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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony RossZabriskie1|title=A Horrid FactbookVillage Where Many Ways Meet: Horrid Henry's BodiesA Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you eat or chew''Across many African and Indigenous systems, did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And differences in a lifetime you produce enough urine to fill about 450 baths! Do you know how loud children learn, sense , or process the loudest burp was? Or what a bogey is made world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of? If these are the sort of facts human intelligence and figuresawareness, complete with a handful of Horrid Henry and Tony Rosseach holding value within the community.' illustrations, that would rock your child's world then this is the book for you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa WarehamB0GFQ81YQK|title=Take Me HomeHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: Tales From the Oral Stories of Battersea DogsMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted a dog but her parents would never allow it Before people came and she didn't get good enough exam results for her next option – becoming a vetjoined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Not one Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to be deterred she joined tal to each other. First, the staff at Battersea Dogs Homeearth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first as a kennel maid 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 eventually as died, their bodies returned to the head of rehomingearth and their life returned to the sky. 'Take Me Home' And that is why the story of some of earth and the highlights of her life at the home sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was therecare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Dillon and P J LynchB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Story of Britain|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together a clear, well-written and beautifully concise story of Britain, summing up How the history of Britain Sky and Ireland in a little over 320 pages. Significant events, ranging from the Norman Conquest to Earth Made People: From the South Sea Bubble, and groups Oral Stories of people ranging from highwaymen to the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 and 3 pages written in Dillon's chatty, easy to read style. There are also maps, including those of the D-Daylandings and the Civil War battles, a timeline for each major period (Middle Ages, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians and Twentieth Century) and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lynch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Nina Grunfeld|title=How To Get What You Want|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassStephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle of ''A Paper Engineering Masterclass''Before people came and joined the animals, you know exactly what you're getting from ''Pop-Up''there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. You'll see First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how pop-up books are madethey came to be. When they grew old and died, learn their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the tips of sky. And that is why the trade, earth and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfthe sky are both revered. If you're not rushing out Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to buy it immediately, there's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>and care for, both.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wallace and GromitStephanie Zabriskie|title=Wallace and Gromit's World How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of InventionMaasai Elders|rating=45
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|summary=We don't have many rules around these 'ere parts, but one How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of them is that we don't review TV tie-Maasai elders in books. It's not snobbery; it's just that there's only so many books we have time to cover and TV covers itself quite nicely already. So I'm being naughty by reviewing ''Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention''Ngorongoro, but I don't careTanzania. I couldn't resist it! And Christmas is coming up, so you need some gift ideas, don't you? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007382189</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce1839948493|title=The Big Green BookA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=WellIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, the titleI've never met one I didn's right: itt trust and I's bigve loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, itI'm going to sit down and devour. Then I's green (in message, not colour) m going to go back and read it's a bookproperly. And so it was with ''The Big Green BookA World of Dogs'' is a super guide , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to environmental issues for young kidsmy four-legged friends. It Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's packed to the brim with information, and has more flaps and pop-ups than you could shake learned quite a stick atlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der Manuelian1529507987|title=Hieroglyphs From A To ZThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=34.5
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|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children can write out their own coded messagesI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a simple introduction for any budding Egyptologistshard day, there'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 the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and has a lot of additional information about Ancient Egypt effort as is required to keep them interestedachieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Mayhew024162343X|title=Katie and the Waterlily PondStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When Katie and Grandma are I was the bad company other people got into at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit existence of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition for inspiration'god'. When one of Where was the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside proof? In history lessons, it and exploreswas probably worse still... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'Katie and the Waterlily Pondcolonies'' is a wonderful introduction for children as want to dispute what right the army had to art be there in general and Claude Monet in particularthe first place. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'' Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppiesproblem'politely. I wish I', d had Sathnam Sanghera''The Waterlily Ponds '', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, ParisStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony BrowneJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Play The Shape GameFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This heart-warming book tells We start with the wonderful true story 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 cat called Deweyvocational school. His beginnings were Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very humble Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for workmanlike as a fortuitous event that occurred one cold winter morninglight switch. Vicki Myron But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the chief librarian at Spencer Library Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in IowaGermany, heard some very strange noises coming from as did all the book drop box that borrowers used round-ups of Jews. These in order to return their books when turn leave the library was closed. On opening younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the box she discovered a smallUS, dirtywhile Fritz and his father are, shivering kitten and her heart melted. As a consequenceunknown initially to each other, packed off on the kitten, which was soon same train to be named Dewey, was adopted Buchenwald and became the official library catstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson1913750353|title=Have You Started Yet?: You Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and your period: getting the facts straightSue Macy|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s ''Britannica's Word of the preparation Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not probably tells you all that you need to know about this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problembrilliant book. Both are attitudes which are likely It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to stay through life pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and it’s obviously better then includes the word in a sentence so that it’s the firmer rather than the latteryou know how it should be used. