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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownB0GFQ81YQK|title= Lesser Spotted Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see How the Sky and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and LinsangEarth Made People: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrom the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author= Rachel Williams and Carnovsky|title=IlluminatureStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=Like Halley's CometBefore people came and joined the animals, I am allowed out once every 70 years, or so, for there was only the sky and the nightearth. On one such trip Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the trendier side of London I was supping an ale in another Hipster Barearth created bodies. And then, but this one had a differencethe sky breathed life into them. The walls These were covered in overlapping paintings of animals in different coloursthe first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. So what? The trick was revealing said animalsAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to be. The lights in When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the pub changed colour every few minutes revealing a different set of creatures that reacted earth and their life returned to the sky. And that colouris why the earth and the sky are both revered. It was cool after a few shandies, but now you Only together can enjoy this process sober in a new book all about using coloured lenses they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to find hidden animals, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel SchefflerB0GHPMNF6P|title=Gruffalo Crumble How the Sky and Other Recipesthe Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5

|summary=It is hard Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to imagineeach other. First, but the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years agoearth created bodies. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling on. CertainlyAnd then, you can buy the book or sky breathed life into them. These were the sequelfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toysespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, cards, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea of how their bodies returned to push the Gruf earth and palstheir life returned to the sky. 2016 And that is why the year of earth and the recipe booksky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>and care for, both.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate Baker, Zanna Davidson and Page TsouStephanie Zabriskie|title=Highest Mountain, Deepest OceanHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=3.5

|summary=The greatest thing ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a good library can do is lie children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in waitNgorongoro, holding the weight of the entire world on its shelvesTanzania. Let alone all the imaginative fiction it can take guardianship of, it can also store '' The Maasai are a huge gamut of facts, opinions cattle-herding people and true tales, transporting a reader when they choose to take a book this story writes down and read it wherever its oral tradition explaining how they want came to gobe so. This book is one Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of those that can take you placesthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, too – 3.6 metres down into the earthand especially its women, where a Nile crocodile might have dug itself to lay out a drought, its heart beating twice a minute; or to with their cows and for the hottest or driest, or most rained-on placenatural world. It can take you back to prehistory and size you up against The oral tradition retelling the biggest raptors and other dinosaursmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, or to the centre of the very earth itselfdoes. There the pressure is akin to having the entire Empire State Building sat on your forehead – now that's weight indeed…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783704845</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Baker and Eleanor Taylor1839948493|title=Secrets A World of the SeaDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=3.5

|summary=When In the young are urged to explore the world around theminterests of full disclosure, we adults never state it, but thereI must tell you that I's m a huge section of the world they are quite unlikely to go investigating insucker for dogs. And for obvious reasons – it can be slightly dangerous even to enter itIn nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and while itI's huge it's not on every doorstepve loved most of them. I'm talking wish I felt the same about the ocean, of course – which is where books such as this come in to explain and illustrate the topichuman beings. With so much of it to be researched and encounteredSo, you never know – this any book might well inspire a pioneering discovery some time in the future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704349</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zoe Ingram|title=Press Out about dogs, I'm going to sit down and Colour: Birds|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Ten beautiful birds which start life as detailed line illustrations by Zoe Ingram are then coloured in by anyone of any age who is capable of having reasonable control of a felt-tip pen or a crayondevour. YouThen I've got m going to remember to do both the go back and the front and whilst it would be nice if they matched read it's in no way essentialproperly. If you're skillful, And so much the better, but the designs are decorated it was with foil which catches the light and gives that sheen which you see on the edges ''A World of birdsDogs' feathers. When you've finished colouring you gently press the pieces out from the page. I experimented , with pressing them out first and then colouring, but the pieces were easier ninety-six pages devoted entirely to colour actually in the page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857637673</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis|title=Botanicum (Welcome To The Museum)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover and I'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I wasmy four-legged friends. One of Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director accidental owner of Science at Kew Gardens: an American Dingo - she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in learned quite a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the contentlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson1529507987|title=My The Repair Shop Craft Book of Stories: Write Your Own Fairy Tales|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=Pity the child these days who never reads fairy tales. I love ''The irony in that, however, is that they may well be too busy watching Repair Shop''Frozen. It'' on repeat s my go-to programme when I want to read fairy talesbe cheered up. But read them After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they should're worth. You see, the value is in some form or another, what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and of one era or anotherthe memories they hold. They don't all have to go back No expense appears to be spared and the oldest collections, especially experts spend as they will like much time and effort as not be more gory than what, say, Disney or Ladybird Books put out in our youthis required to achieve the desired result. They can read a fairy tale from any age, then – Regular viewers know the experts and when they're done, all brilliant at explaining what it is they can easily turn to this book, which provides more than enough impetus for you to write your own're doing. Fairy tales do, as it happens, have the ability to last for centuries – but there's nothing quite like giving them a little tweak to get them up-to-date…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356428</amazonuk>But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harriet Russell024162343X|title= This Book Thinks You're a ScientistStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= ''This Book Thinks You're I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a Scientist'god' takes children through a whole world of scientific areas: forces and motions. Where was the proof? In history lessons, light, matter, sound, electricity and magnetismit was probably worse still. It encourages children Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to looklearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, ask questions and a have a gobut we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. This scienceLooking back, I still believe I was right -based activity book, published in association with but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the Science Museum, will stimulate and inspire young mindsproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah PattersonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=My Book of Stories: Write Your Own MythsFritz and Kurt

