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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason HellerZabriskie1|title=The Captain Jack Sparrow HandbookA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Guide to Swashbuckling with the Pirates Story of the Caribbean|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You don't see pirates reading many books. If you ask meBelonging and Community, it's because their hooks make the pages hard to turn. Of course, the salty damp air would do nothing for a book's longevity, just one more reason to make sure you've read and understood this before you take to the ocean wave and set sail on your adventures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594745048</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Claudia Myatt|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide to the Blue PlanetStephanie Zabriskie
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? Let's start again. This fantastic book is about the ''blue'' stuff, everything from oceans to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creatures, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores Across many African and whirlpoolsIndigenous systems, inland waterwaysdifferences in how children learn, tidessense , lochs and locksor process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. There are answers to lots They were understood as natural variations of questions of the 'Why is the sea blue?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography human intelligence and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop of green ketchupawareness, to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is each holding value within the best childrencommunity.'s introduction to 'water' that I've ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BondB0GFQ81YQK|title=Paddington's Guide to LondonHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Some things are just a brilliant ideaBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Young Paddington Bear has written a guide book Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to his adopted home in tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the way that only he could do itsky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. All his When they grew old friends are there – Mr and Mrs Brown and died, their children Jonathan bodies returned to the earth and Judy along with their housekeeper Mrs Bird life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and of course we mustn't forget Paddington's old friend Mr Gruber who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Londonthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. So, where And that is Paddington planning why people must pay attention to take you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007415915</amazonuk>, and care for, both.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Van AllsburgB0GHPMNF6P|title=Queen How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of the FallsMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Annie Edson Taylor Before people came and joined the animals, there was sixty-two years old only the sky and a widowthe earth. She didn't have very much money saved and she Everything was worried about her future - quiet until she had an inspirationthe earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. She would have a barrel made - a very stout 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 water-tight barrel - learned and she would remembered, especially how they came to be . When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the first person earth and their life returned to brave the thundering waters of Niagra Falls in this barrelsky. Chris Van Allsburgh tells us her story from And that is why the moment of inspiration right through to the times after the epic trip, but in truth earth and the words sky are simpy there to eleborate on his wonderful drawingsboth revered. Only together can they create human beings. They're so good And that you could be forgiven is why people must pay attention to, and care for thinking that they're black and white photographs on occasions, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judy BartkowiakStephanie Zabriskie|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted How Maasai Women Spoke to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for Cows: From the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's BodiesOral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you eat or chew, did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And in a lifetime you produce enough urine ''How Maasai Women Spoke to fill about 450 baths! Do you know how loud the loudest burp was? Or what Cows is a bogey is made of? If these are children’s nonfiction book drawn from the sort oral traditions of facts and figuresMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, complete with a handful of Horrid Henry and Tony RossTanzania.' 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 Wareham1839948493|title=Take Me Home: Tales A World of Battersea Dogs|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted a dog but her parents would never allow it and she didn't get good enough exam results for her next option – becoming a vet. Not one to be deterred she joined the staff at Battersea Dogs Home, first as a kennel maid and eventually as the head of rehoming. 'Take Me Home' is the story of some of the highlights of her life at the home and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Dillon Carlie Sorosiak and P J Lynch|title=The Story of BritainLuisa Uribe
|rating=5
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|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a clearsucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, well-written I've never met one I didn't trust and beautifully concise story I've loved most of Britain, summing up them. I wish I felt the history of Britain and Ireland in a little over 320 pagessame about human beings. Significant events So, ranging from the Norman Conquest to the South Sea Bubbleany book about dogs, and groups of people ranging from highwaymen I'm going to the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 sit down and 3 pages written in Dillondevour. Then I's chatty, easy m going to go back and read styleit properly. There are also maps, including those And so it was with ''A World 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>}} {{newreview|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 Dogs'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to do nextmy four-legged friends. 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 Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positivelys learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle1529507987|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering MasterclassThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle of I love ''A Paper Engineering MasterclassThe Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, you know exactly there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what youthey're getting from ''Pop-Up''worth. You'll see how pop-up books , the value is in what these possessions are made, learn worth to the tips of people who own them and the trade, memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and make four elaborate 3D models yourselfeffort as is required to achieve the desired result. If you Regular viewers know the experts and they're not rushing out to buy all brilliant at explaining what it immediately, thereis they's something wrong with you!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>re doing. But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wallace and Gromit024162343X|title=Wallace and Gromit's World of InventionStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We donI 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 have many rules around these so much want to learn about the British army'ere partss successes (and occasional failures, but one of them is that we dondidn't review TV tie-dwell on those) in books. Itwhat came to be called 's not snobbery; itthe colonies's just that as want to dispute what right the army had to be there's only so many books we have time to cover and TV covers itself quite nicely alreadyin the first place. So Looking back, I still believe Iwas right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'm being naughty by reviewing the problem'politely. I wish I'Wallace and Gromitd had Sathnam Sanghera's World of Invention'', but I donStolen History''t care. 