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in also get an informative engaging and reassuring manner and in frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a form word which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old and above.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner0711266204|title=Dreadful FatesThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Imagine 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've established which species feed from the delight you getground, as which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a book reviewergood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, when you chance upon as a title that stands outchild, by filling a nice handy gap in the market youI'd never even noticed, and doing it so well you want had access to alert as many people as possible. This is such a time, Dreadful Fates is book such a book, and as for the gap… This book hits upon the darker corners of all those copious 'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations Secret Life of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again Birds''. So – and does what is it all for the under-thirteen audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt0192779230|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect of families, it is that books are included'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. It is evident from In the detailsfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, trivia OUP and facts here that you don’t need Isabel Thomas have provided a father, a mother, or siblingsclear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. You might even have several spreads of half- We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and step-siblings, what they thought caused them and copious parents here, there and everywherehow the thinking has developed over time. You might get to have The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a nanny, regular box headed 'speak like a cohort scientist' which explains some of family helpersthe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home fungi, protists and viruses – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1800464495|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid 100 Ways in 100 Days to sleep?!Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It is quite certain the reader of this book will not ''Babies seem to be a bed tester, however broad born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the smile it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream after. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisationwomb, a slavebeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, a drudgeassessing probability at six months old, or a worker in a Communist collective farm. But it is definitely an eye-opener how all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pagescomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</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=Glenn Murphy1406395404|title=ScienceThe Awesome Power of Sleep: Sorted! Evolution, Nature and StuffHow Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way 2020 has been a strange year: I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles doubt anyone would argue with cancer and the loss of her sightthat statement. We loved the warts-and-all picture Lots of her life that she gave us then, our routines have been completely dismantled and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second bookfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Blackwood|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908|rating=5|genre=Children Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s Nonwho needs sleep? -Fiction|summary=In 1908, Henry FordI's Model T hadn't yet brought cars ve got loads to the massesbe doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. The pioneers of Most people, from children to adults will have the world odd bad night but worrying about your lack of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the worldsleep is only likely to make it worse. Except they didn And there't want to be pioneers. One of s also the competitorsfact that for far too long, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to perpetuate an act of splendid follyseem like laziness. Being up early, not working late has been praised and the ability to open up a new way for men. We wished survive on little sleep has almost become something to be madmen, not pioneersput on your CV.'' Isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies1849767343|title=Gaia WarriorsCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The best way to read title and format of this book is might lead you to treat think that it like 's either about responsibility - or it's a magazine: flip basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the pages and dip in. I can guarantee that you will find something to catch your eyenumbers journey. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 It isn't: it'Dressing for the climate'', foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array s a hymn of different typefaces and page colours make the book very easy praise to browse, and the author excels at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward waymaths. So certain sections It's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in it could be considered not just as for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as welleveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1849767009|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is 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. HeBut... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a real tinkerer, forever in a barn or somewhere building something manically unusualcelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Luckily - although his long-suffering mother may disagree Bodies with that word - hedisabilities and markings. They's around at the birth of powered flightre fine. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>In fact, they're wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner1776572858|title=Deadly Peril How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and How To Avoid ItDon Bartlett (translator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if you're bitten by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a dangerous world out there book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and Tracey Turner has all the information I was told that young explorersit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, daredevils and fact-hounds need to knowbut was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1526362759|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of HowlersDosh: How to Earn It, Blunders and Random MistakerySave It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=ThereWhat a relief! 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 it. Your reasons for wanting money don's nought so queer as folkt matter: we all need it to some extent. From the idiot who broke You might want to go into business, be a car without realising his name clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTVthere might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the people who ordered someone possibility of using to paint clothes on all the people do good 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 of idiotsworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Comic Strip History of SpaceApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us to a [[The Comic Strip History of It's fifty years since the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of Apollo 13 mission was launched from the World]]Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, and have now turned their attention to space. They explain to children everything from but the origins story of that journey remains one of the universe, to greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering the truth about planets, right up to current space missionshappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1609809173|title=Bad Kids: the Worst-Behaved Children in HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I'm starting to wonder about Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the type of person who would write such a horrible and terrifying book for children; it1889 World's as confusing as trying to work out an age category for this book. ''Bad Kids'' is a gruesome look through history using Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the ways children were punished through worst and the ages as a central corebeautiful from many countries and cultures. It runs right through history The French Republic laid out model villages from ancient Iraqall their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and the modern day most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the use of ASBOsEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1848576536
