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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dougal DixonB0GFQ81YQK|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayHow 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=The book starts with a simple questionBefore 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 each other. First, the earth created bodies. How would we copeAnd then, the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, especially how would dinosaurs cope if they had not become extinct came to be. When they grew old and were around today? They're put in contextdied, going back their bodies returned to the beginnings of Planet Earth four earth and a half billion years ago and working forward their life returned to show how life evolved the sky. And that is why the earth and asking if the skills the dinosaurs developed would allow them sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to survive today. The four groups of dinosaurs - plant-eaters, meat-eatersand care for, ocean-dwellers and flying reptiles - are then looked at in some detailboth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848985762</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrB0GHPMNF6P|title=Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of How the Life Sky and Work of Judith Kerr|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=In children's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliable, but always impressive. One of those names is [[:Categorythe Earth Made People:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]. For decades she's been delighting our children (and grandchildren) but it still came as something of a surprise to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013. To celebrate this, Harper Collins have published ''Creatures'' in which Judith tells not just her own story but that of From the ''creatures'' - the characters in her books and her family - who have contributed to her inspirational life. It is, though, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection Oral Stories of paintings, drawings and memorabilia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMalagasy Elders|author=Sharky and George|title=Don't You DareStephanie Zabriskie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Older readers like myself may recognise a great many of Sharky Before people came and George's ideas from our own childhood gamesjoined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, in the days when children's games usually did take place outdoorsearth created bodies. Most of us will have played games like torch tag (which is enemy spotlight in this book)And then, cops the sky breathed life into them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and robbersthey planted and learned and remembered, boxes with a pen especially how they came to be. When they grew old and paper, made drip sand castlesdied, skimmed a stone or built a dam in childhood. So you might ask - why do need a book their bodies returned to teach us games we already know how the earth and their life returned to play? The sad fact the sky. And that is, most of these games why the earth and the sky are rapidly being forgottenboth revered. I rarely see children other than my own play any type of tag or hide Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and seek gamescare for, both.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258292</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|author=Stephanie Zabriskie
|title=How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders
|rating=5
|genre=Children's 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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Punk Science1839948493|title=Do Try This at Home: Cook It!!A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I''Do Try This At Home - Cook It!!'' is m a fun, very boy friendly ( but not just sucker for boys) cookbook combining very basic recipes, science facts and a few science experiments with fooddogs. Not every recipe in this book includes science facts and in some the science bit is limited to mentioning vitamins or giving us a very simple fact like the fact a tomato is a fruit In nearly eight decades, or a water chestnut isnI've never met one I didn't really a nut. But other recipes have quite a bit trust and I've loved most of scientific informationthem. For instance this will tell you why cooking makes an egg hard, but makes cheese softerI wish I felt the same about human beings. Children will learn what an emulsion is So, why onions make us cryany book about dogs, how yeast worksI'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', how with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to make a bouncing rubbermy four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo -like egg and how to make a colour changing cabbage solution that will tell if she's learned quite a substance is acid or alkalinelot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205537</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Murphy1529507987|title=Super Geek, Dinosaurs, Brains The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and SupertrainsSonia Albert (Illustrator)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Super GeekI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, Dinosaursthere's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, Brains and Supertrains the value is divided into eight sections. The first four sections in what these possessions are questions on dinosaurs worth to the people who own them and prehistoric life, the human brain, memories they hold. natural disasters No expense appears to be spared and finally transport. The following four sections are the experts spend as much longer time and provide not only the answers effort as is required to achieve the previous sections' questions, but a detailed, scientific explanation in clear easy to understand language that even my four year old can usually followdesired result. These answers are very well written Regular viewers know the experts and quite interesting to both of my children, and even as an adult I found this both educational and entertainingthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. I have to admit, I learned a few things from this book as well, and we will certainly be brushing up on our knowledge of the human brain before bringing this out again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447227166</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=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 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa WarehamJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Rescuing GusFritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each 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 will, and instead of having a national vote to keep 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. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1913750353
|title=Britannica's Word of the Day
