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<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-- Ignotofsy -->Fiction*[[image:Ignotofsky_Sport.jpg|left|linksummary=https://wwwIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs.amazon In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them.co I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'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'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends.uk/gp/product/1526360926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526360926]]she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=[[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky]]The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Childrensummary=I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's Nonmy go-Fiction]] to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they'Women re worth. You see, the value is in Sport'' what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is coming required to us just before achieve the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018desired result. It celebrates a century Regular viewers know the experts and a half of the development of womenthey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's sport by looking Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much moreschool. Think I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it is was probably in this book somewhereworse still. Each entry is a double page spread with a brief biography Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and a striking portraitoccasional 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. [[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]]approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne Rooney Jeremy Dronfield and Suzanne CarpenterDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Discovering DinosaursFritz and Kurt

|summary=Lift the flap books I have progressed somewhat since recently discovered a great pleasure: I was sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a childdaily basis. This one comes with sounds! An hour can pass without my noticing. Taking us layer by layerI've established which species feed from the ground, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet which pop to the feeders for a variety quick snatch of creatures, some of whom are very familiar food and who settles in for a good munch but some I'd never heard of before! wish I was more knowledgeable. Each scene peels openIt would have been wonderful if, layer by layeras a child, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up I'd had access to, with background noises, roars and squawks to accompany them! a book such as ''The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs itSecret Life of Birds''s very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938750</amazonuk>So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles0192779230|title=Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Poo That Animals DoInvisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want Germs' seems to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the kids had gone potential to school and found it fascinating! make you ill. Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The In the first book manages in what looks to be both funny (a very promising new series, OUP and silly) as well as being very interesting Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and educationalaccessible introduction to the world of germs. Using a mixture of facts We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and figures, photographs what they thought caused them and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at how the vulture who poos on its own feet, thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but also knowing Thomas gives a lot about different types regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of poothe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, why poos smellfungi, protists and viruses – and why wombats do square pooshow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526303949</amazonuk>

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Who won a national prize for ''Maths ability on entry to school is a crayon drawing strong predictor of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and came to Europe to study from the greatslater achievement, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture double that of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in America at one time, and still the best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappingsliteracy skills. [[American Gothic: The Life of Grant Wood by Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald|Full Review]]<br>''

