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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zabriskie1|title=Laura Knowles A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Chris MaddenCommunity, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|titleauthor=We Travel So FarStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer of Foreigner said ''I've travelled so far to change this lonely life.'' WellAcross many African and Indigenous systems, he's gone nowhere differences in comparison to many of these creatureshow children learn, who probably wouldn't call their life lonelysense , eitheror process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. Masses They were understood as natural variations of animals gather, herd, school, human intelligence and fly in unisonawareness, and all make their migration to change their liveseach holding value within the community. Some hide from the danger '' This lovely story is a synthesis of winter stormsthat tradition, many seek the food they need before hibernation which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or their first meals after breeding, some just trot society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a volcano range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to lay eggs in the one place they know will keep a whole that combines them warm. It might seem all and to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect the benefit of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly worksthem all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB0GFQ81YQK|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=34.5

|summary=Having Before people came and joined the Internet in animals, there was only the home for a child to learn from is all well sky and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaediathe earth. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is no use for Everything was quiet until the earth and the young mind sky began to be exposed tal to every bit of knowledge we may have amassedeach other. NoFirst, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate the important bits, letting you learn just enoughearth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and the key things you do need they belonged to know, all from one placeboth earth and sky. This book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaediaAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, that has especially how they came to be said. When they grew old and died, but its large format puts it on their bodies returned to the shelf next earth and their life returned to them, and its colourful the sky. And that is why the earth and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, at least of the modern kindsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. What it has decided to do And that is why people must pay attention to structure the world into certain subjects, and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amassedcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKB0GHPMNF6P|title=My Encyclopedia How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Very Important AnimalsMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=The animal kingdom is a diverse oneBefore 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, full of creatures that do all sorts of thingsthe sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. The number of animals out there is And so vast that even vets need 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 do a quick google when something strange appears in the earth and their practicelife returned to the sky. For budding vet-to-be animals And that is why the earth and the sky are a constant source of fascination and both revered. Only together can they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give themcreate human beings. It And that is not practical why people must pay attention to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia iscare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKStephanie Zabriskie|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'do'' books, but it was  The Maasai are a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts cattle- it taught me how to find out information for myself herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to use an indexbe so. It opened my eyes to subjects ICattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn'd never considered t tell the whole story of the intimate and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In formatsymbiotic connection its people, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' especially its women, have with their cows and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedfor the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1839948493|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and 70 Lift-flaps!Luisa Uribe

|summary=Out In the interests of all the things full disclosure, I must tell you that I wanted to be as 'm a child, an architect was not one of themsucker for dogs. Which is a shameIn nearly eight decades, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my belt, and even if 've never met one I hadndidn't exactly progressed at that trust and I might have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding 'build-a-this-or-that' exercises you are sometimes forced to undergo as an adultve loved most of them. I never knew wish I would ever hold felt the same about human beings. So, any importance in my ability book about dogs, I'm going to draw buildings, conceptualise towns sit down and create model structures of my own creations – partly because devour. Then I knew I had no ability'm going to go back and read it properly. But for the likes And so it was with ''A World of Iggy PeckDogs'', the whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings and how with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to improve on the ones he knowsmy four-legged friends. And so, for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the duration accidental owner of your engagement with these pages, will youan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun1529507987|title=My First Wild Activity The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=You sit down together as I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a family and ask your child hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they would like 're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to read from your bulging bookcasethe people who own them and the memories they hold. Will they choose No expense appears to be spared and the timeless classic that you yourself read experts spend as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring much time and storyline based around pants? Nopeeffort as is required to achieve the desired result. Neither of these. All you will hear Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they''Stickers!'' re doing. Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with you, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki024162343X|title= Scientist Academy: 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 and budding scientists are going to love the new ''Scientist Academy'' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStolen History|author=Rebecca Jones|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsSathnam Sanghera

