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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoZabriskie1|title=Life on EarthA Village Where Many Ways Meet: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions A Story of Belonging and 70 Lift-flaps!Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps ''Across many African and bounds. We've got Indigenous systems, differences in touch with them perhaps being feathered, and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesighthow children learn, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stopsense , and or process the next generation will need world were not treated as disorders to be on board with the job corrected. They were understood as natural variations of discovering themhuman intelligence and awareness, analysing them, and presenting them to each holding value within the community.'' This lovely story is a world synthesis of that never seems to get enough of the nastytradition, superlative beasties which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind human beings but by a range of person people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to ask questions, you may well ask 'how do you get a whole that next generation ready for their place in the field combines them all and in the laboratory?' I would put this as to the answer – even if it is made itself benefit of a hundred questionsthem all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoB0GFQ81YQK|title=Life on How the Sky and the EarthMade People: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=We're constantly being asked 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 save somethingeach other. Save First, the hedgerowsearth created bodies. And then, save the elephant, save our seassky breathed life into them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger than These were the others, first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and more demandingremembered, but especially how they are all worthycame to be. But seeing as it's (a) When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the largest land feature we need earth and their life returned to save, the sky. And that is why the earth and (b) it's the most worthwhile sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to save, why not just go and care for , both.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GHPMNF6P|title=How the jugular – Sky and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugular, you'll be saving Earth Made People: From the jaguar; youOral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=Children'll be protecting s Non-Fiction|summary= Before people came and joined the source of a lot of our foodanimals, spices there was only the sky and medicines – the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and when did a hedgerow near you have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. And then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first step humans and they belonged to saving anything is both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how they came to understand itbe. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to let us appreciate it, the earth and this primer their life returned to the sky. And that is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can deem them worthwhilethey create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and care for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsStephanie Zabriskie|title=Iggy PeckHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=5|genre=Children's Big Project Book Non-Fiction|summary=''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, have with their cows and for Amazing Architectsthe natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Out In the interests of all the things full disclosure, I must tell you that I wanted to be as 'm a child, an architect was not one of themsucker for dogs. Which is a shameIn nearly eight decades, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my belt, and even if 've never met one I hadndidn't exactly progressed at that trust and I might have been more at ease at those stupid team-bonding 'build-a-this-or-that' exercises you are sometimes forced to undergo as an adultve loved most of them. I never knew wish I would ever hold felt the same about human beings. So, any importance in my ability book about dogs, I'm going to draw buildings, conceptualise towns sit down and create model structures of my own creations – partly because devour. Then I knew I had no ability'm going to go back and read it properly. But for the likes And so it was with ''A World of Iggy PeckDogs'', the whole idea is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings and how with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to improve on the ones he knowsmy four-legged friends. And so, for Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the duration accidental owner of your engagement with these pages, will youan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun1529507987|title=My First Wild Activity The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=You sit down together as a family and ask your child what they would like to read from your bulging bookcase. Will they choose the timeless classic that you yourself read as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nope. Neither of these. All you will hear is I love ''The Repair Shop'Stickers!'. It' s my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. Your child would rather play with After a sticker activity book hard day, there's nothing better than read with you, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity bookwatching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki|title= Scientist Academy: Are You Ready For see, the Challenge?|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Kids seem value is in what these possessions are worth to have an innate curiosity about the world around people who own themand the memories they hold. They are constantly asking ''How?'' No expense appears to be spared and ''Why?'' Curious kids the experts spend as much time and budding scientists are going effort as is required to love achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the new experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is they'Scientist Academy'' book by Ivy Kids, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twistre doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones024162343X|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Iwas the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 've a problem with many colouring books for children: some initial effort goes into god'. Where was the colouringproof? In history lessons, but the chances are that little will be kept on a long-term basis and it's not particularly satisfyingwas probably worse still. How Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much better would it want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be if called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the colouring produced something which could army had to be sent to someone elsethere in the first place. Looking back, who would appreciate I still believe I was right - but I regret that itI lacked the maturity to approach 's unique and that effort and care has gone into the card? problem' politely. How much better to give a child something like I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and RainbowsStolen History'' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephan LompJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Wilfred Fritz and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseKurt

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Meet Wilfred We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and Osbert. They're not only the kind their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to completely flout do – kicking things around the rules of empty market place, helping the natural history explorer's club they belong toneighbours, but being dutiful when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are it comes to the kind to fight tooth synagogue choir and claw at a vocational school. Kurt has to be make sure the first to lay claim to it alone, lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and devil take the other oneworkmanlike as a light switch. What they don't know But this is that the drama that ensues when theytime just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler're tailing this particular specimen s will involve no end , and instead of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by having a lionnational vote to keep the Nazis out, crashing a hot air balloon one of invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just so happened as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to have in Britain or the US, while Fritz and his pocket… Thisfather are, thenunknown initially to each other, is a fun packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman1913750353|title=Hidden World: Forest|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenBritannica's Non-Fiction |summary=Sometimes, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get a grip on Word of the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDay|author=Robert Hegarty Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Marcelo Badari|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistorySue Macy|rating=3.5

|summary=While it''Britannica's always useful for Word of the Day'' has a child sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to have access to an atlas, so they know where they are Stretch Your Cranium and what there is in every other location, itTickle Your Humerus''s equally important which probably tells you all that they you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''whenRazzmatazz'' they are, and what has happened at any other place in time. Thattells you how to pronounce it ('s the ethos behind this ''Time Atlasraz-muh-TAZ''), which only has gives you a few spreads, but takes us right back to prehistory, through definition and then includes the birth of civilisation, word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and up to today – as well as asking frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a few questions of what might happen in word which uses the future. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland0711266204|title=Festivals The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and CelebrationsVivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Every day is I have recently discovered a feast day, if you follow great pleasure: I sit and watch the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to itvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. But thatI's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – ve established which species feed from the world is host to a whole lot moreground, and in every corner they have their own way of celebrating. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat which pop to guide the visiting spirits feeders for a quick snatch of the deceased back to their post-life homes; some rejoice food and who settles in the return of spring, or the bounties of the summer's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each otherfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. But the world has It would have been wonderful if, as a ritual calendar of events such as thesechild, and this is I'd had access to a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can besuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma Trithart0192779230|title=Myths and LegendsVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Mythology is 'Germs' seems to have become a peculiar realm, when catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you think about it – not quite legendill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and not just Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the religions world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the dead civilisations, thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but something Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a mixture of the two. Certainly scientist' which explains some of the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe they were true, even if they didntrickiest concepts and you't fit into any pattern of organised worship. But seeing as it is the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologiesll soon be familiar with bacteria, it's vital for the young to have some grounding in the subjectfungi, protists and viruses – and this book is pretty good at providing suchhow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1800464495|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue Mission100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=This ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of 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 horrific worldstrong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' 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. Monsters leer over all But do we think the mountain topssame way about maths, therebeyond counting? I don's a giant octopus 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 one building daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a green giantsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{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 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's arms coming through the windows of another, ve got loads to be doing) and everywhere you look someone has lost somethingothers will worry unnecessarily. Luckily Most people, from children to adults will have the Dinosaur Detective odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is on hand only likely to helpmake it worse. YesAnd there's also the fact that for far too long, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on the controls lack of his flying machine, he is able sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to visit all eleven zonesseem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and find the five things requested of him in eachability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik1849767343|title= Girling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses Count on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMe|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantMiguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=Ten reasons The title and format of this book might lead you to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, Ithink that it've never needed ten reasons as theys either about responsibility - or it've always been my favourite large animal, s a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the gentle giants of Africa and India, but it was good to find out more about themnumbers journey. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothersIt isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths. Female elephants It's about why maths is so wonderful and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one how you meet it in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people tooeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill1849767009|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of LondonIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=The history This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to choir': the eleventh century and since then only people who'll buy it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of are the Tower people who know that nudity is told within this bookOK and the ones who ''know''s pages, only this time that it's told by shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the ravens that live theresupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. They are the Tower It's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all a celebration of London will fall should they be removed, bodies: bodies large and small and after centuries of watching over the Tower every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they have their own version of history to tell're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hutton1776572858|title=Cool PhysicsHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=If you arenIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't entirely sure d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a phrase such pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources. I ''knew''more, donbut was little ''wiser't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motionThankfully, and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, and all of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in the world of physics is very much neededtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1526362759|title=Stella GurneyDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Matthew Hodson and Neave ParkerSpend It, Grow It, Give It|titleauthor=The Prehistoric TimesRashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=2.5