{{newreview|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|title=The Atlas of Monsters|rating=4|genre=ChildrenI didn's Nont know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy -Fiction|summary=There are monsters and mysterious charactersreading stories, such as trollsteaching pen grips, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurssinging rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. They're But do we think the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all same way about them. There are monsters and mysterious charactersmaths, such as Gog and Magogbeyond counting? I don't think we do, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They in part because so many of us are what you find if you take an interest in this kind afraid of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across themmaths. But there why are monsters we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and mysterious characters, such it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablilibeneficial. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783706961</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily Murray and Chris Wormell1406395404|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum)The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Popular ScienceTeens|summary=One of the selling points for entities like the ''Jurassic Park'' films is that they bring all the high-energy action of dinosaur life to the screen, in 2020 has been a way strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that is suitable, they would say, for children of all agesstatement. But there is a very different way Lots of going our routines have been completely dismantled and for some teenagers this will have brought about thingssleep problems. This book does feature dinosaurSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -on-dinosaur combatI'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 in presenting the most scientific of fossil remainslikely to make it worse. It delves into And there's also the evolutionary life of what we have fact that for far too long loved to enjoy and all the major scientific developments for the most inquisitive student, so the book is actually worth considering in lack of sleep has been lauded as a very different wayvirtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. I would say this is ideal for ''adults'' of all agesBeing up early, working late has been praised and the ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez1849767343|title=This Cookbook is GrossCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=The misuse title and format of language is a modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People 's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just seem to pluck words starting out of on the ether and pretend that they are the correct onesnumbers journey. Are the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy GutierrezIt isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths. It'This Cookbook s about why maths is Gross' truly gross? For once the language is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but so wonderful and how you meet it in appearance they are absolutely vileeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938289</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jojo Siwa1849767009|title= JojoIt Isn's Guide t Rude to the Sweet Lifebe Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary= JoJo with This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the Bow Bow has written a Book Book! And without meaning to sound like my expectations were low, only people who'll buy it was surprisingly good. I say this because we are the people who know JoJo as that nudity is OK and the girl from ones who ''Dance Momsknow'' with that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the outspoken mother (well, one of hot-and-bothered person in the outspoken mothers) supermarket who is known for her dancing and the big bows she wears, coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than for her brainsa book about not wearing clothes. And yet this book shows us another side, It's a side in which she is an articulatecelebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, insightful and intelligent young womanthey're wonderful. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419728172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rob Beattie and Sam Peet1776572858|title= Stupendous ScienceHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Education should be funIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. We learn best when we are engaged with practical, enjoyable tasks My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. That's A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the secret behind the experiments 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''Stupendous Science. I ''knew'' They have the fun elementmore, the but was little ''wiser'wow factor,' and most importantly. Thankfully, can be easily replicated with items that are readily available in the hometimes have changed. Each experiment teaches an important scientific concept; essentially teaching through play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber1526362759|title= Optical IllusionsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating= 5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I used What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to work as a library assistant acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and I remember arriving what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to work one morning some extent. You might want to find all of my fellow librarians crowded around go into business, be a bookclever shopper, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called a saver (you might even become an ''Magic Eyeinvestor'' ) and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if there might be something you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain wayreally, ''really'' want to buy. For a brief period in There's also the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back possibility of using to their everyday lives. Well do good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusionsworld.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joey Chou178112938X|title=Make Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Play: NativityStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=I always feel a slight disappointment for children at Christmas when they're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so it's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safe. WhereIt's fifty years since the imagination, Apollo 13 mission was launched from the creativityKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the sense story of pride in that? journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. How much better to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? That's exactly what they get with Joey Chou's ''Make and Play NativitySurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''is a brilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ParkerKathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick|title=50 Things You Should Know About the VikingsNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=The Vikings have got ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a lot to own up self-help book for tweens, setting out toshow them vital #lifeskills. A huge DNA study 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 2014 was the first thing that proved an increasingly technological world accessible to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irishyounger and younger children for material for tweens too. The Vikings it was that forced our English king |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5|genre=Children's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasionNon-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – controversial and vibrant, the Normans had 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the same Norse origin as best, the first lot, hence worst and the namebeautiful from many countries and cultures. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far The French Republic laid out model villages from the coast – that has a Viking longship all their colonies, put on its signpost. Yesart shows, they got to a lot of placesdance performances, from Greenland food festivals and concerts to Kievstun the senses. And towering above it all, from Murmansk to Turkey the most popular and the Med, most hated monument to French accomplishment and their misaligned history is well worth visiting daring – particularly on these pagesthe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Lucy Letherland1848576536|title=Atlas of Dinosaur AdventuresHumanatomy: Step Into a Prehistoric WorldHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=You might think''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselveshonestly, that there was little to say about them that hadnI don't been said, and few new ways of giving us information about them. Well, I would put it to see how you that this is a novel variantcould resist. Over many jumbo spreads, we get This informative book provides a different dinosaur in a different situation each time, whether it be being born, being slain or learning wonderful primer about the human body to fly, and curious children- from the book gives us all skeletal system to the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs lived. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in eachmuscular system via circulation, respiration and what with the book hitting all corners of our current globedigestion, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right up to our door, and the DNA that makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry BloomLangford_Emily|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=ItEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's becoming easier no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and easier to spot books for the young began counting in twos. She knew all about pirates – that surely is about the only career from the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about itodd and even numbers. It must be a combination Then she began counting in threes: half of the derring-dolist were even numbers, but the illegality, other half was odd and it was this list of course the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would odd numbers which occurred when you see a youngster studying one countrycounted in threes which she called ''threeven''s attacks on another, and reading about how treasures, slaves and other resources changed hands. This volume(Actually, however, tries its best to stand out, and has adopted the equally prevalent concept this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of getting the reader odd numbers but sound as though they ought to pore over large dioramas to seek be a subset of the small detail hidden in the images. For onceeven numbers, though, there's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline AllistonBuckingham_Dawn|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 45|genre= Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding Engineersglance'' at '' takes a strictly hands-on approach to science to show how scientific ideas can be applied to real-world situations. The book contains 25 projects with varying degrees Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of complexity a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to demonstrate topics such as air travel, programmable machines, light, motion resist on a cold and electricityrather wet February morning. The book is designed with the younger scientist in mind, I spent an indulgent hour or so there is a focus on reading all about the fun aspect, with many of birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the projects involving toyssecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris MaddenPankhurst_Women|title=We Travel So FarFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer A lot of Foreigner said ''I've travelled so far to change this lonely lifehistory is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians.'' WellSometimes, he's gone nowhere it feels almost as though there were no women in comparison history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to many of these creaturesread about or regard as role models. Of course, who probably wouldnthis isn't call their life lonelytrue and there are plenty of women who, either. Masses of animals gatherthroughout history, herdhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, schoolor created something never seen before. So here, and fly in unisonthis wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, and all make their migration to change their lives. Some hide from are the danger stories of winter storms, many seek the food they need before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano to lay eggs in the one place they know will keep of them warm. It might seem to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKIgnotofsky_Sport|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Know About EverythingWin|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=3.5

|summary=Having ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Internet Winter Olympics in the home for South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a child to learn from is all well century and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, there definitely is an instance a half of having too much the development of a good thing – it is no use for the young mind to be exposed to every bit women's sport by looking at fifty of knowledge we may have amassed. Noits highest achievers, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate the important bitscovering sports as diverse as swimming, letting you learn just enoughfencing, and the key things you do need to knowriding, all from one place. This book doesn't really term itself as an encyclopaedia, that has to be said, but its large format puts it on the shelf next to themskating, and its colourful much more. Think of a sport and educative mien proves it's a very close relative, pioneering woman succeeding at least of the modern kindit is probably in this book somewhere. What it has decided to do Each entry is to structure the world into certain subjects, a double-page spread with a brief biography and to give us 13½ facts regarding every topic. And what a diverse range of topics it has amassedstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKRooney_Dino|title=My Encyclopedia of Very Important AnimalsDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=The animal kingdom is Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a diverse child. This onecomes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, full through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures that do all sorts , some of things. The number whom are very familiar but some I'd never heard of animals out there is so vast that even vets need before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and squawks to do accompany them! The book creates a quick google when something strange appears dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in their practice. For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of fascination habitats and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia isgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMason_poo|title=DK Children's EncyclopediaThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didnI know, I know, sometimes you really don't really want to encourage your children''do'' bookss poo jokes, but it was a treasure trove for me this book is brilliant! I sat and I still have read it today. It didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for by myself and how when the kids had gone to use an index. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered school and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, in size and content found it fascinating! Who knew there was very similar to so much I didn''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just t know about poo? The book manages to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Heather Alexander both funny (and Andres Lozano|title=Life on Earth: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions silly) as well as being very interesting and 70 Lift-flaps!|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I was educational. Using a big fan mixture of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps facts and bounds. We've got in touch with them perhaps being featheredfigures, photographs and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesightfunny cartoons, hearing and so much more may have been like. But science will never stop, and you come away having sniggered a little at the next generation will need to be vulture who poos on board with the job its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of discovering thempoo, analysing themwhy poos smell, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind of person to ask questions, you may well ask 'how why wombats do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionssquare poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>