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Iwas the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 've a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into god'. Where was the colouringproof? In history lessons, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis and it's not particularly satisfyingwas probably worse still. How Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much better would it want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be if called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the colouring produced something which could army had to be sent to someone elsethere in the first place. Looking back, who would appreciate I still believe I was right - but I regret that itI lacked the maturity to approach 's unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? problem' politely. How much better to give a child something like I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsStolen History'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephan LompJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Wilfred Fritz and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseKurt

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Meet Wilfred We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and Osbert. They're not only the kind their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to completely flout do – kicking things around the rules of empty market place, helping the natural history explorer's club they belong toneighbours, but being dutiful when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are it comes to the kind to fight tooth synagogue choir and claw at a vocational school. Kurt has to be make sure the first to lay claim to it alone, lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and devil take the other oneworkmanlike as a light switch. What they don't know But this is that the drama that ensues when theytime just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler're tailing this particular specimen s will involve no end , and instead of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by having a lionnational vote to keep the Nazis out, crashing a hot air balloon one of invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just so happened as much as in Germany, as did all the round-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 have in Britain or the US, while Fritz and his pocket… Thisfather are, thenunknown initially to each other, is a fun packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman1913750353|title=Hidden World: ForestBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimes, less is more. But ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a wood doesnsub-title: ''t understand 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that, does it – it just stretches on and you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts onJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – tells you how to pronounce it(''raz-muh-TAZ's quite '), gives you a galling thing for definition and then includes the word in a young person to understandsentence so that you know how it should be used. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for word which uses the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari0711266204|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline The Secret Life of HistoryBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=While it's always useful for I have recently discovered a child to have access to an atlas, so they know where they are great pleasure: I sit and what there is in every other location, it's equally important that they know ''when'' they are, and what has happened at any other place in timewatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. ThatI's ve established which species feed from the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''ground, which only has pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a few spreads, good munch but takes us right back to prehistoryI wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, through the birth of civilisationas a child, and up I'd had access to today – a book such as well as asking a few questions ''The Secret Life of what might happen in the futureBirds''. It So – what is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland0192779230|title=Festivals and CelebrationsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=Every day is 'Germs' seems to have become a feast day, if you follow catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day potential to have about three people attributed to itmake you ill. But that's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – In the world is host first book in what looks to be a whole lot morevery promising new series, OUP and in every corner they Isabel Thomas have their own way provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of celebratinggerms. Some poignantly light small fires We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and set what they thought caused them afloat to guide and how the visiting spirits of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice in the return of spring, or the bounties of the summer's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water thinking has developed over each othertime. But the world has The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a ritual calendar scientist' which explains some of events such as thesethe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and this is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can bewe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma Trithart1800464495|title=Myths and Legends100 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=Mythology ''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 peculiar realmstrong 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 you they start school. But do we think the same way about it – not quite legendmaths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and not it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just the religions as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of the dead civilisations, but something like Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a mixture strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of the twoour routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Certainly some of the entries in Some teens will dismiss this pleasant little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – but we also seemed as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to believe they were true, even if they didn't fit into any pattern of organised worshipbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. But seeing as it is the gospel truth that Most people lived by these mythologies, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make itworse. And there's vital also the fact that for the young far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to have some grounding in the subjectseem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and this book is pretty good at providing suchthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1849767343|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue MissionCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=This is The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a horrific worldbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Monsters leer over all the mountain tops, thereIt isn't: it's a giant octopus in one building and a green giant's arms coming through the windows hymn of another, and everywhere you look someone has lost something. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand praise to helpmaths. Yes, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on the controls of his flying machine, he It's about why maths is able to visit all eleven zones, so wonderful and find the five things requested of him how you meet it in eacheveryday life. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik1849767009|title= Girling UpIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'Girling up'that it' if you s shameful will, avoid it like they avoid the hot-and what -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it means to transition from school girl to grown upinto something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, via that hideous detour of teenage yearsthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Catherine Barr Anna Fiske and Hanako ClulowDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=10 Reasons Dosh: How to Love an ElephantEarn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, eh? Wellwith clear explanations of what it is, personallywhy it matters, Ihow to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've never needed ten managed to get hold of it. Your reasons as theyfor wanting money don've always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Africa and India, but t matter: we all need it was good to find out more about themsome extent. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''grandmothersreally''want to buy. Female elephants and their calves stay together and There's also the oldest female elephant is possibility of using to do good in the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people tooworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill178112938X|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of LondonSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=The history of It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the infamous Tower story of London is full that journey remains one 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 greatest survival stories of them ill-fated prisonersall time. ''Survival in Space: The history of the Tower is told within this bookApollo 13 Mission'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 is a brilliant retelling of history to tellwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah HuttonKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Cool PhysicsNine Ways to Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources9 Ways to Empower Tweens''is a self-help book for tweens, donsetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't worry – it was only 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 1678 that it happenedan increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, so youthe 1889 World're not too far behind s Fair in physics. Brownian motionParis encompassed the best, the worst and the gravitational constant being measured both date beautiful from before the Victorian era, many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all of these three things are their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the introductory timeline in this booksenses. And towering above it all, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in the world of physics is very much neededmost popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker1848576536|title=The Prehistoric TimesHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=2.5