|summary=With the ability What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to read the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channels, the days acquire more of the newspaper appear it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to be coming get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to an endsome extent. You could say that they are going might want to go into business, be extinct, much like the dinosaurs. Soa clever shopper, if newspapers are a thing of the past saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and so are dinosaursthere might be something you really, it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case and ''The Prehistoric Timesreally''want to buy. There' covers several different eras on s also the hunt for only possibility of using to do good in the best news and viewsworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham178112938X|title=Around the World Colouring BookSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colourIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but in the dash to appeal to story of that journey remains one of the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational greatest survival stories of all time. ''andSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page of pictures to colour (with just is a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction brilliant retelling of four pages of stickerswhat happened. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Roberts Kathleen Boucher and Alan MacDonaldSara Chadwick|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|summary=OhBrash and elegant, to be young sophisticated, controversial and innocentvibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and to be full of questionscultures. Questions like 'is eating my bogies good for me'The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, or 'why is poo brown'dance performances, or 'what makes sweat smell'. You don't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want food festivals and concerts to know stun the answers – respectivelysenses. And towering above it all, no; it's down the most popular and the most hated monument to dead bacteria; French accomplishment and it doesn't daring – it's other bacteria again. If you think you have a lad (or, let's face it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turnEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin1848576536|title=GrowHumanatomy: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and VegJem Maybank|rating=5

|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow''Get under your own skin, it saidpick your brains, ''A family guide to growing fruit and veggo inside your insides!''. Why did it worry me? Well, it That's a mere 48 pages and the cover says that it includes what ''Games, stickers and MORE!Humanatomy'' I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need invites you to know about growing fruit do and veghonestly, so wasnI don't this going to fall a little short? Well, it doesn't - not at allsee how you could resist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and Make|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect that you get when This informative book provides a really talented face artist does a young child's face and you ''see'' wonderful primer about the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, human body to curious children- from the rainforest regions of skeletal system to the worldmuscular system via circulation, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-respiration and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boa. Never heard of some of them? Welldigestion, don't worry: right up to the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creatureDNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn CrambLangford_Emily|title=National Trust: Complete Night ExplorerEmily's KitNumbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=There is a misfortune to the modern worldEmily found words ''useful'', in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I but counting was a ladwhat she loved best. Nowadays light pollution is so awful itObviously, you can count anything and there's certainly not uncommon for people no limit to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellationshow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting', it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and stargaze is a dying oneeven numbers. Elsewhere Then she began counting in threes: half of the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore list were even numbers, but the night-time nature as other half was odd and it was this book suggests – it begins with setting up a tent list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in your back garden, and too many donthrees which she called ''threeven''t even get that chance, for want of possession of one. Yes(Actually, if this book is only read once in confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of the daytime and never referred odd numbers but sound as though they ought to again, due to lack be a subset of opportunitythe even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really will be a crying shamethought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Goldie Hawk Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and Rachael Saunderslistening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Pankhurst_Women|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comfortsA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Always have beenSometimes, always will – and creature comforts don't involve snuggling down it feels almost as though there were no women in a sleeping bag, however comfortablehistory at all, let alone ones young girls might like to watch creatures, as far read about or regard as I'm concernedrole models. LuckilyOf course, however, many people this isn't true and there are plenty of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and aboutwomen who, throughout history, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at themhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and spending time out of doors for the hell of itor created something never seen before. This So here, in this wonderful picture book is from Kate Pankhurst, are the first stage to that, and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doorstories of some of them. And even if it's your ''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us NowIgnotofsky_Sport|title=The Story of the CarWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the young me to have Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelves. Most half of course I lost interest in with maturity. But the young child these days wondevelopment of women't be much differents sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, for good or badskating, and so they will like as not want much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book about broom-brooms for the shelfsomewhere. And this Each entry is pretty much the goa double-to volume for such an interestpage spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby WaldenRooney_Dino|title=In Focus: CitiesDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

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