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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zabriskie1|title=Catherine Barr A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Hanako ClulowCommunity, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|titleauthor=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantStephanie Zabriskie|rating=45
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|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant''Across many African and Indigenous systems, eh? Welldifferences in how children learn, personallysense , I've never needed ten reasons or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as they've always been my favourite large animalnatural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the gentle giants community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of Africa and Indiathat tradition, but it which was good to find out more about themcarried down through generations by oral retellings. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was It shows that they live in herds headed a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants a range of people with different skills and their calves stay together different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herdbenefit of them all. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter CottrillB0GFQ81YQK|title= Terrible True Tales from How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Tower Oral Stories of LondonMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the infamous Tower of London is full of gore sky and deaththe earth. Its rich history dates back to Everything was quiet until the eleventh century earth and since then it has played host the sky began to tal to many famous figureseach other. First, many of them ill-fated prisonersthe earth created bodies. The history of the Tower is told within this book's pagesAnd then, only this time it's told by the ravens that live theresky breathed life into them. They are These were the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due first humans and they belonged to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should 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 removed. 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 after centuries of watching over the Tower sky are both revered. Only together can they have their own version of history create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to tell, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonB0GHPMNF6P|title=Cool PhysicsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''Before people came and joined the animals, don't worry – it there was only in 1678 that it happenedthe 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 you're not too far behind in physicspeople lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. Brownian motionWhen they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the gravitational constant being measured both date from before sky. And that is why the Victorian era, earth and all of these three things the sky are on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that a primer in the world of physics is very much neededwhy people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave ParkerStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Prehistoric TimesHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=2.5
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|summary=With the ability ''How Maasai Women Spoke to read Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channelsoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, the days of the newspaper appear to be coming to an endTanzania. You could say that '' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they are going came to be extinct, much like the dinosaursso. So, if newspapers Cattle are a thing status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the past intimate and so are dinosaurssymbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, it would make sense that dinosaurs had have with their own newspaper? Turns out this was cows and for the case and ''natural world. The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on oral tradition retelling the hunt for only the best news and viewsmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham1839948493|title=Around the A World Colouring Bookof Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=Colouring books are In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a useful way sucker for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colourdogs. In nearly eight decades, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational I've never met one I didn't trust andI've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I' m going to still appeal sit down and devour. Then I'm going to the younggo back and read it properly. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: And so itwas with ''s got page upon page A World of pictures to colour (Dogs'', with just a little narrative ninety-six pages devoted entirely to set the scene) with the added attraction of my four pages of stickers-legged friends. You'll see grey shapes Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - and thatshe's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>learned quite a lot about dogs since then.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald1529507987|title=My Burptastic Body The Repair Shop Craft Book |author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Dirty BertieIllustrator)
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|summary=Oh, I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to be young and innocent, and programme when I want to be full of questionscheered up. Questions like After a hard day, there'is eating my bogies good for mes nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, or 'why the value is poo brown', or 'in what makes sweat smell'these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. You don't have No expense appears to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the answers – respectively, no; it's down to dead bacteria; experts and it doesnthey't – re all brilliant at explaining what itis they's other bacteria againre doing. If you think you have a lad (or, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin024162343X|title=Grow: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|summary=I worried when was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I looked at this book: ''Growdisputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it saidwas probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army'A family guide s successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to growing fruit and vegbe called 'the colonies'as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Why did it worry me? WellLooking back, itI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's 'Games, stickers and MORE!'Stolen History' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need .}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to know about growing fruit the synagogue choir and veg, so wasnat a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours't 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 Austrian leader is going to fall cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a little short? national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Well''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, it doesn't as did all the round- not ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, 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>1782404511</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1913750353|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and MakeSue Macy|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have been having ''Britannica's Word of the most tremendous fun making rainforest masksDay'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you know the effect all that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childneed to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s face and , tells you how to pronounce it (''seeraz-muh-TAZ'' the tiger? Well), this is an even better result gives you a definition and it's then includes the word in 3D. All the creatures are, as a sentence so that you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsknow how it should be used. You also get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-an engaging and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boafrequently amusing illustration too. Never heard of some of them? Well, I don't worry: the book is gently educational, with think I've ever encountered a paragraph telling you just enough about word which uses the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb0711266204|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45
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|summary=There is a misfortune to the modern world, in that we I have killed off recently discovered a common hobby from when great pleasure: I was sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a laddaily basis. Nowadays An hour can pass without my noticing. light pollution is so awful itI's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn ve established which species feed from the constellationsground, and while I only went out which pop to go 'meteor hunting', it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down feeders for a quick snatch of some food and stargaze is who settles in for a dying onegood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to It would have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature been wonderful if, as this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent in your back gardenchild, and too many donI'd had access to a book such as ''t even get that chance, for want The Secret Life of possession of oneBirds''. Yes, if this book So – what is only read once in the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders0192779230|title=National TrustVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Go Wild in the WoodsThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
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|summary=I am 'Germs' seems to have become a man who likes his creature comfortscatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Always have beenIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, always will – OUP and creature comforts don't involve snuggling down in Isabel Thomas have provided a sleeping bag, however comfortable, clear and accessible introduction to watch creatures, as far as I'm concernedthe world of germs. Luckily, however, many We get an informed look at how people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and originally thought about, taking whatever weather diseases and wildlife can throw at what they thought caused them, and spending how the thinking has developed over time out of doors for the hell of it. This book is The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the first stage to that, trickiest concepts and needs to be read in full before you step out your front door. And even if it's your ''only'' stagell soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1800464495|title=The Story 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of the CarYour Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars''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 strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I candon't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of many other subjects us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that inspired the young me to have giving our children a full nonsimilar pre-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelvesschool grounding will be just as beneficial. }} Most {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of course Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I lost interest in doubt anyone would argue with maturitythat statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. But the young child these days wonSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I't ve got loads to be much differentdoing) 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 good or badfar too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and so they will sleep made to seem like as not want a book about broom-brooms for the shelflaziness. And this is pretty much Being up early, working late has been praised and the go-ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to volume for such an interestput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1849767343|title=In Focus: CitiesCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
