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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jojo SiwaZabriskie1|title= Jojo's Guide to the Sweet Life|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= JoJo with the Bow Bow has written a Book Book! And without meaning to sound like my expectations were low, it was surprisingly good. I say this because we know JoJo as the girl from ''Dance Moms'' with the outspoken mother (well, one A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of the outspoken mothers) who is known for her dancing Belonging and the big bows she wearsCommunity, more than for her brains. And yet this book shows us another side, a side Rooted in which she is an articulate, insightful and intelligent young woman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419728172</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewIndigenous Wisdom|author= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet|title= Stupendous Science|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=Education should be fun. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks. That's the secret behind the experiments in ''Stupendous Science.'' They have the fun element, the 'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the home. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber|title= Optical Illusions|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joey Chou|title=Make and Play: NativityStephanie Zabriskie

|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for ''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to decorate with a box be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of ornaments human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a nativity scene (sometimes quite precioussynthesis of that tradition, so it's Not To Be Played With) which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is set not made up Somewhere Safe. Where's the imaginationfrom interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, the creativity, the sense of pride in that? How much better all contributing to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make whole that combines them all and Play Nativity''to the benefit of them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ParkerB0GFQ81YQK|title=50 Things You Should Know About How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the VikingsOral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the first thing that proved to sky and the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it earth. Everything was that of quiet until the earth and the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army sky began to march from London tal to Yorkshire to kill off one invasioneach other. First, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lotearth created bodies. And then, hence the namesky breathed life into them. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from These were the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpostfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. YesAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they got came to a lot of placesbe. When they grew old and died, from Greenland their bodies returned to Kiev, from Murmansk the earth and their life returned to Turkey the sky. And that is why the earth and the Medsky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagescare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Lucy LetherlandB0GHPMNF6P|title=Atlas How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=You might think, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (Before people came and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselvesjoined the animals, that there was little only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to say about them that hadn't been saideach other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, and few new ways of giving us information about the sky breathed life into them. Well, I would put it These were the first humans and they belonged to you that this is a novel variantboth earth and sky. Over many jumbo spreadsAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, we get a different dinosaur in a different situation each time, whether it especially how they came to be being born. When they grew old and died, being slain or learning their bodies returned to fly, the earth and their life returned to the book gives us all sky. And that is why 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, earth and what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Long and Harry BloomStephanie Zabriskie|title=Pirates MagnifiedHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: With a 3x Magnifying GlassFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5

|summary=It's becoming easier and easier 'How Maasai Women Spoke to spot books for the young about pirates – that surely Cows is about the only career a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about itoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. It must be '' The Maasai are a combination of the derringcattle-do, herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the illegality, and whole story of course the fancy dress intimate and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one country's attacks on another, and reading about how treasuressymbiotic connection its people, slaves and other resources changed hands. This volume, however, tries especially its best to stand outwomen, have with their cows and has adopted for the equally prevalent concept of getting natural world. The oral tradition retelling the reader to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden in the images. For once, thoughmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind itdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston1839948493|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 45|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn'Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineerst trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I' takes a strictly hands-on approach m going to science sit down and devour. Then I'm going to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situationsgo back and read it properly. The book contains 25 projects And so it was with varying degrees ''A World of complexity Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricitymy four-legged friends. The book is designed with Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the younger scientist in mind, so there is accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toyslot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden1529507987|title=We Travel So FarThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=I love ''The lead singer of Foreigner said Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I've travelled so far want to change this lonely lifebe cheered up.'' WellAfter a hard day, hethere's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creatures, who probably wouldnnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they't call their life lonely, eitherre worth. Masses of animals gatherYou see, herd, school, and fly the value is in unison, what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and all make their migration to change their livesthe memories they hold. Some hide from No expense appears to be spared and the danger of winter storms, many seek the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano experts spend as much time and effort as is required to lay eggs in achieve the one place they know will keep them warmdesired result. It might seem to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what itis they's an approach that certainly worksre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK024162343X|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=Having I was the Internet bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the home for existence of a child to learn from is all well and good'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but it won't replace an encyclopaediawas probably worse still. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having Not too much of a good thing – it is no use for long after the young mind to be exposed to every bit end of knowledge we may have amassed. NoWWII, you need someone authoritative enough I didn't so much want to come along and collate learn about the important bits, letting you learn just enough, British army's successes (and the key things you do need to knowoccasional failures, all from one place. This book doesnbut we didn't really term itself dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as an encyclopaedia, that has want to dispute what right the army had to be saidthere in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but its large format puts it on I regret that I lacked the shelf next maturity to them, and its colourful and educative mien proves itapproach 's a very close relative, at least of the modern kindproblem' politely. What it has decided to do is 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 amassedI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsFritz and Kurt|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to 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 – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just 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 Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|isbn=024156574X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=5