|title=Humanatomy: How the Body Works
|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie NortonLangford_Emily|title=The Bumper Book of BraveryEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Bumper Book of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people in warsEmily found words ''useful'', to explorers enduring amazing hardshipsbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, through spies you can count anything and revolutionaries, by way of sportsmen and women, even to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon|title=Dinosaurs (Henrythere's House)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Henry's House is extraordinary: it's full of fossils, footprintsno limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and even real dinosaursbegan counting in twos. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining She knew all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees for himself just what amazing creatures they were, odd and learns the differences between the various typeseven numbers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most Then she began counting in threes: half of us (well, for me certainly) the word 'hero' summons an image of capeslist were even numbers, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written a book about but the other kind – the every day heroes from history, who achieve incredible things without the aid half was odd and it was this list of superpowers. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''The Dangerous Book of Heroesthreeven'' covers . (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a comprehensive range subset of characters from the history odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the British Empire. From campaigners for political changeeven numbers, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorers, each and every one of the people in this book lived brilliant lives and changed the world foreverbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane BrocketBuckingham_Dawn|title=Ripping Things to DoThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Right from the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered in, I had the distinct feeling this would be What a real gem of a book, and how right treat! I was. Though, initially, I was reminded of the Iggulden brothersreally did mean to just ''glance'' at ''Dangerous The Little Book for Boysof the Dawn Chorus'' series, this book has but the pull of the sounds of a very dozen different ethos, even though birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it bear comparisonall again and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk> So, what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Cullen and Simon RickertyPankhurst_Women|title=Peas!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=The farmer sows the seed from which Penelope and Pete Pea grow. They're picked, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton|title=What's Eating You?Kate Pankhurst
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Did you know that there are more than 430 types A lot of parasites that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it was feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like for me reading What's Eating You? It's a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans and other animals - that any science-loving child will loveread about or regard as role models.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Potts|title=The Smash! Smash! Truck|rating=3|genre=ChildrenOf course, this isn's Non-Fiction|summary=The Smash! Smash! Truck looks at the process t true and there are plenty of recycling glasswomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, taking in a brief look at the Big Bangthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, atoms and are the water cycle, to explain why recycling is a good ideastories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman Ignotofsky_Sport|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
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|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?Women in Sport''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go is coming to us just before the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital Winter Olympics in Boston,'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested South Korea in his head..February 2018. His was in an interesting case - the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot in the head with It celebrates a shotgun. His tongue was torn in half, his teeth century and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit half of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front development of his face.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenwomen's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives sport by looking at fifty of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sourcesits highest achievers, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism covering sports as diverse as seen through the eyes swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of children a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in different parts of Europethis book somewhere. The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it Each entry is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline of WW2.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Adolph|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Nondouble-Fiction|summary=A fascination page spread with family history seems more than just a passing fad: for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession brief biography 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 to 'where do I come from?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>striking portrait.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousRooney_Dino|title=Bob's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving Lift the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with children's authors at the forefront sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than dinosaurs, we meet a watered-down version variety of the sort creatures, some of information which would be given to an adult and whom are very familiar but some I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronised. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath d never heard of fresh air. Wellbefore! Each scene peels open, apartlayer by layer, that isshowing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, from when the loo gets a little too well used.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=roars and squawks to accompany them! The Blackest Hole in Space|author=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie and his dad build book creates a rocketdinosaur experience, then Charlie and Doggo head off into spacerather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does placing the dinosaurs in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their teahabitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>
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