|summary=I don't know about you, but as a young child I was always looking ahead, not backwards. Musically, I could bear a few of my older brother'Britannica's records, but wanted to know what was released next week, never what was in Word of the charts of my parentDay's era. I think the same would have been said about my reading, and my interests – although that's only to has a certain extent. I donsub-title: 't think I'd have thanked you for pointing to my dinosaur books, right next 366 Elevating Utterances to my space Stretch Your Cranium and science fiction shelves, and I think ITickle Your Humerus''d have preferred which probably tells you all that you need to see the latest novel, rather than those books of myths I also enjoyedknow about this brilliant book. Myths? They It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''re, liketells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), oldgives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. But they I don't need much embellishment to be seen as great fun. The next step, however, to see them as something you yourself could write, well – thatthink I's ve ever encountered a bit greater. But it's one taken by this book, nevertheless.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356436</amazonuk>word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla Hallinan0711266204|title=The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World Secret Life of Beatrix PotterBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=I had have recently discovered a deprived childhoodgreat pleasure: I never knew Peter Rabbitsit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. HeAn hour can pass without my noticing. I'd have been at about his half century by ve established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the time feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I could was more knowledgeable. It would have been reading himwonderful if, as a child, but books at home didnI't go beyond Enid Blyton. Peter was drawing his old age pension by the time that I discovered him when my daughter fell in love with him and - in her turn - read them d had access to her own children thirty years later. Hea book such as ''s well past his century now and still delighting children The Secret Life of all ages: he's accessible and relatable and I canBirds't recollect ever meeting a child who didn't have a soft spot for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241289653</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=My Encyclopedia Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Very Important ThingsGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary= Depending on the curiosity level of your child, you may start 'Germs' seems to hate the have become a catch-all word why. Why is to cover anything unpleasant which has the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? Why, why, why, why! I can suggest potential to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligentyou ill. The problem is that kids are canny little things. SoIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, rather than trying OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to download the entirety world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the internet into your head, get your child their own first encyclopaedia, something thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist''My Encyclopedia which explains some of Very Important Things'the trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Mariadiamantes1800464495|title=Little People, Big Dreams100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Amelia EarhartSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Amelia Earhart was ''Babies seem to be born just before with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the end womb, being aware of the nineteenth century but she would become the quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most famous female pilot of 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 twentiethsame way about maths, having first become interested 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 planes when she went to an airshow when she was daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just nineteenas beneficial. }} Shortly afterwards {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a pilot gave her a ride in a biplane 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 moment on she knew that she had for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to flyseem like laziness. There had Being up early, working late has been precursors praised and the ability to this obsession though: when she was a survive on little girl she like sleep has almost become something to imagine that she could stretch her wings and fly like a birdput on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808859</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Bate1849767343|title=Peter in PerilCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet PeterThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. He hasnIt isn't got : it's a brilliant life, by modern standards – always getting into trouble, and playing some form hymn of football with coat buttons, but with a loving nanny and parentspraise to maths. The trouble is that he is living in Budapest, and while Peter understands nothing about the outside worldIt's problems as yet, he about why maths is about to see what happens when the Nazis take controlso wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life. And, in these graphic novel-styled pages, so are we…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095957X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Raman Prinja1849767009|title=50 Things You Should Know About SpaceIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Space This 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 a cold OK and desolate place, but learning about it does not need to be. Nothing else quite captures the immensity ones who ''know'' that is Space – all it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the stars hot-and planets out there that could contain alien life-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. How can you capture this majesty and put But... Rosie Haines makes it onto into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a page so that you inspire the youth celebration of today to be the astronauts bodies: bodies large and small and astronomers of tomorrow? every possible hue. A series of dry Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact is perhaps not the best option, unless they happen to be a very specific type of child're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford1776572858|title=This is Not How Do You Make a Science Book: A Smart Art Activity BookBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'This is Not d get me a Science Book'' explores book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the often-overlooked link between science and creativity. This interactive book encourages readers to get cuttingbasics, glueing, twisting, colouring in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and shading in order to create a variety of at-home experiments I was told that are it wouldn't be discussed any further as entertaining as they are educationalit ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidays Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laura Barwick1526362759|title=Animal BabiesDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=LetWhat 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's face ve managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: with we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a fluffy lion cub on the coverclever shopper, inviting readers to take a peek insidesaver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, only the most hard-hearted of individuals could resist the temptation to pick up ''Animal Babiesreally'' want to explore the further delights within its pagesbuy. Once hooked, There's also the reader is rewarded with a visual feast possibility of adorable baby creatures, each page seemingly cuter than using to do good in the lastworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Arty BookApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Arty is your creative friend. He is It's fifty years since the star of this art activity book Apollo 13 mission was launched from Nikalas Catlow and David Sinden. He's a bit brusque on the first page. This is Arty announces a bigKennedy Space Centre in Florida, black arrowbut the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. And Arty commands, Colour me ''Survival in. Who could resist? Because Arty Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a winsome little figure with nutty, curly hair and great big red glassesbrilliant retelling of what happened. On the cover, those red glasses spell book and they look unruly and exciting, don't you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870665</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=CoderDojoKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeNine 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. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|summary=The Nanonauts want a website for their bandBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and who better to build it for them than vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbookbest, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundationworst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, children of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTMLput on art shows, dance performances, CSS food festivals and Javascript. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything concerts to you - all will be made clear as you read through stun the booksenses. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativityAnd towering above it all, learning how the most popular and the most hated monument to code - French accomplishment and daring – the benefits of teamworkEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1848576536|title=In FocusHumanatomy: 101 Close UpsHow 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, Crossand 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-Sections from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and Cutawaysdigestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Langford_Emily|title=Emily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Only recently IEmily found words ''useful''ve had reason to applaud a children, but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's non-fiction book for concentrating on showing its audience what they have no hope limit to see – how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in that case, twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the underground and underwater worldslist were even numbers, from the shallowest plant roots to but the deepest oceanic explorations other half was odd and everything it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in betweenthrees which she called ''threeven''. Other unseen worlds are all around us(Actually, however – this confused me a little bit at first as they're what goes on on the inside of things – inside a pocket watch (remember them?), inside a yurt, a space shuttle, a volcano, a toilet… This pleasant square block subset of book not only gives us the outside image and odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a caption, but the full story subset of the innardseven numbers, meaning the young reader is certainly going where they've never been before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184857505X</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Nanonauts want What a website for their band, and who better treat! I really did mean to build it for them than just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the CoderDojo network pull of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children sounds of seven plus will learn how a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to build resist on a website using HTML, CSS cold and Javascriptrather wet February morning. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all will be made clear as you read through about the bookbirds and listening to their song. There's also information about how to start a CoderDojo Nano club with friends Then - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativity, learning how to code just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the benefits of teamworksecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael BrightPankhurst_Women|title=See Inside Dinosaurs Fantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=What would you do if the doorbell rang A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and when you opened the door you saw a giant Trojan-Horse waiting for you? I for one would not drag the thing politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in; it would be too big and could be full of angry Greekshistory at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. The same could be said of Of course, this isn''See inside Dinosaurs'' by Michael Bright. You may think that you t true and there are buying one thingplenty of women who, but instead you are getting an impressive triceratops skeletonthroughout history, have achieved amazing things or a T-Rex modelshown incredible bravery, or maybe even a created something never seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture bookfrom Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934739</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Damn those bees''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. TheyIt celebrates a century and a half of the development of women're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world s sport by looking at alarming ratesfifty of its highest achievers, and the otherscovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, like butterflies and mothsskating, are actually runners-up to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plants. Plus they're much more visually attractive. But even though Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book has two nudges somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pages. What stands out is the superlative contentstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= National Geographic KidsRooney_Dino|title= Angry Birds Playground: Atlas (Angry Birds Playgrounds)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Angry Birds Playground'' is a new educational book series based on a geographical theme. Rovio-the team responsible for the popular game- have teamed up with National Geographic Kids to create a stunning set of books that perfectly blend the cheeky humour from the game with informative text and breathtaking real-world photography. The series will appeal to young fans of the game and anyone who has an interest in the wonders of the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426324596</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Joe Archer Anne Rooney and Caroline Craig|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatSuzanne Carpenter|rating=54

|summary=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I grew up in the immediate post war period. Growing your own vegetables had been a necessity in the war and it was still a habit for those who had a bit child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of gardendinosaurs, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' was we meet a real pleasure for mevariety of creatures, as well as a touch some of nostalgia. The principle is whom are very simple: show children how familiar but some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to grow their own vegetables , with background noises, roars and then how squawks to transform accompany them into delicious food. It sounds simple, doesn't it? Well, it might come as ! The book creates a surprisedinosaur experience, but rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Haslam and Steve Parker|title= A Journey Through Nature|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Beautifully presentedvery visual, this is a book that takes a worldwide look at placing the natural world, dinosaurs in both urban their habitats and rural locations. We start off in the city, looking at pigeons, the American racoon, the Australian possum and the South American Marmoset. I learnt 3 things from those first two pages, including what Kits are, how long babies live with the possum mothers and the pregnancy traits of the monkeys. We were off to a good startgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934496</amazonuk>