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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattZabriskie1|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=A Village Where can you find a welter Many Ways Meet: A Story of trivia Belonging and facts about transport from the ages, from the first use of Shanks’s ponyCommunity, to the latest holidays to the edge of space? What has so much detail it can fit Rooted in the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? Where can the adult browsing their child’s non-fiction library find a 'Glamorous Glennis' going 'kinda screwy' and see how it refers to the breaking of the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pages, for one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewIndigenous Wisdom|author=Glenn Murphy|title=Science: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and StuffStephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature ''Across many African and stuff? UnsurprisinglyIndigenous systems, this is the book for you. If you're interested differences in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 spacehow children learn, black holes and stuff]sense , then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in or process the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of all human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the information youcommunity.'d want to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary BlackwoodB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Great RaceHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 1908Before people came and joined the animals, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to there was only the sky and the massesearth. The pioneers of Everything was quiet until the world of automobiles were experimenting earth and discovering just what the car could dosky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, by driving right round the worldsky breathed life into them. Except 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 didn't want came to be pioneers. One of the competitorsWhen they grew old and died, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out their bodies returned to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not the earth and their life returned to open up a new way for menthe sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. We wished And that is why people must pay attention to be madmen, not pioneersand care for, both.'' Isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola DaviesB0GHPMNF6P|title=Gaia WarriorsHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=The best way 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 read this book is tal to treat it like a magazine: flip each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the pages first humans and they belonged to both earth and dip insky. I can guarantee that you will find something And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to catch your eyebe. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the climate'', foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''sky. The array of different typefaces And that is why the earth and page colours make the book very easy sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to browse, and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward way. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as care for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as wellboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodStephanie Zabriskie|title=Mysterious Messages - A History How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Codes and CiphersMaasai Elders
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|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the spies with their secret worldoral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, itTanzania.'s the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and see what this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they're hidingcame to be so. ItCattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn's a combination t tell the whole story of geeky riddle solving (the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and geeks are coolespecially its women, so there) have with their cows and uncovering for the unknown meaningsnatural world. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history of codes and ciphers, looking at The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their creationcows, the stories behind them, and how to crack themdoes.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Crowther1839948493|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of AutomobilesWorld of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5
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|summary=Robert Crowther tells In the story interests of the carfull disclosure, from CugnotI must tell you that I's steam enginem a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, TrevithickI's road locomotive ve never met one I didn't trust and BenzI's Motorwagenve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, right through I'm going to the record-breaking Thrust SSC sit down and devour. Then I'm going to future carsgo back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', like with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty accidental owner of popan American Dingo -ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and itshe's packed with detaillearned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various1529507987|title=Hello Kitty Guide to LifeThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love ''Hello KittyThe Repair Shop'' is a huge worldwide phenomenon with a whole heap of related merchandise featuring the cute cartoon cat in dresses and ribbons. It appeals to girls and women of many ages, but this new hardback book ''Hello Kitty – Guide s my go-to Life'' is aimed at the brand's younger fans, probably around 6 programme when I want to 14 year oldsbe cheered up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Abbott Nez |title=Cromwell Dixon After a hard day, there's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixonnothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. He's a real tinkererYou see, forever the value is in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualwhat these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - heRegular viewers know the experts and they's around re all brilliant at the birth of powered flightexplaining what it is they're doing. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine workBut how did they start?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner024162343X|title=Deadly Peril and How To Avoid ItStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|summary=Have you ever wondered what I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to do if youlearn about the British army're bitten by blue-ringed octopuss successes (and occasional failures, or if you find yourself up but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to your neck in quicksand? Itbe called 'the colonies's a dangerous world out as want to dispute what right the army had to be there and Tracey Turner has all in the information that young explorersfirst place. Looking back, daredevils and factI still believe I was right -hounds need but I regret that I lacked the maturity to knowapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders Fritz and Random MistakeryKurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=ThereWe 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's nought so queer each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as folka light switch. From But this is the time just before the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and date instead of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, having a national vote to keep the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the people round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the original had been betterUS, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely same train to make a name for themselvesBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. We have long been a race And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of idiots.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1913750353|title=The Comic Strip History Britannica's Word of Spacethe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
