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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonZabriskie1|title=Cool Physics|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of wavefront sources'', don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motion, and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, Belonging and all of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this bookCommunity, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer Rooted in the world of physics is very much needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIndigenous Wisdom|author=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker|title=The Prehistoric TimesStephanie Zabriskie|rating=2.5

|summary=With the ability to read the news on our phones ''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or watch the 24 hour news channels, the days of process the newspaper appear world were not treated as disorders to be coming to an endcorrected. You could say that they are going to be extinctThey were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, much like each holding value within the dinosaurscommunity. So'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, if newspapers are which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a thing community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of the past human beings but by a range of people with different skills and so are dinosaursdifferent personalities, it would make sense all contributing to a whole that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case combines them all and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on to the hunt for only the best news and viewsbenefit of them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamB0GFQ81YQK|title=Around How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the World Colouring BookOral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for children to relaxBefore people came and joined the animals, develop manual dexterity there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and explore colour, but in the dash sky began to appeal tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the child first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so many miss the opportunity people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be gently educational ''. When they grew old and'' died, their bodies returned to still appeal the earth and their life returned to the youngsky. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set And that is why the scene) with earth and the added attraction of four pages of stickerssky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. You'll see grey shapes - and And that's the signal is why people must pay attention to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>, and care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=David Roberts How the Sky and Alan MacDonaldthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=OhBefore people came and joined the animals, to be young there was only the sky and innocent, the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to be full of questionstal to each other. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me'First, or 'why is poo brown'the earth created bodies. And then, or 'what makes sweat smell'the sky breathed life into them. You don't have 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 a kid like Dirty Bertie . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to want the earth and their life returned to know the answers – respectively, no; it's down to dead bacteria; sky. And that is why the earth and it doesn't – it's other bacteria againthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. If you think you have a lad (orAnd that is why people must pay attention to, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuffand care for, this book could well be the place to turnboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben RaskinStephanie Zabriskie|title=GrowHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, it said, Tanzania.''A family guide  The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to growing fruit be so. Cattle are status and vegwealth in Maasai culture but this doesn''. Why did it worry me? Wellt tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, it's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Gamesespecially its women, stickers have with their cows and MORE!'' I for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veghad with their cows, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at alldoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1839948493|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young child's face and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa. Never heard of some A World of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Robyn Swift Carlie Sorosiak and Sara Lynn Cramb|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=There is a misfortune to In the modern worldinterests of full disclosure, in I must tell you that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was 'm a ladsucker for dogs. Nowadays light pollution is so awful itIn nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the stars and to get to learn the constellationssame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting', it's patently obvious that the chance m going to lie sit down and stargaze is a dying onedevour. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle Then I'm going to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – go back and read it properly. And so it begins was with setting up a tent in your back garden, and too many don't even get that chance'A World of Dogs'', for want of possession of onewith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Yes, if this book is only read once in Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack accidental owner of opportunity, it really will be an American Dingo - she's learned quite a crying shamelot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1529507987|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comfortslove ''The Repair Shop''. Always have been, always will – and creature comforts donIt't involve snuggling down in s my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a sleeping baghard day, however comfortable, to watch creatures, as far as Ithere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'm concernedre worth. LuckilyYou see, however, many the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and about, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at who own them, and spending time out of doors for the hell of itmemories they hold. This book is No expense appears to be spared and the first stage to that, experts spend as much time and needs effort as is required to be read in full before you step out your front doorachieve the desired result. And even if Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's your ''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now024162343X|title=The Story of the Car|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me to have a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good or bad, and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for the shelf. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interest.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Libby Walden|title=In Focus: CitiesSathnam 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 maturity to approach 'the variety to be problem' politely. I wish I'd had in the worldSathnam Sanghera's metropolises''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mojang ABJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Minecraft Guide 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 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= 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 for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|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)

|genre=CraftsDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered It''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As s fifty years since the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it Apollo 13 mission was launched from the origami which caught my attentionKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but I was surprised by the extent to which story of that journey remains one of the rest greatest survival stories of the book caught my imaginationall time. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simpleSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest levela brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Beautiful GameNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is all about its coloursa self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. And even if Don't groan! I write 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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the season when one team in blue knocks another team 1889 World's Fair in blue from Paris encompassed the throne of English footballbest, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wearworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the Sun cover banner when senses. And towering above it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colourall, where were the people of colour in football in most popular and the olden days? There are so many darker sides most hated monument to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question French accomplishment and daring – the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>Eiffel Tower.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1848576536|title=The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally'Get under your own skin, I found onepick your brains, 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 Sewellgo inside your insides!'' That's first book for children, what ''The Big Bird SpotHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time I don't see how you're going could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemotsmuscular system via circulation, puffins, herring gulls respiration and razorbills. Ohdigestion, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going right up to have to find them in every picturethe DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherLangford_Emily|title=Lift-the-Flap and Colour: OceanEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=When Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you think about it, itcan count anything and there's quite startling that oceans cover most of our planet and they're home no limit to nearly half of all specieshow far you can go, apart from humansbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. We don't know a lot She knew all about the oceans either - less than 5% odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the area has been exploredlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it is an area was this list of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsherodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called 's 'threeven'Lift-the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity to do . (Actually, this confused me a little exploration and to colour their own pictures. The flaps are bit at first as they're a stroke subset of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more than the movement odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the watereven numbers, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathall worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Lisa Jane Gillespie Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Yukai DuWildlife|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=100 Steps for ScienceFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=Science A lot of history is a far reaching subject that covers about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost everything that exists as though there were no women in the Universe from the smallest specks history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to the largest space bound objectsread about or regard as role models. Point at anything Of course, this isn't true and there will be some sort are plenty of scientist women who has studied it, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. Trying to fit all of So here, in this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lordedwonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, but if you are going to try and do this; at least make it readablethe stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Spot the MistakeWomen in Sport: Lands of Long AgoFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before and harangued it for containing errorsthe Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. This book has at least two hundred, It celebrates a century and thata half of the development of women's not a problem. Yessport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakescovering sports as diverse as swimming, we get ten large dioramas of historical activityfencing, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your taskriding, should you choose to accept itskating, is to try and find them allmuch more. And the learning Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show usprobably in this book somewhere. Make no mistake, this Each entry is a clever double-page spread with a brief biography and absorbing read…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresRooney_Dino|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|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 idiotsLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. For This onecomes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle through various different ages 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. Meanwhiledinosaurs, we meet a young girl is dreaming variety of flightcreatures, as so many some of whom are wont to dovery familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skywardlayer by layer, before his early demise – leaving showing you what the young womanvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, Sophie Blanchardwith background noises, roars and squawks to go accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it alone 's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and become the first female pilotgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>