|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham was ''convincedBritannica's Word of the Day'' that she must be adoptedhas a sub-title: how could someone like her who ''loved366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' dogs have been born which probably tells you all that you need to parents whoknow about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', well, wouldntells you how to pronounce it (''t have them in the house? She wasnraz-muh-TAZ't even that convinced when her mother produced her birth certificate. Melissa wouldn't be able to have ), gives you a dog until she had a home of her own but definition and then includes the word in the meantime she got a job at Battersea Dogs' Home sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and it was there that she met Gusfrequently amusing illustration too. He wasnI don't in think I've ever encountered a word which uses the first flush of youth and his breath was a weapon of mass destruction, but he and Melissa bonded and when he was very poorly - he had kennel cough - she took him home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849418179</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary and Martin Brown0711266204|title=Deadly Days in History The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (Horrible Historiesillustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Horrible Histories' catch phrase is History - with all I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the nasty bits left invast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. This is not completely true, Scholastic is not going to print a children's book with details which are too graphic for children, but this is An hour can pass without a doubt the nastiest and most gruesome of all of the Horrible Histories books we have readmy noticing. While I am happy enough reading most of 've established which species feed from the Horrible Histories books ground, which pop to my 4 year old as well as my 8 year old, I do think this one is best the feeders for the older children, would recommend a minimum age quick snatch of 7, some food and this only who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if the , as a child is already aware of the Holocaust, or the parent is prepared I'd had access to broach this subject in a sensitive manner and provide further informationbook such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121456</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Moran0192779230|title=What If... Humans Were Like Animals?Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary='What If Humans Were More Like AnimalsGerms' takes various unusual animal attributes and imagines seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. In the first book in what it would looks to be like if humans had an equivalent behaviour, ability, or physical feature. For instance, if we had teeth like a sharkvery promising new series, we wouldn't OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to worry about eating too many sweets, brushing our teeth, or even chomping down on a hard object. Whenever a tooth fell out, a new one would take its place. If we had the comparative strength world of a Hercules beetle, we could lift a double decker bus, germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and if we could jump how the equivalent of a froghopper insect, we'd be able to leap thinking has developed over sky scrapers with easetime. Not all of the animal traits would The vocabulary can be so much fun though. We wouldnconfusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't want our parents to eat us if we were not as strong as our siblings speak like a scientist' which explains some of the vole, trickiest concepts and while eyes on our hands like a starfish might have a few advantages, it would you'll soon be very awkward as well - who wants to pick things up familiar with their eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550421</amazonuk>bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Snow1800464495|title=How Dinosaurs Really Work100 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It’s sometimes difficult ''Babies seem to find books which appeal to reluctant readersbe born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, particularly boys. Three cheersbeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, then, for Alan Snow who has produced a really smashing book about those ever-popular dinosaurs. Here is a book which will appeal not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phaseassessing probability at six months old, and also to more struggling readers, a little later on. This is exactly the sort of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their matescomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>}}Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
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=Terry Deary1406395404|title=The Beastly Best Bits (Horrible Histories)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'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 for far too long, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1849767343
|title=Count on Me
|author=Miguel Tanco
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Horrible Histories: The Beastly Best Bits begins with title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a brief introduction by a black clad executioner who looks like he has stepped of the pages of the [[Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary|Horrible Histories Terrifying Tudors]] basic 1-2-3 book. Our friendly executioner will be our guide for the rest of the book, pointing those just starting out some of on the most gruesome moments in historynumbers journey. After some classic gallows humour and It isn't: it's a brief mention hymn of Vlad the Impaler we begin the tour with ancient Mesopotamia. The book includes the Assyrians, Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Vikings, Normans, Samurai Aztecs, Incas, Irish and Americanspraise to maths. It also covers several different periods of English history, gangsters in The Roaring 20's, the first about why maths is so wonderful and second world wars, and a quick section on Ruthless Rulershow you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136100</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1849767009|title=Terrifying Tudors (Horrible Histories)It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I've always thought Terry Deary was years ahead This could have been one of his time. He was writing those books that boys really wanted which 'preaches to read many years before the current emphasis on boy friendly reading material and all choir': the efforts to close only people who'll buy it are the ever widening gender gap in reading. Horrible Histories have always been brilliant to motivate boys to read, but people who know that nudity is OK and the older copies do show their age. Progress has been made in the way books are printed to make them more accessible to struggling readers over the last 20 years. Horrible Histories new editions celebrating ones who ''know'20 Horrible Years'that it' has addressed this issue s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes the books it into something so much more than a book about not only the type wearing clothes. It's a celebration of books that boys want to read, but also the type bodies: bodies large and small and of book that younger children or those every possible hue. Bodies with reading difficulties can readdisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135783</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1776572858|title=Awful Egyptians How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (Horrible Historiestranslator)