|summary=The animal kingdom is ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a diverse one, full of creatures that do sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all sorts of things. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets you need to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practiceknow about this brilliant book. For budding vet It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-tomuh-be animals are TAZ''), gives you a constant source of fascination definition and they will absorb as much knowledge as then includes the word in a sentence so that you can give themknow how it should be used. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting You also get an educational engaging and entertaining animal encylopedia isfrequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopediaI have recently discovered a great pleasure: it was I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' books, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it todaydaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. It didnI't just teach me facts - it taught me how ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to find out information the feeders for myself a quick snatch of some food and how to use an indexwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It opened my eyes to subjects would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, in size and content it was very similar had access to a book such as ''DK ChildrenThe Secret Life of Birds's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over . So – what is it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano0192779230|title=Life on EarthVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was 'Germs' seems to have become a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nippercatch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. Since then In the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got first book in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightlooks to be a very promising new series, hearing OUP and so much more may Isabel Thomas have been like. But science will never stop, provided a clear and the next generation will need accessible introduction to be on board with the job world of discovering them, analysing germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of how the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownthinking has developed over time. As youThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist're which explains some of the kind of person to ask questions, trickiest concepts and you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer viruses – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionsand how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1800464495|title=Life on Earth100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=Out of all the things I wanted ''Babies seem to be as a childborn with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, an architect was not one being aware of themquantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. Which '' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a shamestrong predictor of later achievement, perhaps – double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I might have had think most parents are aware that giving your children a few Prince Charlesgood start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes -friendly ideas under my beltgives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, and even if beyond counting? I hadndon't exactly progressed at 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 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 might doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('buildwho needs sleep? -a-this-or-thatI' exercises you are sometimes forced ve got loads to undergo as an adultbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability Most people, from children to draw buildings, conceptualise towns and create model structures adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no abilitysleep is only likely to make it worse. But And there's also the fact that for the likes of Iggy Peckfar too long, the whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking lack of buildings sleep has been lauded as a virtue and how sleep made to improve on the ones he knowsseem like laziness. And soBeing up early, for working late has been praised and the duration of ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your engagement with these pages, will youCV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun1849767343|title=My First Wild Activity BookCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=You sit down together as a family The title and ask your child what they would like format of this book might lead you to read from your bulging bookcase. Will they choose the timeless classic think that you yourself read as it's either about responsibility - or it's a child? Perhaps they will pluck basic 1-2-3 book for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nopethose just starting out on the numbers journey. Neither It isn't: it's a hymn of thesepraise to maths. All you will hear It's about why maths is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with so wonderful and how you, so best make meet it a worthwhile sticker activity bookin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki1849767009|title= Scientist Academy: Are You Ready For the Challenge?It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Kids seem This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to have an innate curiosity about the world around them. They are constantly asking choir': the only people who'How?'ll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ' and 'know'Why?'that it' Curious kids s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and budding scientists are going -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to love the new 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 of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They'Scientist Academy're fine. In fact, they' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twistre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1776572858|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and RainbowsDon Bartlett (translator)

