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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Hill and Sandra LawrenceZabriskie1|title=The Atlas A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of MonstersBelonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45

|summary=There are monsters ''Across many African and mysterious charactersIndigenous systems, such as trollsdifferences in how children learn, leprechaunssense , goblins and minotaurs. They're or process the stuff of far too many stories world were not treated as disorders to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about thembe corrected. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such They were understood as Gog natural variations of human intelligence and Magogawareness, Scylla and Charybdiseach holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, and the bunyipwhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of thing people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to the next level; even if you cannot place a whole that combines them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, to the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge benefit of them you really need a book that knows its stuffall. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706961</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily Murray and Chris WormellB0GFQ81YQK|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome to How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Museum)Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=One of Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the selling points for entities like earth. Everything was quiet until the ''Jurassic Park'' films is that they bring all earth and the high-energy action of dinosaur life sky began to tal to each other. First, the screenearth created bodies. And then, in a way that is suitablethe sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they would say, for children of all agescame to be. But there is a very different way of going about things. This book does feature dinosaur-on-dinosaur combatWhen they grew old and died, but only in presenting their bodies returned to the most scientific of fossil remains. It delves into the evolutionary earth and their life of what we have long loved returned to enjoy and all the major scientific developments for sky. And that is why the most inquisitive student, so earth and the book is actually worth considering in a very different waysky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. I would say this And that is ideal why people must pay attention to, and care for ''adults'' of all ages, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=Susanna Tee How the Sky and Santy Gutierrezthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|titleauthor=This Cookbook is GrossStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=The misuse of language is a modern diseaseBefore 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. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendousAnd then, but the sky breathed life into them. These were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People just seem the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to pluck words out of the ether earth and pretend that they are their life returned to the correct onessky. Are And that is why the recipes in Susanna Tee earth and Santy Gutierrez's 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the language sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nicewhy people must pay attention to, and care for, but in appearance they are absolutely vileboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938289</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jojo SiwaStephanie Zabriskie|title= Jojo's Guide How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Sweet LifeOral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= JoJo with ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the Bow Bow has written oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a Book Book! And without meaning cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to sound like my expectations were low, it was surprisingly goodbe so. I say Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this because we know JoJo as the girl from ''Dance Momsdoesn'' with t tell the outspoken mother (well, one whole story of the outspoken mothers) who is known for her dancing intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and the big bows she wearsespecially its women, more than have with their cows and for her brainsthe natural world. And yet this book shows us another side, a side in which she is an articulateThe oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, insightful and intelligent young womandoes. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419728172</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet1839948493|title= Stupendous ScienceA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Education should be funIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. We learn best when we are engaged with practical In nearly eight decades, enjoyable tasksI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. That's I wish I felt the secret behind the experiments in same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'Stupendous Sciencem going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with '' They have the fun element, the A World of Dogs'wow factor,' and most importantly, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the home. Each experiment teaches accidental owner of an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through playAmerican Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber1529507987|title= Optical IllusionsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I used love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to work as a library assistant and programme when I remember arriving want to work one morning to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around be cheered up. After a bookhard day, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eyethere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they' re worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain waymemories they hold. For a brief period in No expense appears to be spared and the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain experts spend as much time and went back effort as is required to their everyday livesachieve the desired result. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in Regular viewers know the engrossing experts and immersive new book they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'Optical Illusionsre doing.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou024162343X|title=Make and Play: NativityStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children was the bad company other people got into at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to decorate with a box school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safewas probably worse still. WhereNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's the imaginationsuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the creativity, colonies' as want to dispute what right the sense of pride army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that? How much better I lacked the maturity to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? approach 'the problem' politely. ThatI wish I's exactly what they get with Joey Choud had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Make and Play NativityStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ParkerJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|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 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 Fritz and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Emily Hawkins and Lucy Letherland|title=Atlas of Dinosaur Adventures: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You might thinkWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselvestheir muckers, that there was little doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to say about them that hadn't been saiddo – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and few new ways of giving us information about themat a vocational school. Well, I would put it Kurt has to you that this is 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 novel variantlight switch. Over many jumbo spreads, we get a different dinosaur in a different situation each But this is the time, whether it be being born, being slain or learning just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to flyHitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the book gives us all the usual factsNazis out, not invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in chronological order, nor Vienna just as much as in some other more spurious fashionGermany, but grouped by where these dinosaurs livedas did all the round-ups of Jews. