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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non-fiction==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RobinsonB0GFQ81YQK|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Wonders - World War IIMalagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
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|summary=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders is an informativeBefore people came and joined the animals, easy to read book for children covering WW2there was only the sky and the earth. I would describe it as something of a cross between a school text book Everything was quiet until the earth and Terry Deary's Horrible Histories series - as much as I am certain Mr Deary would shudder at the thought of any of his books being crossed with a text booksky began to tal to each other. This isn't quite factsFirst, facts and nothing but the factsearth created bodies. And then, it does break things up with humourthe sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, but I would describe this as book meant especially how they came to teach historybe. When they grew old and died, unlike Deary's books which I would describe as books which make reading funtheir bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and just happen to inform children on history as wellcare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227689</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the pages of sky and the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] bookearth. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for Everything was quiet until the rest of earth and the booksky began to tal to each other. First, pointing out some of the most gruesome moments in historyearth created bodies. After some classic gallows humour and a brief mention of Vlad And then, the Impaler we begin sky breathed life into them. These were the tour with ancient Mesopotamiafirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. The book includes the AssyriansAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, Sumeriansespecially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish their bodies returned to the earth and Americanstheir life returned to the sky. It also covers several different periods of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20's, And that is why the first earth and second world warsthe sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulerscare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DearyStephanie Zabriskie|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead of his time. He was writing books that boys really wanted 'How Maasai Women Spoke to read many years before Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all the efforts to close the ever widening gender gap oral traditions of Maasai elders in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to readNgorongoro, but the older copies do show their ageTanzania. Progress has been made in the way books '' The Maasai are printed a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 yearsbe so. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ''20 Horrible Years'Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn' has addressed this issue and makes t tell the books not only whole story of the type of books that boys want to readintimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, but also have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the type of book that younger children or those many conversations Maasai women have had with reading difficulties can readtheir cows, does.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>B0G9WTGY6J
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1839948493|title=Awful Egyptians (Horrible Histories)A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Facts, facts and nothing but In the facts'' - if this is your idea interests of a history book - stop right here. Terry Dearyfull disclosure, I must tell you that I's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in m a well laid out easy to follow mannersucker for dogs. But Terry Deary did not intend to write the Horrible History as history books In nearly eight decades, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far more history than he originally intended, but they remain a collection of amusing stories I've never met one I didn't trust and jokes, rather than a collection I've loved most of dry factsthem. Deary never intended his books to be used to teach history - in fact I wish I felt the mere mention of this really sets him offsame about human beings. He set out to write books that children wanted to read So, books that are both engaging and entertainingany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and whether he intended it as such or not - he has created a series which truly engages boys long before this concept became populardevour. Very few children pick up a book because they want Then I'm going to learn about historygo back and read it properly. Children pick up Deary And so it was with 's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language 'A World of authority and the adult worldDogs'', but in a as cowith ninety-conspirator. They read his books because they are fun, but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant six pages devoted entirely to them, they actually do learn this as wellmy four-legged friends. What Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for learned quite a history quizlot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1529507987|title=Measly Middle Ages The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Horrible HistoriesIllustrator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love ''The Horrible Histories series is a favourite with both schools and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be used in educationcheered up. He originally set out to write After a joke bookhard day, based on a historical subjectthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, but freed from the constraints of school - he discovered value is in what so many of us have also found - history really is funthese possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. Instead of a joke book with a bit of history, Deary ended up with a history book - with quite a lot of jokes. But these books were never intended as educational texts, they were written No expense appears to entertain, be spared and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just that, it entertains both children the experts spend as much time and adults. It effort as is difficult required to read any of Dearyachieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they's books without learning something, but learning re all brilliant at explaining what it is incidental - the fun comes firstthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson024162343X|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One day Maxi wanders I was the bad company other people got into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Boleroat school. He encounters most I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves