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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ParkerZabriskie1|title=50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – Belonging and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lotCommunity, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Emily Hawkins and Lucy Letherland|title=Atlas of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldStephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=You might think''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , what with books about dinosaurs being just or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as varied (natural variations of human intelligence and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselvesawareness, each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that there tradition, which was little to say about them that hadn't been said, and few new ways of giving us information about themcarried down through generations by oral retellings. Well, I would put it to you It shows that this a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a novel variant. Over many jumbo spreads, we get a range of people with different dinosaur in a skills and different situation each timepersonalities, whether it be being born, being slain or learning all contributing to fly, a whole that combines them all and to the book gives us benefit of them all the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs lived. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, and what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry BloomB0GFQ81YQK|title=Pirates MagnifiedHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: With a 3x Magnifying GlassFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|summary=It's becoming easier Before people came and easier to spot books for joined the young about pirates – that surely is about animals, there was only the only career from sky and the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about itearth. It must be a combination of Everything was quiet until the earth and the derring-dosky began to tal to each other. First, the illegalityearth 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 of course the fancy dress learned and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one country's attacks on anotherremembered, and reading about especially how treasures, slaves they came to be. When they grew old and other resources changed hands. This volume, howeverdied, tries its best their bodies returned to stand out, the earth and has adopted their life returned to the equally prevalent concept of getting sky. And that is why the reader to pore over large dioramas to seek earth and the small detail hidden in the imagessky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. For onceAnd that is why people must pay attention to, thoughand care for, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind itboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline AllistonB0GHPMNF6P|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary=''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineers'' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion How the Sky and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on Earth Made People: From the fun aspect, with many Oral Stories of the projects involving toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden|title=We Travel So FarStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=The lead singer of Foreigner said ''I've travelled so far 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 change this lonely lifeeach other.'' WellFirst, he's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creaturesthe earth created bodies. And then, who probably wouldn't call their the sky breathed life lonelyinto 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 remembered, eitherespecially how they came to be. Masses of animals gather, herd, school, When they grew old and fly in unisondied, their bodies returned to the earth and all make their migration life returned to change their livesthe sky. Some hide from And that is why the danger of winter storms, many seek earth and the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano to lay eggs in the one place sky are both revered. Only together can they know will keep them warmcreate human beings. It might seem And that is why people must pay attention to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly worksand care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKStephanie Zabriskie|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need How Maasai Women Spoke to Know About EverythingCows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=3.5

|summary=Having ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the Internet oral traditions of Maasai elders in the home for Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a child cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to learn from is all well be so. Cattle are status and good, wealth in Maasai culture but it wonthis doesn't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is no use for tell the young mind to be exposed to every bit whole story of knowledge we may have amassed. No, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate the important bits, letting you learn just enough, intimate and the key things you do need to know, all from one place. This book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaedia, that has to be said, but symbiotic connection its large format puts it on the shelf next to thempeople, and especially its colourful women, have with their cows and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, at least of for the modern kindnatural world. What it has decided to do is to structure The oral tradition retelling the world into certain subjectsmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amasseddoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1839948493|title=My Encyclopedia A World of Very Important AnimalsDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5

