate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=I have no actual idea how I first got an interest in spaceA lot of history is about men. Perhaps it's there because I'm so old to almost coincide with the last Apollo astronauts being on the moon (Kings and generals and inventors and that's pretty oldpoliticians. Sometimes, it's been so long) and it kind of rubbed off on me. Perhaps feels almost as though there were no women in fact history at all , let alone ones young children are interested in space anywaygirls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, and donthis isn't need any impetus true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or reason to look up in wondercreated something never seen before. But if they doSo here, in this is wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the newest way stories of some of nudging the newer child towards a keenness for all things celestial. And it's a pretty good way indeedthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807488</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Emily SuttonIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Lots – The Diversity of Life on EarthWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary= How many different kinds ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of living things are there on Earth? Lots…thatwomen's how manysport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Children will learn lots Think of a sport and lots from a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this wonderful booksomewhere. I learned lots from it too. There are 100,000 different kinds of mushrooms. Who knew? Well I certainly didn't. This Each entry is one of those special books a double-page spread with cross-over appeal. Tiny children will adore the illustrations, slightly older ones will learn fascinating facts a brief biography and readers of any age will be moved by the message that we need to take better care of our beautiful environmenta striking portrait. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki LjungRooney_Dino|title=Build a ... ButterflyDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always was a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flowerchild. Kiki Ljung has given This one comes with sounds! Taking us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model layer by layer, through various different ages of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age groupdinosaurs, but I have to confess that I had we meet a great deal variety of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo|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'. Wellcreatures, too often history, the news and even destinies some of whom 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. very familiar but some I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlightbefore! Each scene peels open, powered purely layer by body warmth – which is rich if layer, showing you're old enough to remember what the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-various dinosaurs are getting 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, perhapswith background noises, show me up roars and squawks to be accompany them! The book creates a chauvinist of sortsdinosaur experience, but I think rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it is further evidence that 's very visual, placing the gaze is male' dinosaurs in their habitats and that the media are phallocentric. I hope giving us sounds too that this book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against mespike your imagination. 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>