from instrument to instrument'god'. Eventually he falls asleep on Where was the stageproof? In history lessons, tired out by the excitement of his adventuresit was probably worse still. He wakes to a loud booming noise as Not too long after the beginning end of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is playedWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and he finds that occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the orchestra is army had to be there in concert. He scuttles down into a packed auditoriumthe first place. At the end of the concertLooking back, Maximus joins in I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the standing ovation which precedes maturity to approach 'the stirring home-grown encoreproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Truth About LoveFritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=We are never too far from springtimestart with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, whendoing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, of coursehelping 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 Orthodox neighbours''young maneach Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using 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 fancy lightly turns will, and instead of having a national vote to thoughts of lovekeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht''happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young people's fancies These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to trivia about love customshear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, predictions of who they'll marry while Fritz and what his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the whole symbolism around love, Valentines same train to Buchenwald and marriage meanthe stone quarry there. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited And us wondering how the titular event for the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell nice.adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss1913750353|title=Alphasaurs Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Other Prehistoric TypesSue Macy|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I suppose ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you could describe any book need to know about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the making. What is definite is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnightbrilliant book. After a suitably clever, rhyming introduction, we enter the world of prehistory It starts on January 1st with A''Razzmatazz'', and exit with Z, having met 27 tells you how to pronounce it (yes''raz-muh-TAZ''), there's gives you a surprise guest entrant) animals along definition and then includes the wayword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. And I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Dilger0711266204|title=Wild Town The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (RSPBillustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Would you like to know what about I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the thriving wildlife in Britainvast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I's towns and cities? What natural riches are out thereve established which species feed from the ground, if only you know where (and how) which pop to look? ''Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desert, grasslands, wetlands, forests, scrub, caves - the book describes animals, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and some plants, to be found who settles in each. You'll be amazed at what's out there. And you'll find out a lot about for a teeming natural world right on your doorstepgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It will tell you the best places to spot animals and plants - andwould have been wonderful if, as a child, thanks I'd had access to the wonderful photography, youa book such as 'll have no trouble recognising them once you're there. From the iconic foxes and badgers to the less well known species The Secret Life of bird, amphibian and insect, itBirds''s all there in all its diversity and beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele0192779230|title=Discover the Awesome Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible Worldof Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Back in 2011 I was impressed by [[Discover 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]potential to make you ill. I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. It would have had the first book in what looks to be a lot more textvery promising new series, been rather dull – OUP and remained largely unread by those who received it as Isabel Thomas have provided a worthy present, but with that book you needed clear and accessible introduction to start at the opposite end world of the scalegerms. It's We get an informed look at how people originally thought about visual impact. A fact is linked to a picture diseases and the more striking the better – what they thought caused them and only then is it explained. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives how the point home as quickly as possiblethinking has developed over time. The layout encourages you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and vocabulary can read the words. Itbe confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's fun and (say it quietly) itspeak like a scientist's educational. Now I'm not in which explains some of the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that trickiest concepts and you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome Worldll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Martin1800464495|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool 100 Ways in 100 Days to Remember StuffTeach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I look back on my school days it didn't 'Babies seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping to be born with I'm ''amazed'' at all that they have to remember. They need to have methods of jogging their memories. 'Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy' gives them lots of ways of remembering a rich variety of factsan amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, but also shows them how they can develop their own ways being aware of helping their memory. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymesquantities at seven hours old, acrosticsassessing probability at six months old, stories, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms and wordplaycomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. It's not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts in with the methods.