|summary=The animal kingdom is In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a diverse sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met oneI didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, full of creatures that do all sorts of thingsany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need Then I'm going to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practicego back and read it properly. For budding vetAnd so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely tomy four-be animals are a constant source of fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give themlegged friends. It is not practical to visit Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the zoo every day, but getting accidental owner of an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia isAmerican Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1529507987|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really I love ''doThe Repair Shop'' books, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts s my go- it taught me how to find out information for myself and how programme when I want to use an indexbe cheered up. It opened my eyes to subjects IAfter a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already lovedre worth. In format You see, the value is in size what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and content it was very similar the memories they hold. No expense appears to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' be spared and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it the experts spend as much time and begging just effort as is required to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedachieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano024162343X|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a nipper'god'. Since then Where was the science regarding them has evolved leaps and boundsproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. WeNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn've got in touch with them perhaps being featheredt so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, and have assumed colours and noises they made – but we can even extrapolate from their remains didn't dwell on those) in what their eyesight, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need came to be on board with called 'the job of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them colonies' as want to a world that never seems dispute what right the army had to get enough of be there in the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownfirst place. As you're Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the kind of person maturity to ask questions, you may well ask approach 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?problem' politely. I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionswish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander Jeremy Dronfield and Andres LozanoDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions Fritz and 70 Lift-flaps!Kurt|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're constantly being asked start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to save something. Save do – kicking things around the hedgerowsempty market place, save helping the elephantneighbours, save our seasbeing dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. ThereKurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals each Friday night – some of the Sabbath preventing them are larger than the others, for using anything nearly as mechanical and more demanding, but they are all worthyworkmanlike as a light switch. But seeing as it's (a) this is the time just before the largest land feature we need Austrian leader is going to cave to save, and (b) itHitler's the most worthwhile to savewill, why not just go for the jugular – and try and save instead of having a national vote to keep the Amazonian rainforest? Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our foodKristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, spices and medicines – and when as did a hedgerow near you have almost fifty different species all the round-ups of ant on a singular tree? Jews. The first step These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to saving anything is hear word of an evacuation to understand itBritain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to let us appreciate iteach other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhile.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1913750353|title=Iggy PeckBritannica's Big Project Book for Amazing ArchitectsWord of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45