|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since Iasked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she've d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the colouringbasics, but the chances are in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that little will it wouldn't be kept on a long-term basis and discussed any further as it's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if the colouring produced 'wasn't something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate that itnice people talked about''s unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? . How much better to give a child something like I ''knew'' more, but was little ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbowswiser'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>. Thankfully, times have changed.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp1526362759|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. What a relief! They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of the natural history explorer's club they belong towhat it is, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly togetherwhy it matters, they are the kind how to fight tooth acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and claw to be the first to lay claim what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it alone, and devil take the other one. What they Your reasons for wanting money don't know is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowningmatter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, almost being eaten by be a lionclever shopper, crashing a hot air balloon one saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of them just so happened using to have do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in his pocket… This, then, is a fun Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and silly biology lesson – but thatStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's only fifty years since the best kindApollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Libby Walden Kathleen Boucher and Stephanie Fizer ColemanSara Chadwick|title=Hidden World: ForestNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Sometimes''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, less is moresetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. But a wood doesnDon't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get adults too, but there is a grip on the life needful space in the forest, whether they can actually see it an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for the trees in real life or not…tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>0228818826}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari1609809173|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5

|summary=While it's always useful for a child to have access to an atlasBrash and elegant, sophisticated, so they know where they are controversial and what there is in every other locationvibrant, itthe 1889 World's equally important that they know ''when'' they areFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and what has happened at any other place in timethe beautiful from many countries and cultures. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, which only has a few spreadsdance performances, but takes us right back food festivals and concerts to prehistorystun the senses. And towering above it all, through the birth of civilisation, most popular and up the most hated monument to today French accomplishment and daring – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen in the futureEiffel Tower. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland1848576536|title=Festivals Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and CelebrationsJem Maybank|rating=5

|summary=Every day is a feast day''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But thatand go inside your insides!'' That's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – the world is host what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to a whole lot moredo and honestly, and in every corner they have their own way of celebratingI don't see how you could resist. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the visiting spirits of the deceased back human body to their postcurious children-life homes; some rejoice in from the return of spring, or skeletal system to 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 thesemuscular system via circulation, respiration and this is a brilliant book for digestion, right up to the young DNA that shows how diverse our celebrations can bemakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma TrithartLangford_Emily|title=Myths and LegendsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, when you think about it – not quite legend, can count anything and not just the religions of the dead civilisationsthere's no limit to how far you can go, but something like then Emily moved a mixture of the twostep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Certainly some Then she began counting in threes: half of the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King Arthurlist were even numbers, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe they were true, even if they didnthe other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''t fit into any pattern of organised worship. But seeing (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as it is the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologies, itthey's vital for re a subset of the young odd numbers but sound as though they ought to have some grounding in be a subset of the subjecteven numbers, and this book is pretty good at providing suchbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Sophie GuerriveCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|titlegenre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Dinosaur DetectiveWhat a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''s Searchbut the pull of the sounds of a 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. Then - just because I could -I went back and did it all again and-Find Rescue Missionit was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=This A lot of history is a horrific worldabout men. Monsters leer over Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the mountain tops, therelet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn's a giant octopus in one building t true and a green giant's arms coming through the windows there are plenty of anotherwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and everywhere you look someone has lost or created somethingnever seen before. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand to help. YesSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on are the controls stories of his flying machine, he is able to visit all eleven zones, and find the five things requested some of him in eachthem. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim BialikIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Girling UpWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at teenagersfifty of its highest achievers, this book focuses on growing up covering sports as diverse as a girlswimming, fencing, riding, or ''Girling up'' if you willskating, and what much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour of teenage yearsis probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako ClulowRooney_Dino|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, eh? Wellthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, personallywe meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I've d never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animalheard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the gentle giants of Africa various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and Indiasquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, but rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps 's very visual, placing the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live dinosaurs in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants habitats and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people giving us sounds toothat spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>