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=It''Facts, facts s more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and nothing but the facts'told me that she' - if this is your idea of d get me a history book - stop right hereabout it. Terry Deary's Horrible Histories do contain facts, in A couple of days later I was handed a well laid out easy to follow manner. But Terry Deary did not intend to write the Horrible History as history books, but rather as joke books. They may have ended up with far pamphlet (which delivered nothing more history than he originally intendedthe basics, but they remain a collection of amusing stories and jokes, rather than a collection of dry facts. Deary in clinical language which had never intended his books to be been used to teach history - in fact the mere mention of this really sets him off. He set out to write books that children wanted to read, books our house before) and I was told that are both engaging and entertaining, and whether he intended it wouldn't be discussed any further as such or not - he has created a series it ''wasn't something which truly engages boys long before this concept became popular. Very few children pick up a book because they want to learn nice people talked about history''. Children pick up Deary I 's books because he speaks directly to them, not in the language of authority and the adult world'knew'' more, but in a as co-conspiratorwas little ''wiser''. They read his books because they are fun Thankfully, but because he makes history both entertaining and relevant to them, they actually do learn this as welltimes have changed. What's more, they remember it unlike the facts they might memorise for a history quiz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135759</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1526362759|title=Measly Middle Ages (Horrible Histories)Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Horrible Histories series is What a favourite with both schools and Home Educators, but Terry Deary never intended his books to be used in education. He originally set out to write a joke relief! A bookabout money, based on a historical subjectfor children, but freed from the constraints with clear explanations of school - he discovered what so many it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of us have also found it (nope - history really robbing banks is fun. Instead of a joke book out) and what you can do with a bit it when you've managed to get hold of history, Deary ended up with a history book - with quite a lot of jokesit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. But these books were never intended as educational textsYou might want to go into business, they were written to entertainbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and his Horrible Histories - Measly Middle Ages does just thatthere might be something you really, it entertains both children and adults''really'' want to buy. It is difficult to read any of Deary There's books without learning something, but learning is incidental - also the possibility of using to do good in the fun comes firstworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135767</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hallfridur Olafsdottir and Porarinn Mar Baldursson178112938X|title=Maximus Musicus Visits the OrchestraSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=One day Maxi wanders into a rehearsal of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, where he is entranced to hear Ravel’s Bolero. He encounters most of It's fifty years since the orchestral instruments and there’s a lot of whimsical humour as Maxi moves Apollo 13 mission was launched from instrument to instrument. Eventually he falls asleep on the stageKennedy Space Centre in Florida, tired out by but the excitement story of that journey remains one of his adventures. He wakes to a loud booming noise as the beginning greatest survival stories of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played, and he finds that the orchestra is in concertall time. He scuttles down into ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a packed auditorium. At the end brilliant retelling of the concert, Maximus joins in the standing ovation which precedes the stirring home-grown encorewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1937330176</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=The Truth About Love|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=We are never too far from springtime, when, of course, a ''young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love''. [[:Category:Philip Ardagh|Beardy Ardagh]] is hoping that young people's fancies turn Nine Ways to trivia about love customs, predictions of who they'll marry and what the whole symbolism around love, Valentines and marriage mean. The emphasis is on young – this book is definitely suited for the primary school library, although he slips up once when asking if we think our partners smell nice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144720784X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss|title=Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric TypesEmpower Tweens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I suppose you could describe any ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book about dinosaurs as being sixty-five million years in the makingfor tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. What is definite Don't groan! I know there is that this title was certainly not knocked up overnight. After a suitably clever, rhyming introduction, market glut of such books for we enter the world of prehistory with A, grown-ups and exit with Z, having met 27 (yesfor young adults too, but there's is a surprise guest entrant) animals along the way. And the way we meet them on these supremely clever pages is the selling pointneedful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609051939</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike Dilger1609809173|title=Wild Town (RSPB)Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Would you like to know what about the thriving wildlife in Britain's towns Brash and cities? What natural riches are out thereelegant, sophisticated, if only you know where (controversial and how) to look? ''Wild Town'' will tell you. Divided into habitats - desert, grasslands, wetlandsvibrant, forests, scrub, caves - the book describes animals, and some plants, to be found in each. You'll be amazed at what1889 World's out there. And you'll find out a lot about a teeming natural world right on your doorstep. It will tell you Fair in Paris encompassed the best places to spot animals , the worst and plants - the beautiful from many countries andcultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, thanks food festivals and concerts to stun the wonderful photographysenses. And towering above it all, you'll have no trouble recognising them once you're there. From the iconic foxes most popular and badgers the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the less well known species of bird, amphibian and insect, it's all there in all its diversity and beautyEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408173905</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Camilla de la Bedoyere, John Farndon, Ian Graham, Richard Platt and Philip Steele1848576536|title=Discover Humanatomy: How the Awesome WorldBody Works|rating=4|genreauthor=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Back in 2011 I was impressed by [[Discover the Extreme World by Camilla de la Bedoyere, Clive Gifford, John Farndon, Steve Parker, Stewart Ross and Philip Steele]]. I said that In my day it would have