|summary=Out ''Britannica's Word of all the things I wanted to be as a child, an architect was not one of them. Which is a shame, perhaps – I might have had Day'' has a few Prince Charlessub-friendly ideas under my belt, title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and even if I hadnTickle Your Humerus't exactly progressed at that I might have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding 'build-a-this-or-which probably tells you all that' exercises you are sometimes forced need to undergo as an adultknow about this brilliant book. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to draw buildingspronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), conceptualise towns gives you a definition and create model structures of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no ability. But for the likes of Iggy Peck, then includes the whole idea is never word in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and how to improve on the ones he knowsfrequently amusing illustration too. And so, for I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the duration of your engagement with these pages, will you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun0711266204|title=My First Wild Activity BookThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=You I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit down together as and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a family and ask your child what they would like to read from your bulging bookcasedaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Will they choose I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the timeless classic that you yourself read as feeders for a child? Perhaps they will pluck quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nopegood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Neither of these. All you will hear is It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''Stickers!The Secret Life of Birds'' . Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with you, so best make So – what is it a worthwhile sticker activity book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki0192779230|title= Scientist AcademyVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Are You Ready For the Challenge?The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Kids seem 'Germs' seems to have an innate curiosity about become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world around themof germs. They are constantly asking ''How?'' We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and ''Why?'' Curious kids what they thought caused them and budding scientists are going to love how the new thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist'Scientist Academywhich explains some of the trickiest concepts and you'' book by Ivy Kidsll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, which is filled with practical experiments protists and viruses – and fun activities with an educational twisthow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Rebecca JonesEmma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Colouring Book Awesome Power of Cards and EnvelopesSleep: Unicorns and RainbowsHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I've a problem doubt anyone would argue with many colouring books that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for children: some initial effort goes into the colouring, but the chances are that little teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be kept on a long-term basis doing) and it's not particularly satisfyingothers will worry unnecessarily. How much better would it be if Most people, from children to adults will have the colouring produced something which could be sent odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to someone else, who would appreciate that make itworse. And there's unique and also the fact that effort for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and care sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has gone into been praised and the card? How much better ability to give a child survive on little sleep has almost become something like ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp1849767343|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred The title and Osbert. They're not only the kind format of this book might lead you to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorerthink that it's club they belong to, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim to either about responsibility - or it alone, and devil take 's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the other onenumbers journey. What they donIt isn't know is that the drama that ensues when they: it're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lion, crashing s a hot air balloon one hymn of them just so happened praise to have in his pocket… maths. This, then, It's about why maths is a fun so wonderful and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>how you meet it in everyday life.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman1849767009|title=Hidden World: ForestIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=Sometimes, less 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 more. But a wood doesnOK and the ones who ''know''t understand that, does it – 's shameful will avoid it just stretches on like they avoid the hot-and on, expanding outwards -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and outwards, small and upwards of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and upwards – itmarkings. They's quite a galling thing for a young person to understandre fine. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get a grip on the life in the forest In fact, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>'re wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari1776572858|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistoryHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=While itIt's always useful for 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 child to have access to an atlasbook about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, so they know where they are in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and what there is in every other location, I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it's equally important that they know 'wasn'whent something which nice people talked about'' they are, and what has happened at any other place in time. That's the ethos behind this I ''Time Atlasknew'', which only has a few spreadsmore, but takes us right back to prehistory, through the birth of civilisation, and up to today – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen in the futurewas little ''wiser''. It isThankfully, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland1526362759|title=Festivals and CelebrationsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=Every day is What a feast dayrelief! A book about money, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to have about three people attributed acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. But thatYour reasons for wanting money don's just one religiont matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, one way of thinkingbe a clever shopper, one culture – the world is host to a whole lot moresaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, and in every corner they have their own way of celebrating''really'' want to buy. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide There's also the visiting spirits possibility of the deceased back using to their post-life homes; some rejoice do good in the return of spring, 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 be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma Trithart178112938X|title=Myths Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and LegendsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realm, when you think about it – not quite legend, and not just It's fifty years since the religions of Apollo 13 mission was launched from the dead civilisationsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but something like a mixture the story of the two. Certainly some that journey remains one of the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe they were true, even if they didn't fit into any pattern greatest survival stories of organised worshipall time. But seeing as it is the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologies, it's vital for the young to have some grounding 'Survival in the subject, and this book Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is pretty good at providing sucha brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie GuerriveKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue MissionNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=This is a horrific world. Monsters leer over all Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the mountain tops, there1889 World's a giant octopus Fair in one building and a green giant's arms coming through Paris encompassed the windows of anotherbest, the worst and everywhere you look someone has lost something. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand to helpbeautiful from many countries and cultures. YesThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly put on the controls of his flying machineart shows, dance performances, he is able food festivals and concerts to visit stun the senses. And towering above it all eleven zones, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and find daring – the five things requested of him in eachEiffel Tower. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik1848576536|title= Girling UpHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers''Get under your own skin, this book focuses on growing up as a girlpick your brains, or and go inside your insides!'' That's what 'Girling up'Humanatomy'' if invites you willto do and honestly, and what it means I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to transition curious children- from school girl the skeletal system to grown the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up, via to the DNA that hideous detour of teenage yearsmakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako ClulowLangford_Emily|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantEmily found words ''useful'', eh? but counting was what she loved best. WellObviously, personally, Iyou can count anything and there've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animals 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 gentle giants of Africa and Indialist were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact this list of odd numbers which I discovered was that they live occurred when you counted in herds headed by their threes which she called ''grandmothersthreeven''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the oldest female elephant is the one in charge odd numbers but sound as she knows where though they ought to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about people tooit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter CottrillBuckingham_Dawn|title= Terrible True Tales from The Little Book of the Tower of LondonDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The history Little Book of the infamous Tower Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of London is full the sounds of gore a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and deathrather wet February morning. Its rich history dates back to I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the eleventh century birds and since then it has played host listening to many famous figures, many of them illtheir song. Then - just because I could -fated prisoners. The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this time I went back and did 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, again and after centuries of watching over it was just as good the Tower they have their own version of history to tellsecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HuttonPankhurst_Women|title=Cool PhysicsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If you aren't entirely sure A lot of history is about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, don't worry – it was only feels almost as though there were no women in 1678 that it happenedhistory at all, so you're not too far behind in physicslet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Brownian motionOf course, this isn't true and the gravitational constant being measured both date from there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before the Victorian era. So here, and all of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in are the world stories of some of physics is very much neededthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave ParkerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Prehistoric TimesWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=2.5

|summary=With the ability ''Women in Sport'' is coming to read us just before the news on our phones or watch Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the 24 hour news channelsdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, the days of the newspaper appear to be coming to an end. You could say that they are going to be extinctriding, skating, and much like the dinosaursmore. So, if newspapers are Think of a thing of the past sport and so are dinosaurs, a pioneering woman succeeding at it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out is probably in this was the case book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and viewsa striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas FlinthamRooney_Dino|title=Around the World Colouring BookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

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