|summary=With the ability ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to read the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channelsdo and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the days of human body to curious children- from the newspaper appear to be coming skeletal system to an end. You could say that they are going to be extinct, much like the dinosaurs. Somuscular system via circulation, if newspapers are a thing of the past respiration and so are dinosaursdigestion, it would make sense right up to the DNA that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and viewsmakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamLangford_Emily|title=Around the World Colouring BookEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Colouring books are a Emily found words ''useful way for children to relax'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, develop manual dexterity you can count anything and explore colourthere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the dash to appeal to list were even numbers, but the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven'and'. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they' re a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to still appeal to be a subset of the youngeven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it. )}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The two are not mutually exclusiveLittle Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! Look for instance I really did mean to just ''glance'' at this colouring book: it's got page upon page 'The Little Book of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with Dawn Chorus'' but the added attraction pull of four pages the sounds of stickersa dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. You'll see grey shapes Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and that's it was just as good the signal to second time around. So, what do you get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonaldPankhurst_Women|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=Oh, to be young A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and innocent, inventors and to be full of questionspoliticians. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me'Sometimes, or 'why is poo brown'it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or 'what makes sweat smell'regard as role models. You donOf course, this isn't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectivelytrue and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, no; it's down to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – it's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (achieved amazing things orshown incredible bravery, let's face itor created something never seen before. So here, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this wonderful picture book could well be from Kate Pankhurst, are the place to turnstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben RaskinIgnotofsky_Sport|title=GrowWomen in Sport: A Family Guide Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Growing Fruit and VegWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''GrowWomen in Sport'', it said, ''A family guide is coming to growing fruit and veg''us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Why did it worry me? Well, it's It celebrates a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers century and MORE!'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and veg, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having half of the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childdevelopment of women's face and you ''see'' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures aresport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterflyswimming, red-eyed tree frogfencing, Brazilian tapirriding, giant otterskating, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boamuch more. Never heard Think of some of them? Well, don't worry: the a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is gently educational, a double-page spread with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creaturebrief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn CrambRooney_Dino|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=There is a misfortune to Lift the modern world, in that we flap books have killed off a common hobby from when progressed somewhat since I was a ladchild. Nowadays light pollution is so awful itThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any d never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the stars and various dinosaurs are getting up to get to learn the constellations, with background noises, roars and while I only went out squawks to go 'meteor hunting'accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying one. Elsewhere very visual, placing 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 dinosaurs in your back garden, their habitats and giving us sounds too many don't even get that chance, for want of possession of one. Yes, if this book is only read once in the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shamespike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>