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|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us to a [[The Comic Strip History ''Britannica's Word of the World by Sally Kindberg Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of the World]], and have now turned their attention Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to spaceknow about this brilliant book. They explain to children everything from the origins of the universe It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to what ancient civilisations thought of the starspronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), through astronomers discovering gives you a definition and then includes the truth about planets, right up to current space missionsword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson0711266204|title=Bad Kids: the Worst-Behaved Children in HistoryThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I'm starting ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to wonder about the type feeders for a quick snatch of person some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would write such have been wonderful if, as a horrible and terrifying book for children; itchild, I's as confusing as trying d had access to work out an age category for this a book. such as ''Bad KidsThe Secret Life of Birds'' . So – what is a gruesome look through history using the ways children were punished through the ages as a central core. It runs right through history from ancient Iraq, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) to the modern day and the use of ASBOs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy Ripley0192779230|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
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|summary=If you're looking for Germs' seems to have become a book catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which is going has the potential to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no furthermake you ill. So long as you don't mind In the groans of (mock) disgustfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, screams of horror OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and constantly being asked accessible introduction to the world of germs. We get an informed look at (another) picture or listen as more is read to you then you should be absolutely finehow people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. Following hot on the heels of last yearThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's success speak like a scientist''Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010'' is packed full of bizarre facts (which explains some of which the trickiest concepts and you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't)ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, fiends protists and viruses – and freakshow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Norton1800464495|title=The Bumper Book of Bravery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Bumper Book of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people 100 Ways in wars, 100 Days to explorers enduring amazing hardships, through spies and revolutionaries, Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by way Nurturing a Love of sportsmen and women, even to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaths|author=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)Emma Smith
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|summary=Henry's House is extraordinary'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: it's full understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of fossilsquantities at seven hours old, footprintsassessing probability at six months old, and even real dinosaurs. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees for himself just what amazing creatures they were, comprehending addition and learns the differences between the various typessubtraction at nine months old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}}''
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.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket1406395404|title=Ripping Things to DoThe Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Teens
|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. And there's also the fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Count on Me
|author=Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope The title and format of this book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be a real gem of might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book, and how right I wasfor those just starting out on the numbers journey. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothers It isn' t: it's a hymn of praise to maths. It'Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, this book has a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it bear comparisonin everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Cullen and Simon Rickerty1849767009|title=Peas!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45
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|summary=The farmer sows This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the seed from which Penelope only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they 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 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 Pete Pea growmarkings. They're pickedfine. In fact, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journeythey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton1776572858|title=What's Eating How Do YouMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Did you know that there are It's more than 430 types of parasites sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what she'd get me a book about it . A couple of days later I was like for me reading What's Eating You? It's handed a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and other animals - I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any science-loving child will lovefurther as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts1526362759|title=The Smash! Smash! TruckDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The SmashWhat a relief! Smash! Truck looks at the process A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of recycling glassit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, taking in be a brief look at the Big Bangclever shopper, atoms a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the water cycle, possibility of using to explain why recycling is a do good ideain the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman 178112938X|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer all these questions and more in his new book, ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenIt's Non-Fiction |summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go to fifty years since the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His Apollo 13 mission was in an interesting case - launched from the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in half, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit story of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at journey remains one of the front greatest survival stories of his faceall time. ''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sources, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children Survival in different parts of Europe. Space: The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it Apollo 13 Mission'' is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline brilliant retelling of WW2what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony AdolphKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree ExplorerNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=A fascination with family history seems more than just a passing fad: for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and in a mobile (both geographically and socially) and globalised society, people unable to answer a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity in pursuing an answer 9 Ways to Empower Tweens'where do I come from?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Bob's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bob the Builder and his crew of machines live in the glorious Sunflower Valley and enjoy their work. However, as well as building new developments, they like to look after the world around them. Their motto is ''Reduce,'' '' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This a self-help book aims to introduce the youngest of children to the benefits of recyclingfor tweens, how setting out to recycle and look after the world around show them using characters that are familiar and in a way that teaches, not preachesvital #lifeskills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524657X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, Don't groan! I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that know there is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother market glut of three teenage daughterssuch books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them but there is a size 6-8 needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesyounger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips1609809173|title=Planet In PerilEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump with children1889 World's authors at Fair in Paris encompassed the forefront of best, the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of worst and the sort of information which would be given to an adult beautiful from many countries and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedcultures. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath of fresh air. WellThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, apartput on art shows, that isdance performances, from when food festivals and concerts to stun the loo gets a little too well usedsenses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Blackest Hole in Space|author=Penny Little And towering above it all, the most popular and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie the most hated monument to French accomplishment and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their teadaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart Ross1848576536|title=MoonHumanatomy: Science, History, How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and MysteryJem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. Itgo inside your insides!''s hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf HeimannLangford_Emily|title=DragonmaziaEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Emily found words ''Dragonmaziauseful'' is packed to the rafters with detailed, engagingbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, varied you can count anything and fascinating mazes. Therethere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting sameystep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragonshalf of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and a few cuddly dragons tooit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Each page generally has one big maze (Actually, with this confused me a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around it. It doesnlittle bit at first as they't have an overall narrative, re a subset of the odd numbers but there's plenty sound as though they ought to be a subset of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselveseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We DoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Teach Your Granny To TextThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I loved this bookreally did mean to just ''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 rather wet February morning. I loved spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the positive tone of this bookbirds and listening to their song. It is Then - just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that because I could - I even passed went back and did it onto to my household's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots of ideas in all again and it that capture was just as good the spirit of these new-austerity timessecond time around. So, and took a note of a few for his next council meeting. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of the World|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|summary=''The Comic Strip History A lot of the World'' history is, as you might expect, a comic strip history of the worldabout men. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period of history summed up in a page or two. It's very much a potted history in the vein of the Horrible Histories series Kings and generals and 1066 inventors and All Thatpoliticians. It's a fantastic bookSometimes, both it feels almost as a light fun though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read, and about or regard as a brief education into everything that has been beforerole models. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dugald Steer|title=Spyology|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenOf course, this isn's Non-Fiction|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set out to write this manual t true and there are plenty of Spyologywomen who, otherwise known as Tradecraftthroughout history, in the course of his last missionhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, the deadly Operation CODEXor created something never seen before. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, London) when are the manual which I now have in front stories of me turned up at the headquarters some of MI6 in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEX. It's recently become available to the public under the fifty year rulethem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Voyage Across The Cosmos|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In the course of a year I see some wonderful books but this must rank as one of the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey to the edge of space and time'' the reader is off on a journey of a hundred and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earth. On the way you'll see some breathtaking sights and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of the cosmos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marion Bataille|title=Abc 3d|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus Pocus|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Hocus Pocus'' is part biography of the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them as they come alive from his posters, and part magic instruction manual. All the parts foster an interest Women in magic, and act as an inspiration Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to the next generation of magicians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWin|author=Richard Scarry|title=What Do People Do All Day?Rachel Ignotofsky