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|author=Alan James BrownJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Tolpuddle Boy: Transported to Hell Fritz and BackKurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In 1834, six men from We start with the Dorset village pair of Tolpuddle were deported to Australia for brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their trade union activities. This bookmuckers, written 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 simple style Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for childrenusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, tells the true story and instead of what happened having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite themin with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the politics round-ups of Jews. These in their arrest and deportation turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the campaign by trade unionists US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other supporters of trade union rights , packed off on the same train to overturn their convictionsBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce1913750353|title=The Big Green BookBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Well, ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title's right: it's big, it's green (in message, not colour) 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and itTickle Your Humerus''s a which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''The Big Green BookRazzmatazz'' is a super guide , tells you how to environmental issues for young kids. Itpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''s packed to the brim with information), gives you a definition and has more flaps then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and pop-ups than you could shake frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a stick at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Der Manuelian0711266204|title=Hieroglyphs From A To ZThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children 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 write out their own coded messagespass without my noticing. It I's ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a simple introduction quick snatch of some food and who settles in for any budding Egyptologistsa good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, and has I'd had access to a lot book such as ''The Secret Life of additional information about Ancient Egypt to keep them interestedBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Mayhew0192779230|title=Katie and the Waterlily Pond|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition Very Short Introductions for inspiration. When one Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond'' is a wonderful introduction for children to art in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGerms|author=Anthony Browne|title=Play The Shape GameIsabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might 'Germs' seems to have already played the shape game. It involves doing become a squiggle on a piece of paper, then either you or someone else catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to turn that squiggle into a full picture. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little, and now he's playing it with 45 celebrities and make youill. Proceeds from In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the auction world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the artwork are going to [http://www.rainbowtrust.orgthinking has developed over time.uk The Rainbow Trust Childrenvocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the trickiest concepts and you's Charity]ll soon be familiar with bacteria, who provide emotional fungi, protists and viruses – and practical support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic causehow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter1800464495|title=Dewey100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: The True Story Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a World-famous Library CatLove 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
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book 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 (''The Way who needs sleep? - I See It''ve got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and from children to adults will have the loss odd bad night but worrying about your lack of her sightsleep is only likely to make it worse. We loved And there's also the warts-fact that for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and-all picture of her life that she gave us thensleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and so we were really pleased the ability to see that she's written a second booksurvive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1849767343|title=The Great Race: The Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race Of 1908|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadn't yet brought cars to the masses. The pioneers of the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just what the car could do, by driving right round the world. Except they didn't want to be pioneers. One of the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for men. We wished to be madmen, not pioneers.'' Isn't that about the best quote you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Nicola Davies|title=Gaia WarriorsMiguel 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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|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!''
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy RipleyLangford_Emily|title=RipleyEmily's Believe It or Not 2010Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If Emily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, youcan count anything and there're looking for a book which is going s no limit to keep how far you can go, but then Emily moved a child (or some adults!) happy for hours on end then look no step furtherand began counting in twos. So long as you don't mind the groans of (mock) disgust, screams of horror She knew all about odd and constantly being asked to look at (another) picture or listen as more is read to you then you should be absolutely fineeven numbers. Following hot on Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the heels other half was odd and it was this list of last yearodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called 's success 'threeven'Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010. (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they'' is packed full re a subset of bizarre facts (some the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of which you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't)the even numbers, fiends and freaksbut it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie NortonBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Bumper Little Book of Braverythe Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Bumper Little Book of Bravery looks at bravery in 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 spent an indulgent hour or so reading all its forms about the birds and listening to their song. Then - from people in wars, to explorers enduring amazing hardships, through spies just because I could - I went back and revolutionaries, by way of sportsmen did it all again and womenit was just as good the second time around. So, even to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh and Mike GordonPankhurst_Women|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Henry's House A lot of history is extraordinary: it's full of fossils, footprints, about men. Kings and generals and inventors and even real dinosaurspoliticians. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him aroundSometimes, explaining it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all , let alone ones young girls might like to read about dinosaurs, or regard as Henry sees for himself just what amazing creatures they were, and learns the differences between the various typesrole models.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (wellOf course, for me certainly) the word this isn'hero' summons an image t true and there are plenty of capeswomen who, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written a book about the other kind – the every day heroes from throughout history, who achieve have achieved amazing things or shown incredible things without the aid of superpowers. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known peoplebravery, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, ''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empireor created something never seen before. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorersSo here, each and every one of the people in this wonderful picture book lived brilliant lives and changed from Kate Pankhurst, are the world foreverstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane BrocketIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Ripping Things Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to DoWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Right from ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the very moment I opened the envelope this book was delivered Winter Olympics in South Korea in, I had February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the distinct feeling this would be a real gem development of women's sport by looking at fifty of a bookits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and how right I wasmuch more. Though, initially, I was reminded Think of the Iggulden brothers' ''Dangerous Book for Boys'' series, a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book has somewhere. Each entry is a very different ethos, even though the subject matter overlaps somewhat unavoidably making it bear comparisondouble-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980966</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Cullen and Simon RickertyRooney_Dino|title=Peas!Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The farmer sows Lift the seed from which Penelope and Pete Pea growflap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. TheyThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I're pickedd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, packedlayer by layer, deliveredshowing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, boughtwith background noises, cooked roars and eatensquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and we follow them on every step of their journeygiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>
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