been called an encyclopaedia. It would have had a lot more text, been rather dull – and remained largely unread by those who received it as a worthy present, but with that book you needed to start at the opposite end of the scale. It's about visual impact. A fact is linked to a picture and the more striking the better – and only then is it explained. The text is as simple as possible – clear, unambiguous wording which drives the point home as quickly as possible. The layout encourages you to move the book so that you see the pictures better and can read the words. It's fun Nicola Edwards and (say it quietly) it's educational. Now I'm not in the habit of recycling reviews (honest!) but sometimes you know that you can't say it any better as exactly the same comments apply to Discover the Awesome World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848108559</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Martin|title=Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy: Cool Ways to Remember StuffJem Maybank|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When I look back on my school days it didn't seem terribly complicated, but when I see what my grandchildren are coping 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 facts, but also shows them how they can develop their Get under your own ways of helping their memory. It's a book about mnemonics such as rhymes, acrosticsskin, storiespick your brains, grouping, linking, pictures, acronyms and wordplay. Itgo inside your insides!''s not just the methods of remembering that are there - there are all sorts of facts in with the methods.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551053</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Leroy RipleyLangford_Emily|title=RipleyEmily's Believe It or Not 2013Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You know itEmily found words 's getting near Christmas when you spot the annual Ripley's ''Believe It or Notuseful'', but counting was what she loved best. the celebration of all thatObviously, you can count anything and there's macabreno limit to how far you can go, shocking, gruesome but then Emily moved a step further and frequently downright revolting - began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and that's just the peopleeven numbers. Just wait until Then she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you get to the non-human itemscounted in threes which she called ''threeven''. We don't usually cover annuals (Actually, this confused me a little bit at Bookbag because first as they've frequently gone out re a subset of fashion before too many months have passed, the odd numbers but these books can be read year after year and sound as though they're still going ought to make be a subset of the average adult feel rather unwell. Yes - you're right. Kids are going to love even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946739</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona FodenBuckingham_Dawn|title=How to be Gorgeous: Smart Ways to Look The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Feel FabulousAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The first point that author Fiona Foden stresses is that this is What a book about how treat! I really did mean to be gorgeous, but she goes on to explain that this isnjust 't just about having glossy hair, great skin and a wonderful dress (although she does admit that these help). It's about looking amazing, but still being you. Itglance's about having confidence in who you are and having a positive energy about you. It's about having great friends - and at ''beingThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' a great friend, in fact being but the pull of the sort sounds of person that everyone wants a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to knowresist on a cold and rather wet February morning. She promises that most of what she suggests is not going I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to break the Bank their song. Then - just because I could - somethings are virtually, if not totally, free I went back and did it's all easyagain and it was just as good the second time around. So how does it live up to the promises, what do you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132695</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harriet Ziefert and Liz MurphyPankhurst_Women|title=ABC Dentist: Healthy Teeth from A to ZFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I hope that children are not A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as fearful of going though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to the dentist read about or regard as used regularly to be the caserole models. Of course, but even those this isn't true and there are plenty of women who are unworried will benefit from , throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, in this useful wonderful picture book directed mainly at from Kate Pankhurst, are the five to ten age group, although I'm sure that older children will find it stories of some of interest toothem. The ABC format might suggest a younger age range, but don't be fooled!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609052749</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RosenIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Fantastic Mr DahlWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Reading this book ''Women in Sport'' is rather like curling up coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a deep, squishy armchair with century and a cup half of cocoa and some squashed-fly biscuits while a favourite uncle chats to you about books. He tells you interesting things about Roald Dahlthe development of women's lifesport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, and then he discusses how those events may have affected his writingcovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, secure in the knowledge that you already know and love the storiesmuch more. Just as important, he pauses in his chat from time to time to ask your opinion — Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it's clear he's really interested is probably in your answerthis book somewhere. Do you prefer the original version of ''James Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography 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>a striking portrait.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerRooney_Dino|title=The Comic Strip Book of Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=34
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I asked you all to put your hands up if you had was a dinosaur book as child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a youth variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'd feel the draught from here. My grander examples certainly stayed on my shelves for years and survived several readingsnever heard of before! Each scene peels open, and I'm sure that's not unique - pluslayer by layer, over showing you what the intervening years science has learnt a lot of extra facts, various dinosaurs are getting up to make the books more accurate. Here then, for the 5-9swith background noises, is roars and squawks to accompany them! The book creates a primer of prehistorydinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and one such as the young me never hadgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408817462</amazonuk>
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