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|summary=This teachers' guide 'Women in Sport'' is designed coming to accompany [[The Big Field: A Child's Year Under us just before the Southern Cross by Anne Morddel]]Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. The inspiration for the book came about when the author worked as It celebrates a librarian at century and a school in half of the state development of Paranã in Brazilwomen's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. In trying to find Think of a book about the seasons (sport and how the natural world around them changed) for children a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the five to eleven age group she realised that none existed for the southern hemispherethis book somewhere. She set out to remedy the situationEach entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne MorddelRooney_Dino|title=The Big Field: A Child's Year Under the Southern CrossDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|summary=''My Mama and Papa work hard in Lift the city and they're always busy. That's why we live on Granny's farm, Chloe and Baby and me.'' We never know the name, or gender of the narrator, but it's flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a gentle, sensitive voice which guides us through the seasonschild. The farm – Southern Cross - has been in the family for at least three generations, as Granny's grandfather burned all the trees in the big field and planted coffee and soybeans. Her father did the same but Granny says that she keeps forgetting to plough – but she says it This one comes with a smile. She has something else in mind for the field.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186409</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lynn Cullen and Amy Young|title=Moi and Marie Antoinette|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Marie Antoinette and her pug dogsounds! Taking us layer by layer, Sebastien, had an idyllic life in her native Austria. She was the fifteenth child through various different ages of the Empressdinosaurs, who, in the traditions of the time, used her children to make marriages which would strengthen her own position. Marie Antoinette was told at the age of thirteen that she was to marry we meet a Prince – the grandson of the King of France. Sebastien narrates this charming tale variety of Marie Antoinette's journey to Francecreatures, her marriage, life at Versailles and the birth of her daughter Therese. It stops mercifully short of her execution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759774X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clarke Hutton |title=A Picture History of Great Discoveries|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=As soon as I opened this book I was taken back in time by about half a century. In a frieze around my classroom walls were lithographs by Clarke Hutton and they're all to be founds here in this book first published in 1954. Unusually it's the illustrator who is given credit for the book with Mabel George's text only being acknowledged on the title page of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199118353</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Walker |title=The Human Machine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In my youth (yes, alright – but it was quite some time ago) books for children about the human body were written in text-book style with some parts being obviously well-thumbed and others largely ignored other than by those who would be going on to do A level biology. As a result many people of my generation whom are ignorant about how their body really works – or only learn about it when something goes wrong. ''The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body'' is a welcome look at the subject written in a chatty and informal style and in a format very familiar to the target age group of eight plus.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199116776</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford |title=Outstanding Olympics|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenbut some I's Non-Fiction|summary=With 2008 being the year d never heard of the Beijing Olympics an authoritative book for children on the Olympic movement is opportune. The fact this one is written before! Each scene peels open, layer by Clive Gifford – sports fanatic and award-winning children's writer – is a real bonus. Gifford has a chatty style which pulls layer, showing you in from page one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199117764</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ernie Malik |title=Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion|rating=3|genre=Entertainment|summary=Who would have thought that Prague in what the Czech Republic could so convincingly masquerade as 1940s Londonvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, complete with authentic Routemaster buses and the lions of Trafalgar Square? This sleight of hand and many more are revealed in the Official Movie Companion to the forthcoming CS Lewis adaptationbackground noises, ''Prince Caspian''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270593</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Horne roars and Tracey Turner|title=101 Things You Wish You'd Invented and Some You Wish No One Had |rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Gearing up for the long school summer holidays yet? If not, you probably should be. It always pays squawks to plan in advance. Bored children aren't a pretty sight. You could certainly prepare yourself well by taking a look at the latest in Bloomsbury's 101 Things To Do series. This one is Things You Wish You'd Invented and it entertained me for a good few hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747591989</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Flynn|title=accompany them! The Ultimate Survival Guide For Boys|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=A potentially interesting book about how to survive in the wilderness or your back gardencreates a dinosaur experience, which unfortunately misses the mark by not rather than just being enough of one thing or the other. It's worth a read, but you wouldn't take facts about dinosaurs it on a dangerous camping trip to the back garden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230700519</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Georgina Phillips|title=Ouch! Extreme Feats of Human Endurance|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Everything from Shackleton to Ellen MacArthurvery visual, by way of placing the Japanese word for fried rice-field grasshopper, dinosaurs in their habitats and 32 hour long after dinner speeches. ''Ouch!'' contains fascinating trivia on every page giving us sounds too that children will love to repeat back to you at lengthspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454056</amazonuk>
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