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</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=Fiona Foden1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look and Feel FabulousSleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that this is 2020 has been a book about how to be gorgeous, but she goes on to explain that this isn't just about having glossy hair, great skin and a wonderful dress (although she does admit strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that these help)statement. It's Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about looking amazing, but still being yousleep problems. ItSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s about having confidence in who you are needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and having a positive energy about youothers will worry unnecessarily. It's about having great friends - and ''being'' a great friendMost people, in fact being from children to adults will have the sort odd bad night but worrying about your lack of person that everyone wants sleep is only likely to knowmake it worse. She promises And there's also the fact that most for far too long, lack of what she suggests is not going sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to break the Bank - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free and it's all easyseem like laziness. So how does it live Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to the promises?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz Murphy1849767343|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A to ZCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I hope that children are not as fearful The title and format of going this book might lead you to the dentist as used regularly to be the case, but even think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those who are unworried will benefit from this useful book directed mainly at just starting out on the five to ten age group, although Inumbers journey. It isn'm sure that older children will find t: it 's a hymn of interest toopraise to maths. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but donIt't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>s about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen1849767009|title=Fantastic Mr DahlIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Reading this book 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 rather OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like curling up in a deep, squishy armchair with a cup of cocoa they avoid the hot-and some squashed-fly biscuits while bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a favourite uncle chats to you book about booksnot wearing clothes. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahl It's life, a celebration of bodies: bodies large and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writing, secure in the knowledge that you already know small and love the storiesof every possible hue. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time to time to ask your opinion — Bodies with disabilities and itmarkings. They's clear here fine. In fact, they's really interested in your answerre wonderful. Do you prefer the original version of ''James and the Giant Peach'', or the one which was eventually published? Can you imagine how funny it would be to see your grandfather looking in through your bedroom window, like the BFG?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141322136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner1776572858|title=The Comic Strip Book of DinosaursHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=35|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=If It's more than sixty years since I asked you all to put your hands up if you had how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a dinosaur book as about it. A couple of days later I was handed a youth pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and Iwas told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''d feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years and survived several readings, and I'm sure that's not unique - plusknew'' more, over the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, to make the books more accuratebut was little ''wiser''. Here thenThankfully, for the 5-9s, is a primer of prehistory, and one such as the young me never hadtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various1526362759|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes What a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (merelief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, on the other handwhy it matters, I love books full how to acquire more of wordsit (nope - robbing banks is out) and puts a colourful and fun spin on what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Because if you’re having Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to look up how some extent. You might want to spell go into business, be a wordclever shopper, or what a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something meansyou really, it helps ''really'' want to have pages with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted with presents and hearts and starsbuy. That’s not to say There's also the dictionary isn’t clear and easy possibility of using to read because it certainly is: the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pages, and do good in the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pagesworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross178112938X|title=A Horrid FactbookSurvival in Space: FoodThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=For a horrid child our Henry has acquired a lot of facts, you know and the latest of his Horrid Fact Books is about food. It follows the usual format of quick-fire facts liberally accompanied by brilliant illustrations from Tony Ross. The book's divided into chapters which are just fifty years since the right length to appeal to Apollo 13 mission was launched from the emerging reader and to give a regular feel-good buzz when there's another chapter under Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the belt. With ninety-nine pages story of that journey remains one of text there's enough to give the sense greatest survival stories of having read all time. ''a bookSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' but without it being too much is a brilliant retelling of a trial. It ticks all the boxes as an early readerwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006339</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick
|title=Nine Ways to Empower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1609809173|title=Tony RobinsonEiffel's Weird World of Wonders: RomansTower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:Category:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this beforeBrash and elegant, for he was doing sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before s Fair in Paris encompassed the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly mannerbest, the worst and this second book takes us in a primary school curriculum-suiting way into the world of Romebeautiful from many countries and cultures. A lot is in these books, The French Republic laid out model villages from trivia for all ages (I didn't knowtheir colonies, put on art shows, or had forgottendance performances, that food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all those Julius Caesar reliefs and statues are of him in a wig as he was bald), to the delectable gross-out (most popular and the posh man's cuisine) most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the foregrounding of the obvious difference between them and us (in a word, slavery)Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533894</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Robinson1848576536|title=Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Egyptians|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You could be mistaken for thinking [[:CategoryHumanatomy:Tony Robinson|Tony Robinson]] had written books like this before, for he was doing 'Horrid History'-style TV programmes before the official ones were made. This series fits so well into his erudite yet family audience-friendly manner, and this launching book takes us to the strangest of worlds - yet one only a museum visit away, that of the ancient Egyptians. A lot is in these pages - complete with adult stuff glossed over (just how in-bred '''were''' those Ptolemys?!), the gross-out being relished (making mummies, and some alleged Egyptian medicines) and the obvious differences between them and us foregrounded so we can empathise with them (and at How the same time remember it's harder for most of us to sleep on our roofs than they would have found it).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533878</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBody Works|author=Kathleen King|title=Make Nicola Edwards and Do: BakeJem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I love the idea of kids cooking. There's going to be mess, probably a bit of waste and you're going to have to bite Get under your tongue an awful lotown skin, but it really is the most amazing fun. Best of allpick your brains, though - from an early age kids learn that they can and go into the kitchen and make something which they can eat. They doninside your insides!'t need to go to the shops and buy a ready meal or to a takeaway for junk food. They can make something themselves. It's a life skill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849154384</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard BrasseyLangford_Emily|title=The QueenEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Those of us whoEmily found words ''useful''ve been around for longer than the Queen has been on the throne tend to forget that not everyone knows about her history or who-is-who in the family, but counting was what she loved best. Richard Brassey has set out to remedy that with this easy-readObviously, almost comic-style book about Her Majesty you can count anything and there's lots no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in there twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the way of fascinating informationlist were even numbers, some fun facts but the other half was odd and (Iit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''ll confess!) a few anecdotes which left me chuckling, sometimes with and sometimes... er (Actually, well, I think wethis confused me a little bit at first as they'll gloss over that bitre a subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the even numbers, but let me say that this book is not at it all sycophantic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001272</amazonuk>worked out well when I really thought about it.)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher EdgePankhurst_Women|title=How to Make Money: Smart Ways to Make MillionsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Most kids seem to feel that they could do with more money A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and short of the parentals coughing up the dosh they have to find some way of earning politicians. Sometimes, it for themselves. Christopher Edge has some ideas which feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might appeal in ''How like to Make Money'read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't true and there are plenty of women who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, with its particularly eye-catching sub-title ''Smart Ways to make MILLIONS''or created something never seen before. Now I rather thought (hoped) that the last bit might be hyperboleSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, fearing that are the country might be over-run by a flood stories of some of teenage millionaires, but read on..them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129651</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen BlumenthalIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Steve JobsWomen in Sport: The Man Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Thought DifferentPlayed to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at 'Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a Stanford College graduation ceremony, century and a half of the three stories he told the studentsdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, about connecting the dots, love and losscovering sports as diverse as swimming, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' lifefencing, his successes and his failuresriding, his passions and his idealsskating, and his infamously polarized personalitymuch more. The author actively annotates the backstory Think of Jobs with references from this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, a sport and Jobs' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his storypioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Jobs' achievements are incredible Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and they're not simply down to his genius, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charismaa striking portrait. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily HawkinsRooney_Dino|title=IllusionologyDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If there Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a prize for the most lavish book received here at Bookbag Towers for review, this would definitely be on the shortlistchild. A lovely large format hardback, the cover is a delight itself - This one comes with a 3D lenticular imagesounds! Taking us layer by layer, embossed bitsthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a plastic gem stuck in it... And inside there variety of creatures, some of whom are packets very familiar but some I'd never heard of goodies to before! Each scene peels open and explore, making this more of a literary toy than a book. The book aims to introduce layer by layer, showing you what the cleverer child various dinosaurs are getting up to the wonders of stagecraft and magic, with background noises, roars and so here are props for some tricks for you squawks to doaccompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, some instructions for other illusions of your ownrather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, and a historical guide to how placing the masters of dinosaurs in their trade did ithabitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772084</amazonuk>
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