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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi KimpimakiZabriskie1|title= Scientist AcademyA Village Where Many Ways Meet: Are You Ready For the Challenge?|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Kids seem to have an innate curiosity about the world around them. They are constantly asking ''How?'' and ''Why?'' Curious kids A Story of Belonging and budding scientists are going to love the new ''Scientist Academy'' book by Ivy KidsCommunity, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Rebecca Jones|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsStephanie Zabriskie

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I've a problem with 'Across many colouring books for African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children: some initial effort goes into the colouringlearn, sense , but or process the chances are that little will world were not treated as disorders to be kept on a long-term basis corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and itawareness, each holding value within the community.''s not particularly satisfying This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. How much better would it be if the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate It shows that it's unique 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 effort combines them all and care has gone into to the card? How much better to give a child something like ''The Colouring Book benefit of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>them all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan LompB0GFQ81YQK|title=Wilfred How the Sky and Olbert’s Totally Wild Chasethe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and Osbertthe earth. They're not only Everything was quiet until the earth and the kind sky began to tal to completely flout each other. First, the rules of earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the natural history explorer's club first humans and they belong belonged to, but when both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherplanted and learned and remembered, especially how they are the kind came to fight tooth be. When they grew old and claw died, their bodies returned to be the first earth and their life returned to lay claim to it alone, the sky. And that is why the earth and devil take the other onesky are both revered. What Only together can they don't know create human beings. And that is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lion, crashing a hot air balloon one of them just so happened why people must pay attention to have in his pocket… This, then, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kindcare for, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanB0GHPMNF6P|title=Hidden WorldHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: ForestFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=While it's always useful for a child 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 have access tal to an atlaseach 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 know where they are planted and learned and what there is in every other locationremembered, it's equally important that especially how they know ''when'' came to be. When they are, grew old and what has happened at any other place in time. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas'', which only has a few spreadsdied, but takes us right back their bodies returned to prehistory, through the birth of civilisation, earth and up their life returned to today – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen in the futuresky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. It And that iswhy people must pay attention to, after alland care for, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra Lawrence and Jane NewlandStephanie Zabriskie|title=Festivals and CelebrationsHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|summary=Every day ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a feast daychildren’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there Tanzania.'' The Maasai are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three a cattle-herding people attributed and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to itbe so. But thatCattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's just one religion, one way t tell the whole story of thinking, one culture – the world is host to a whole lot moreintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and in every corner they especially its women, have with their own way of celebrating. Some poignantly light small fires cows and set them afloat to guide for the visiting spirits of natural world. The oral tradition retelling the deceased back to many conversations Maasai women have had with their post-life homes; some rejoice in the return of springcows, or the bounties of the summer's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But the world has a ritual calendar of events such as these, and this is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can bedoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma Trithart1839948493|title=Myths A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and LegendsLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realm, when you think about it – not quite legend, and not just In the religions interests of the dead civilisationsfull disclosure, but something like I must tell you that I'm a mixture of the twosucker for dogs. Certainly some of the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King ArthurIn nearly eight decades, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe they were true, even if they I've never met one I didn't fit into any pattern trust and I've loved most of organised worshipthem. But seeing as it is I wish I felt the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologiessame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so itwas with ''A World of Dogs''s vital for the young , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to have some grounding in my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the subject, and this book is pretty good at providing suchaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1529507987|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and-Find Rescue MissionSonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=This is a horrific worldI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Monsters leer over all the mountain topsAfter a hard day, there's a giant octopus nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in one building what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and a green giant's arms coming through the windows of another, and everywhere you look someone has lost somethingmemories they hold. Luckily No expense appears to be spared and the Dinosaur Detective experts spend as much time and effort as is on hand required to helpachieve the desired result. Yes, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on Regular viewers know the controls of his flying machine, he experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is able to visit all eleven zones, and find the five things requested of him in eachthey're doing. But can youhow did they start?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik024162343X|title= Girling UpStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed I was the bad company other people got into at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a girl, or 'god'Girling up. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army' if you wills successes (and occasional failures, and but we didn't dwell on those) in what it means came to be called 'the colonies' as want to transition from school girl dispute what right the army had to grown upbe there in the first place. Looking back, via I still believe I was right - but I regret that hideous detour of teenage yearsI lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine Barr Jeremy Dronfield and Hanako ClulowDavid Ziggy Greene|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantFritz and Kurt

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, Britannica's Word of the gentle giants of Africa Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and India, but it was good Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to find out more know about themthis brilliant book. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''grandmothersraz-muh-TAZ''. Female elephants and their calves stay together ), gives you a definition and then includes the oldest female elephant is the one word in charge as she knows where to find food a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and water - and she knows her herdfrequently amusing illustration too. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill0711266204|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower The Secret Life of LondonBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the infamous Tower vast numbers of London is full of gore and deathbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Its rich history dates back I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the eleventh century feeders for a quick snatch of some food and since then it has played host who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. a book such as ''The history Secret Life of the Tower is told within this bookBirds's pages, only this time it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of watching over the Tower they have their own version of history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hutton0192779230|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 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, and all Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in the world of physics is very much needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker|title=The Prehistoric TimesIsabel Thomas|rating=2.5

