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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=5|genre=Children's nonNon-fiction=Fiction|summary=''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to the benefit of them all.__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattB0GFQ81YQK|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
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|summary=Cities don’t just spring up around usBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. They have taken thousands of years of civilisation Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to formeach other. First, however surprising that might appear at timesthe earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. ConverselyAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, there are some who are just a few hundreds of years especially how they came to be. When they grew old that have been empty for centuriesand died, their bodies returned to the earth and others their life returned to the sky. And that have been planned over a drawing board is why the earth and become a capital city in a decade-long instantthe sky are both revered. All are within these tidy 48 pagesOnly together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard PlattB0GHPMNF6P|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the aeroplane?!Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Where can you find a welter of trivia Before people came and facts about transport from joined the agesanimals, from there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the first use of Shanks’s pony, sky began to the latest holidays tal to each other. First, the edge of space? What has so much detail it can fit in earth created bodies. And then, the reasons for Mark Twain’s pen-name? Where can sky breathed life into them. These were the adult browsing 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 child’s non-fiction library find a 'Glamorous Glennis' going 'kinda screwy' bodies returned to the earth and see how it refers their life returned to the breaking of sky. And that is why the earth and the sound barrier? In these tidy 48 pagessky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for one, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119694</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn MurphyStephanie Zabriskie|title=ScienceHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and StuffFrom the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
|rating=5
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|summary=Ever wanted ''How Maasai Women Spoke to know about evolution, nature and stuff? Unsurprisingly, this Cows is the book for you. If you're interested in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space, black holes and stuff], then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister children’s nonfiction book in drawn from the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full oral traditions of all the information youMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'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 Blackwood1839948493|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-A World Auto Race Of 1908of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In 1908the interests of full disclosure, Henry FordI must tell you that I's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the massesm a sucker for dogs. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could do In nearly eight decades, by driving right round the world. Except they I've never met one I didn't want to be pioneerstrust and I've loved most of them. One of I wish I felt the competitorssame about human beings. So, Antonio Scarfoglioany book about dogs, put I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so perfectly when he said it was with ''We had set out to perpetuate an act A World of splendid follyDogs'', not with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to open up a new way for men. We wished to be madmen, not pioneersmy four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she'' Isn't that s learned quite a lot about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>dogs since then.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies1529507987|title=Gaia WarriorsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love ''The best way to read this book is to treat it like a magazine: flip the pages and dip inRepair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I can guarantee that you will find something want to catch your eyebe cheered up. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate''After a hard day, foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star foodthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. The array of different typefaces and page colours make You see, the book very easy value is in what these possessions are worth to browse, the people who own them and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward waymemories they hold. So certain sections in it could No expense appears to be considered not just spared and the experts spend as for older children or teen readers, but much time and effort as an informative read for adults as wellis required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood024162343X|title=Mysterious Messages - A Stolen History of Codes and Ciphers|author=Sathnam Sanghera
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ThereI 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's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just Where was the spies with their secret worldproof? In history lessons, it's was probably worse still. Not too long after the mystery end of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. ItWWII, I didn's being able t so much want to unravel them and see what they're hiding. Itlearn about the British army's a combination of geeky riddle solving successes (and geeks are cooloccasional failures, so therebut we didn't dwell on those) and uncovering in what came to be called 'the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us colonies' as want to a history of codes and ciphers, looking at their creation, dispute what right the stories behind them, and how army had to crack thembe there in the first place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Crowther|title=Cars Looking back, I still believe I was right - A Pop-Up Book Of Automobiles|rating=3but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely.5|genre=Children I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's Non-Fiction|summary=Robert Crowther tells the story of the car, from Cugnot's steam engine, Trevithick's road locomotive and BenzStolen History's Motorwagen, right through to the record-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty of pop-ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and it's packed with detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=VariousJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Hello Kitty Guide to LifeFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Hello Kitty'' is a huge worldwide phenomenon We start with a whole heap the pair of related merchandise featuring brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the cute cartoon cat in dresses empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and ribbonsat a vocational school. It appeals Kurt has to girls 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 women 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 many ageshaving a national vote to keep the Nazis out, but this new hardback book invite them in with open arms. ''Hello Kitty – Guide to LifeKristallnacht'' is aimed 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 brand's younger fansUS, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, probably around 6 packed off on the same train to 14 year oldsBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000732622X</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Abbott Nez 1913750353|title=Cromwell DixonBritannica's Sky-Cycle|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Meet Cromwell Dixon. He's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at Word of the birth of powered flight. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDay|author=Tracey Turner|title=Deadly Peril Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and How To Avoid ItSue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you ever wondered what all that you need to do if know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells youhow to pronounce it (''re bitten by blueraz-ringed octopusmuh-TAZ''), or if gives you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? It's a dangerous world out there definition and Tracey Turner has all then includes the information word in a sentence so that young explorers, daredevils you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and fact-hounds need to knowfrequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</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=Philip Ardagh0711266204|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folk. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided the original had been better, and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselves. We have long been a race Secret Life of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBirds|author=Sally Kindberg Moira Butterfield and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of SpaceVivian Mineker (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Sally Kindberg I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and Tracey Turner treated us to a [[The Comic Strip History of watch the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History vast numbers of the World]], and have now turned their attention to spacebirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. They explain to children everything I've established which species feed from the origins of the universeground, which pop to what ancient civilisations thought the feeders for a quick snatch of the starssome food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, through astronomers discovering the truth about planetsas a child, right up I'd had access to current space missionsa book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson0192779230|title=Bad KidsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: the Worst-Behaved Children in HistoryThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I'm starting Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to wonder about cover anything unpleasant which has the type of person who would write such a horrible and terrifying book for children; it's as confusing as trying potential to work out an age category for this bookmake you ill. ''Bad Kids'' is a gruesome look through history using In the ways children were punished through the ages as first book in what looks to be a central core. It runs right through history from ancient Iraqvery promising new series, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the modern day and the use world of ASBOs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you're looking for a book which is going to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no furthergerms. So long as you don't mind the groans of (mock) disgust, screams of horror and constantly being asked to 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 you might appreciate knowing – others the trickiest concepts and you will definitely wish you didn't)ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fiends fungi, protists and freaksviruses – and how 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|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
|rating=5
|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
|isbn=1849767343
|title=Count on Me
|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|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
|genre=For Sharing
|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)
|rating=5
|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)
|rating=5
|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
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving the Earth is Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, 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, put on art shows, apartdance performances, that isfood festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, from when the loo gets a little too well usedmost popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Blackest Hole in Space1848576536|authortitle=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie 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 tea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Stewart Ross|title=Moon: Science, History, 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
|rating=5
|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 busyflap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. That's why This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we live on Granny's farmmeet a variety of creatures, Chloe and Baby and me.some of whom are very familiar but some I'' We d never know the nameheard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, or gender of showing you what the narratorvarious dinosaurs are getting up to, but it's a gentlewith background noises, sensitive voice which guides us through the seasons. roars and squawks to accompany them! The farm – Southern Cross - has been in the family for at least three generationsbook creates a dinosaur experience, as Grannyrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's grandfather burned all very visual, placing the trees dinosaurs in the big field their habitats and planted coffee and soybeans. Her father did the same but Granny says giving us sounds too that she keeps forgetting to plough – but she says it with a smile. She has something else in mind for the fieldspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186409</amazonuk>
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