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants 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 eachother, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the world adult variant of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes all this old subject feel remarkably new…could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry Bloom1913750353|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=It''Britannica's becoming easier Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and easier Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to spot books for the young about pirates – that surely is about the only career from the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced know about itthis brilliant book. It must be a combination of the derringstarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-do, the illegalityTAZ''), gives you a definition and of course then includes the fancy dress and silly speak word in a sentence so that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one country's attacks on another, and reading about know how treasures, slaves and other resources changed handsit should be used. This volume, however, tries its best to stand out, You also get an engaging and has adopted the equally prevalent concept of getting the reader to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden in the imagesfrequently amusing illustration too. For once, though, thereI don't think I's ve ever encountered a thoroughly educative reasoning behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Alliston0711266204|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 Secret Life of complexity to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion and electricity. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on the fun aspect, with many of the projects involving toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Laura Knowles Moira Butterfield and Chris Madden|title=We Travel So FarVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer of Foreigner said ''I've travelled so far to change this lonely life.'' Well, he's gone nowhere in comparison to many have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of these creatures, who probably wouldn't call their life lonely, eitherbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Masses of animals gather, herd, school, and fly in unison, and all make their migration to change their livesAn hour can pass without my noticing. Some hide I've established which species feed from the danger of winter stormsground, many seek which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up and who settles in for a volcano to lay eggs in the one place they know will keep them warmgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It might seem would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect such as ''The Secret Life of animal nature, but on this evidence itBirds''s an approach that certainly works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=3.5

|summary=Having the Internet in 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the home for a child potential to learn from is all well and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaediamake you ill. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much of a good thing – it is no use for In the young mind first book in what looks to be exposed a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to every bit the world of knowledge we may have amassedgerms. No, you need someone authoritative enough to come along We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and collate the important bits, letting you learn just enough, what they thought caused them and how the key things you do need to know, all from one placethinking has developed over time. This book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaedia, that has to The vocabulary can be said, confusing but its large format puts it on Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the shelf next to them, trickiest concepts and its colourful and educative mien proves ityou's a very close relativell soon be familiar with bacteria, at least of the modern kind. What it has decided to do is to structure the world into certain subjectsfungi, protists and viruses – and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amassedhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1800464495|title=My Encyclopedia 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Very Important AnimalsYour Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=The animal kingdom ''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 diverse onestrong predictor of later achievement, full double that of creatures 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 all sorts , in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of thingsus 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 number Awesome Power of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a quick google when something strange appears in their practiceyear: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. For budding vetSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -I've got loads to-be animals are a constant source of fascination doing) and they others will absorb as much knowledge as you can give themworry unnecessarily. It Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is not practical only likely to visit make it worse. And there's also the zoo every dayfact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, but getting an educational working late has been praised and entertaining animal encylopedia isthe ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1849767343|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: The title and format of this book might lead you to think that it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really s either about responsibility - or it''do'' books, but it was s a treasure trove basic 1-2-3 book for me and I still have it todaythose just starting out on the numbers journey. It didnisn't just teach me facts - : it taught me how to find out information for myself and how 's a hymn of praise to use an indexmaths. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' about why maths is so wonderful and I can imagine a younger me hunched over how you meet it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I was a big fan This could have been one of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the science regarding them has evolved leaps people who know that nudity is OK and bounds. Wethe ones who ''know'' that it've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises s shameful will avoid it like they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more may have been likethan a book about not wearing clothes. But science will never stop, It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and the next generation will need to be on board of every possible hue. Bodies with the job of discovering them, analysing them, disabilities and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownmarkings. As youThey're the kind of person to ask questionsfine. In fact, you may well ask they'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionsre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1776572858|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and 70 Lift-flaps!Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=WeIt're constantly being s more than sixty years since I asked to save somethinghow babies were made. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seasMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. There's absolutely A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger more than the othersbasics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it's (a) the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) it's the most worthwhile to save, why not just go for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? wasn't something which nice people talked about''. Forget jugularI ''knew'' more, youbut was little ''wiser'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food. Thankfully, spices and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you times have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The first step to saving anything is to understand it, to let us appreciate it, and this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhilechanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts1526362759|title=Iggy Peck's Big Project Book for Amazing ArchitectsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=Out of all the things I wanted to be as What a childrelief! A book about money, for children, an architect was not one with clear explanations of them. Which what it is a shame, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my beltwhy it matters, and even if I hadn't exactly progressed at that I might have been how to acquire more at ease at those stupid teamof it (nope -bonding robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you'build-a-this-or-thatve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don' exercises you are sometimes forced t matter: we all need it to undergo as an adultsome extent. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability You might want to draw buildingsgo into business, conceptualise towns be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and create model structures of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no abilitythere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. But for There's also the likes possibility of Iggy Peckusing to do good in the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking story of that journey remains one of buildings and how to improve on the ones he knowsgreatest survival stories of all time. And so, for the duration ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of your engagement with these pages, will youwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Otter Kathleen Boucher and Maxime LebrunSara Chadwick|title=My First Wild Activity BookNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=You sit down together as a family Brash and ask your child what they would like to read elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from your bulging bookcasemany countries and cultures. Will they choose The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the timeless classic that you yourself read as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nopesenses. Neither of these. All you will hear is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with youAnd towering above it all, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity bookthe most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki1848576536|title= Scientist AcademyHumanatomy: Are You Ready For How the Challenge?Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|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?'' Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''Why? That's what ' Curious kids and budding scientists are going to love the new 'Humanatomy'Scientist Academy'invites you to do and honestly, I don' t see how you could resist. This informative book by Ivy Kidsprovides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, which is filled with practical experiments respiration and fun activities with an educational twistdigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca JonesLangford_Emily|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows|rating=5|genre=Crafts|summary=I've a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into the colouring, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis and it's not particularly satisfying. How much better would it be if the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone else, who would appreciate that itEmily's unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? How much better to give a child 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>}}{{newreviewNumbers|author=Stephan Lomp|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseJoss Langford

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Meet Wilfred and OsbertEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorerObviously, you can count anything and there's club they belong no limit tohow far you can go, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and claw to be even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the first to lay claim to it alonelist were even numbers, and devil take but the other onehalf was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. What they don't know is that the drama that ensues when (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lion, crashing a hot air balloon one subset of them just so happened the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to have in his pocket… This, then, is be a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only subset of the best kindeven numbers, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer ColemanBuckingham_Dawn|title=Hidden World: ForestThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife|summary=Sometimes, less is more. But What a wood doesntreat! I really did mean to just 't understand that, does it – it just stretches 'glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and on, expanding outwards rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and outwards, listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and upwards did it all again and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understandwas just as good the second time around. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student So, what do you get a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo BadariPankhurst_Women|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=While A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it's always useful for a child feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to have access to an atlasread about or regard as role models. Of course, so they know where they are this isn't true and what there is in every other locationare plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, it's equally important that they know ''when'' they areor created something never seen before. So here, and what has happened at any other place in time. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, which only has a few spreads, but takes us right back to prehistory, through are the birth stories of civilisation, and up to today – as well as asking a few questions some of what might happen in the futurethem. 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 NewlandIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Festivals and CelebrationsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Every day ''Women in Sport'' is a feast day, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day coming to have about three people attributed to it. But that's us just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – before the world is host to a whole lot more, and Winter Olympics in South Korea in every corner they have their own way of celebratingFebruary 2018. Some poignantly light small fires It celebrates a century and set them afloat to guide the visiting spirits of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice in the return a half of spring, or the bounties development of the summerwomen's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But the world has a ritual calendar sport by looking at fifty of events such its highest achievers, covering sports as thesediverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can bedouble-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma TrithartRooney_Dino|title=Myths Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and LegendsSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=Mythology is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a peculiar realmchild. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, when you think about it – not quite legend, and not just the religions through various different ages of the dead civilisationsdinosaurs, but something like we meet a mixture variety of the two. Certainly creatures, some of the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – whom are very familiar but we also seemed to believe they were true, even if they didnsome I't fit into any pattern d never heard of organised worship. But seeing as it is before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologiesvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's vital for very visual, placing the young to have some grounding dinosaurs in the subject, their habitats and this book is pretty good at providing suchgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>