|summary=With 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the ability potential to read make you ill. In the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channelsfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the days world of the newspaper appear to be coming to an endgerms. You could say that We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they are going to be extinct, much like thought caused them and how the dinosaursthinking has developed over time. So, if newspapers are The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a thing scientist' which explains some of the past trickiest concepts and so are dinosaursyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case fungi, protists and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news viruses – and viewshow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham1800464495|title=Around the World Colouring Book100 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|rating=4.5

|summary=Colouring books ''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 useful 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 for children to relaxabout maths, develop manual dexterity and explore colourbeyond counting? I don't think we do, but in the dash to appeal to the child part because so many miss the opportunity to 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 similar pre-school grounding will be gently educational ''just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled andfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I' ve got loads to still appeal be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the youngodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: itAnd there's got page upon page also the fact that for far too long, lack of pictures to colour (with just sleep has been lauded as a little narrative virtue and sleep made to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersseem like laziness. You'll see grey shapes - Being up early, working late has been praised and that's the signal ability to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald1849767343|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Oh, to be young and innocent, The title and format of this book might lead you to be full of questionsthink that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Questions like It isn'is eating my bogies good for met: it', or s a hymn of praise to maths. It's about why maths is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell'so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. You don}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't have Rude to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want Nude|author=Rosie 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 answers – respectively, no; ones who ''know'' that it's down shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to dead bacteria; 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 it doesnof every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they't – itre wonderful.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's other bacteria againmore than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. If you think you have 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 lad pamphlet (orwhich delivered nothing more than the basics, letin clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn's face t be discussed any further as it''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, a lass) interested in learning such stuffbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, this book could well be the place to turntimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin1526362759|title=GrowDosh: A Family Guide How to Growing Fruit and VegEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=I worried when I looked at this What a relief! A book: ''Grow''about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it saidmatters, ''A family guide how to growing fruit acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and veg'what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Why did Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it worry me? to some extent. WellYou might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, ita saver (you might even become an ''s a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes investor''Games) and there might be something you really, stickers and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which donreally't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going want to fall a little short? buy. Well, it doesnThere't - not at alls also the possibility of using to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>It'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. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Rutherford Kathleen Boucher and Tanya BatrakSara Chadwick|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks Nine Ways to Press Out and MakeEmpower Tweens

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|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 '9 Ways to Empower Tweens'see'is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don' the tiger? Wellt groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, this but there is a needful space in an even better result increasingly technological world accessible to younger and ityounger 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 in 3D. All the creatures areNon-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, as you would expectcontroversial and vibrant, from the rainforest regions of 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the worldbest, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frogThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, Brazilian tapirput on art shows, giant otterdance performances, blue-and-yellow macaw food festivals and concerts to stun the emerald tree boasenses. Never heard of some of them? WellAnd towering above it all, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the creatureEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb1848576536|title=National TrustHumanatomy: Complete Night Explorer's KitHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=There is a misfortune to the modern world''Get under your own skin, in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellationspick your brains, and while I only went out to go inside your insides!'meteor hunting', it That's patently obvious that the chance what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to lie down do 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 gardenhonestly, and too many I don't even get that chance, for want of possession of onesee how you could resist. Yes, if this This informative book is only read once in provides a wonderful primer about the daytime human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and never referred to againdigestion, due right up to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shamethe DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael SaundersLangford_Emily|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comfortsEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Always have beenObviously, always will – you can count anything and creature comforts donthere't involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, s no limit to watch creatureshow far you can go, as far as I'm concernedbut then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. Luckily, however, many people are of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and She knew all about, taking whatever weather odd and wildlife can throw at them, and spending time out of doors for the hell of iteven numbers. This book is Then she began counting in threes: half of the first stage to thatlist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and needs to be read it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in full before you step out your front door. And even if itthrees which she called 's your 'threeven'only'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' stagere a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us NowBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Story Little Book of the CarDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. What a treat! I canreally did mean to just ''glance'' at 't think 'The Little Book of many other subjects that inspired the young me Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to have resist on a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelvescold and rather wet February morning. Most of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days won't be much different, for good spent an indulgent hour or bad, and so they will like as not want a book reading all about broom-brooms for the shelfbirds and listening to their song. And this is pretty much Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the go-to volume for such an interestsecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenPankhurst_Women|title=In Focus: CitiesFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close UpsA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book it feels almost as though there were no women in this series]] promised 101 close-upshistory at all, cross sections and/let alone ones young girls might like to read about or cutwaysregard as role models. Of course, but here wethis isn're restricted to just ten. Why? Because the subject matters t true and there are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million peopleplenty of women who, throughout history, of all have achieved amazing thingsor shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. YesSo here, we're talking cities, and while in this wonderful picture book tries to follow the previous – different artist every pagefrom Kate Pankhurst, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territory. We're seeking the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety to be had in the world's metropolisesstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Minecraft Guide to CreativeWomen in Sport: 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 Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played 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>}}{{newreviewWin|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from MojangRachel Ignotofsky|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 '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 guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book development of Birds|rating=4|genre=Childrenwomen's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the familyfencing, tooriding, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacularskating, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingmuch more. If I'd had Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book as somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, brief biography and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>a striking portrait.

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

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder that would fit Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a mini-tape that you recorded ontochild. This mini-tape would then slip into one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playervariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but with awful fidelity). In allsome I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, making a film was a big old fafflayer by layer, but trying showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to do anything fancy was almost impossible. There is no longer this excuse for kids today , with their camera enabled smart devicesbackground noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, but rather than just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodbeing facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>