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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zabriskie1|title=Andrea Beaty A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and David RobertsCommunity, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|titleauthor=Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing ArchitectsStephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=Out of all ''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the things I wanted world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as a childnatural variations of human intelligence and awareness, an architect was not one of themeach holding value within the community. Which '' This lovely story is a shamesynthesis of that tradition, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my belt, and even if I hadn't exactly progressed at which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that I might have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding 'build-a-this-community or-that' exercises you are sometimes forced to undergo as an adult. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability to draw buildings, conceptualise towns and create model structures society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no ability. But for the likes human beings but by a range of Iggy Peckpeople with different skills and different personalities, the all contributing to a whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings that combines them all and how to improve on the ones he knows. And so, for the duration benefit of your engagement with these pages, will youthem all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=Isabel Otter How the Sky and Maxime Lebrunthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=My First Wild Activity BookStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=You sit down together as a family Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and ask your child what remembered, especially how they would like came to read from your bulging bookcasebe. Will When they choose grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the timeless classic sky. And that you yourself read as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring is why the earth and storyline based around pants? Nopethe sky are both revered. Neither of theseOnly together can they create human beings. All you will hear And that is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with youwhy people must pay attention to, and care for, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity bookboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi KimpimakiB0GHPMNF6P|title= Scientist AcademyHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Are You Ready For From the Challenge?Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Kids seem 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 an innate curiosity about tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the world around sky breathed life into them. They are constantly asking ''How?'' These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and ''Why?'' Curious kids their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and budding scientists the sky are going both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to love the new ''Scientist Academy'' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twistcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca JonesStephanie Zabriskie|title=The Colouring Book How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsMaasai Elders

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I've 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into children’s nonfiction book drawn from the colouringoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, but the chances Tanzania.'' The Maasai are that little will be kept on a longcattle-term basis herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and itwealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if t tell the whole story of the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone elseintimate and symbiotic connection its people, who would appreciate that it's unique and that effort especially its women, have with their cows and care has gone into for the card? How much better to give a child something like ''natural world. The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp1839948493|title=Wilfred A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseLuisa Uribe|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and OsbertIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. TheyIn nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn're not only the kind to completely flout the rules t trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the natural history explorer's club they belong tosame about human beings. So, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherany book about dogs, they are the kind I'm going to fight tooth sit down and claw to be the first to lay claim devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it alone, and devil take the other oneproperly. What they donAnd so it was with 't know is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end A World of peril – nearly drowningDogs'', almost being eaten by a lion, crashing a hot air balloon one of them just so happened with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to have in his pocket… my four-legged friends. This, then, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but thatAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's only the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman1529507987|title=Hidden World: ForestThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=While itI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's always useful for a child my go-to have access programme when I want to an atlasbe cheered up. After a hard day, so they know where they are and what there is in every other location, it's equally important that nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they know ''when'' they are, and what has happened at any other place in timere worth. That's You see, the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas'', which only has a few spreads, but takes us right back value is in what these possessions are worth to prehistory, through the birth of civilisation, people who own them and up the memories they hold. No expense appears to today – be spared and the experts spend as well much time and effort as asking a few questions of what might happen in is required to achieve the futuredesired result. It Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland024162343X|title=Festivals and CelebrationsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Every day is a feast day, if you follow I was the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three bad company other people attributed to itgot into at school. But thatI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god's just one religion. Where was the proof? In history lessons, one way it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of thinkingWWII, one culture – I didn't so much want to learn about the world is host to a whole lot moreBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, and but we didn't dwell on those) in every corner they have their own way of celebrating. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat what came to guide be called 'the visiting spirits of colonies' as want to dispute what right the deceased back army had to their post-life homes; some rejoice be there in the return of springfirst place. Looking back, or I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the bounties of maturity to approach 'the summerproblem's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each otherpolitely. 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 beI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra Lawrence Jeremy Dronfield and Emma TrithartDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Myths Fritz and LegendsKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmWe 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 you think about it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – not quite legend, the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and not workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the religions Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the dead civilisationsNazis out, but something like a mixture invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of the twoJews. Certainly some 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 entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King ArthurUS, while Fritz and his father are, Robin Hood – but we also seemed unknown initially to believe they were trueeach other, even if they didn't fit into any pattern of organised worshippacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. But seeing as it is And us wondering how the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologies, it's vital titular event for the young to have some grounding in the subject, and adult variant of all this book is pretty good at providing such.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1913750353|title=Dinosaur DetectiveBritannica's Search-Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and-Find Rescue MissionSue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=This is a horrific world. Monsters leer over all ''Britannica's Word of the mountain tops, thereDay''s has a giant octopus in one building sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and a green giantTickle Your Humerus''s arms coming through the windows of another, and everywhere which probably tells you all that you look someone has lost something. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand need to helpknow about this brilliant book. Yes, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly It starts on the controls of his flying machineJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', he is able tells you how to visit all eleven zonespronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and find then includes the five things requested of him word in eacha sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik0711266204|title= Girling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour The Secret Life of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Catherine Barr Moira Butterfield and Hanako Clulow|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animalestablished which species feed from the ground, which pop to the gentle giants feeders for a quick snatch of Africa some food and India, who settles in for a good munch but it I wish I was good to find out more about themknowledgeable. Perhaps the most surprising fact which It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their 'd had access to a book such as ''grandmothersThe Secret Life of Birds''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant So – what is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill0192779230|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The history of the Tower is told within this book'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>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Hutton|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 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, itbe a clever shopper, a 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Gavin Rutherford David Long and Tanya BatrakStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara 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 Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From MojangWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isn't 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop before the Skeletons from spawning near your respawn pointWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Alongside It celebrates a century and a half of the survival mode there development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is also the Creative side. This probably in this book explores what you can do when you aren't having to make everything from scratchsomewhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= Children's NonEach entry is a double-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started page spread with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>a brief biography and a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo ValerioRooney_Dino|title=My Book of BirdsDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I never really caught the bird-watching habitwas a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a village in the middle variety of nowhere. It was in the family, toocreatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I resigned myself 'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to never seeing much that was spectacular, with background noises, roars and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen squawks to accompany them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this ! The book as creates a youngsterdinosaur experience, who knows – I may have come out of rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it differently's very visual, having been shown the diversity of placing the bird world dinosaurs in snippets of text, their habitats and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.