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|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections title and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first format of this book in this series]] promised 101 closemight lead you to think that it's either about responsibility -ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here weit're restricted to s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just ten. Why? Because starting out on the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people, of all thingsnumbers journey. Yes, weIt isn't: it're talking cities, and while this book tries s a hymn of praise to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territorymaths. WeIt're seeking the trivial, the geographical s about why maths is so wonderful and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety to be had how you meet it in the world's metropoliseseveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB1849767009|title= Minecraft Guide It Isn't Rude to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojangbe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary= Minecraft isnThis could have been one of those books which 't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches preaches to stop the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside choir': the only people who'll buy it are the survival mode there people who know that nudity is also OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the Creative sidehot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. This But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book explores what you can do when you arenabout not wearing clothes. It't having to make everything from scratchs 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB1776572858|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from MojangHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary= Ever wondered It's more than sixty years since I asked how on Earth to babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get started with this 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'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no t be discussed any further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo Valerio1526362759|title=My Book of BirdsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, even with the opportunity clear explanations of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the familywhat it is, toowhy it matters, but I resigned myself how to never seeing much that was spectacular, acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and once what you can do with it when you've seen one blackbird youmanaged to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don've seen them t matter: we all, was my thinkingneed it to some extent. If I'd had this book as You might want to go into business, be a youngsterclever shopper, who knows – I may have come out of it differentlya saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, having been shown ''really'' want to buy. There's also the diversity possibility of using to do good in the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Hansen178112938X|title= Cool CodingSurvival in Space: filled with fantastic facts for kids of all agesThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 35|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwardsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. This book ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat a brilliant retelling of its goalswhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan Farrell Kathleen Boucher and Donna BamfordSara Chadwick|title=The Movie Making BookNine 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
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded onto. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, but with awful fidelity)the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. In The French Republic laid out model villages from alltheir colonies, put on art shows, making a film was a big old faffdance performances, but trying food festivals and concerts to do anything fancy was almost impossiblestun the senses. There is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devicesAnd towering above it all, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodthe most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1848576536|title=Doodle DogsHumanatomy: Best in ShowHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Doodle DogsGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ' introduces a wide variety of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs'Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, all of which can be created very easily, and I don't see how you soon find that doodling could resist. This informative book provides a dog can be a lot more detailedwonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and interestingdigestion, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>right up to the DNA that makes who we are.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor MeredithLangford_Emily|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Having been banned from the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarksEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, I am not sure that I ever want you can count anything and there's no limit to think or make like an artisthow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artShe knew all about odd and even numbers. I see a rain dirty valleyThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the artists sells other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you Brigadooncounted in threes which she called ''threeven''. A lot (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to represent; be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funreally thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKBuckingham_Dawn|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. What a treat! As a child every question which I began with really did mean to just ''how do you spell...?glance'' would be answered with at ''EXACTLY as it says in The Little Book of the dictionaryDawn Chorus''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because pull of the font sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was small far too much to resist on a cold and difficult to readrather wet February morning. Fortunately those times have now changed I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and reference book for children are now much more invitinglistening to their song. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it's worth studying was just as good the ''How tosecond time around...'' section So, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyPankhurst_Women|title=First Science EncyclopediaFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and went on politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to senior school: I wasnread about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't alone in thistrue and there are plenty of women who, but it really was too late. Thankfullythroughout history, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageor created something never seen before. What's needed is a goodSo here, basic reference in this wonderful picture book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in from Kate Pankhurst, are the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British MuseumIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Origami, Poems and PicturesWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|genre=Crafts
|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As 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 was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Gibbons
|title=The Beautiful Game
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red 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 of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Sewell
|title=The Big Bird Spot
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line ''Women in Sport'' is coming to one of us just before the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs Winter Olympics in South Korea in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff faceFebruary 2018. It was great fun celebrates a century and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewella half of the development of women's first book for childrensport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, ''The Big Bird Spot''covering sports as diverse as swimming, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptonfencing, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksriding, in amongst the guillemotsskating, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillsmuch more. Oh, Think of a sport and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher pioneering woman succeeding at it is very careless, because you're going to have to find them probably in every picturethis book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherRooney_Dino|title=Lift-the-Flap Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Colour: OceanSuzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you think about itLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, it's quite startling that oceans cover most through various different ages of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all speciesdinosaurs, apart from humans. We don't know we meet a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% variety of the area has been exploredcreatures, some of whom are very familiar but it is an area some I'd never heard of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity various dinosaurs are getting up to do a little exploration , with background noises, roars and squawks to colour their own pictures. accompany them! The flaps are book creates a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more dinosaur experience, rather than the movement of the water, but how different just being facts about dinosaurs it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai Du|title=100 Steps for Science|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Science is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists very visual, placing the dinosaurs in the Universe from the smallest specks to the largest space bound objects. Point at anything their habitats and there will be some sort of scientist who has studied it. Trying to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lorded, but if you are going to try and do this; at least make it readablegiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>
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