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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Greenberg and Isabel Greenberg1839948493|title=The Roman EmpireA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=You may not think it from my writingIn the interests of full disclosure, but I actually have must tell you that I'm a degree in historysucker for dogs. Some In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of this was on them. I wish I felt the Roman Empiresame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, but even I struggle 'm going to remember what happened when during the time periodsit down and devour. The Republic Then I'm going to go back and Empire spanned hundreds read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of yearsDogs'', so Alexander rocking up with his elephants did not happen anywhere near the rise of Julius Caesarninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Modern youths would not think to shove Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the invention accidental owner of the microchip in with the Napoleonic Wars, so why would you do this with Rome? Kids need an American Dingo - she's learned quite a simple book that tells them lot about the Roman Empire, but also puts it all in a context and timeline they can understanddogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808565</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kovecses1529507987|title=One Hundred Words: A first handwriting bookThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Little Mouse is learning to writeI love ''The Repair Shop''. Actually, you donIt't just learn s my go-to write, you have to learn to hold and use a pencil and to control it so that the point goes where you programme when I want it tobe cheered up. Pencils - and particularly crayons - have After a mind of their ownhard day, you know! there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. SoYou see, we start of with the tripod grip and some tips about value is in what these possessions are worth to do if you find that difficultthe people who own them and the memories they hold. Then we're straight into No expense appears to be spared and the action, starting with drawing a straight line from side to side experts spend as much time and effort as is required to see what's required we have a footballer kicking a ball in achieve the direction we're going to godesired result. There are fifteen examples where you trace Regular viewers know the line, just so you get the hang of experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it and then you get to have a go on your ownis they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808018</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll024162343X|title=Nature's Day: Out and AboutStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45

|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a computer screen'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I like didn't so much want to see them getting outdoorslearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, preferably getting a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about naturebut 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. A good teacher will inspire childrenLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem'Naturepolitely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what a child needsStolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle Kroll Jeremy Dronfield and Nghiem TaDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold Fritz and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsKurt

|summary=Here''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side sub- only by animal prints, I mean the sort of colours title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and pattern Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you see all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on animalsJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more intells you how to pronounce it (''raz-yourmuh-face. On TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the reverse of these printed pages provide word in a cutting line sentence so that you can cut and fold the paper and know how it becomes a 3D model of should be used. You also get an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - engaging and number these so that they get into the right placefrequently amusing illustration too. All you need to add to the mix is I don't think I've ever encountered a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for word which uses the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Handford0711266204|title=Where's Wally: The Colouring BookSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Are you looking for something relaxing, easy to complete I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which will allow your mind to wander freely as you gently colour in visit our garden on a pleasing design? daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Do you want to indulge your imagination and use the colours I've established which tempt you at species feed from the momentground, content that it will not affect which pop to the finished creation? feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Would you like large spaces which you can shade in large swoops It would have been wonderful if, as it pleases you? Are you aiming for a soothing finished product which is easy on the eye? Sorry: youchild, I've got the wrong d had access to a booksuch as ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406367303</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deborah Patterson0192779230|title=My Book Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Stories: Write Your Own AdventuresGerms|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=If you happen 'Germs' seems to have two children, born five years apart, become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you can count on having to live through practically four full years of school holidays – and that doesn't include Bank Holidays or teacher trainingill. Weather permitting, that's well over 1,400 days where In the impetus is on first book in what looks to take them somewherebe a very promising new series, or spend moneyOUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. So We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what better they thought caused them and cheaper place to take them than their own imagination? how the thinking has developed over time. And if you The vocabulary canbe confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 't quite unlock speak like a scientist' which explains some of the door that leads theretrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we can certainly suggest this bookshould protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356355</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Claybourne1800464495|title=50 Things You Should Know About100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Wild WeatherSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Oh''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, this takes me back. Out being aware of all the things we learn quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at school six months old, and comprehending addition and profess subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to never want to need as an adultschool is a strong predictor of later achievement, the water cycle is one double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I had forgotten 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 aboutmaths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, until nowin 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.}} It forms the basis {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a lot strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our weather, after all – the way landmasses 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 seas warm the air above them differentlyothers will worry unnecessarily. Most people, thus causing motion in from children to adults will have the shape odd bad night but worrying about your lack of winds and altering atmospheric pressure, that we call weathersleep is only likely to make it worse. And from there's also the gentlest high pressure, fact that someone somewhere will always deem for far too hotlong, lack of sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to the most furious electrical storm, weather is certainly something a lot of people seem like to talk aboutlaziness. Is this book Being up early, working late has been praised and the ideal place ability to learn the basics of such a thing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178493304X</amazonuk>survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)1849767343|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it'm on s either about responsibility - or it's a mission: I want children basic 1- adults too 2- to spend a lot more time outside. I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D and 3 book for those just starting out on the knowledge of what nature can offer themnumbers journey. I'd like the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for free, but which - if we donIt isn't care for : it - might not always be there's a hymn of praise to maths. Fortunately the authors of It''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideass about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington1849767009|title=The Nature ExplorerIt Isn's Scrapbookt Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Animals and WildlifeFor Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir'An activity book, but not as you know it: the only people who'' is what ll buy it says on are the back cover - people who know that nudity is OK and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid the ones who ''activity booksknow' as they usually have soft covers, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you an hour or two's peace shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the school holidayssupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a different beast altogetherbook about not wearing clothes. It's part album in which you're going to collect a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and part nature guidemarkings. ItThey's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsre fine. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for yearsIn fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peggy Caravantes1776572858|title=Marooned in the ArcticHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=BiographyHome and Family|summary=Misogynists are manmadeIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. And if anyone My mother was in deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a position to hate men and the lot they put on their shoulders, book about it was Ava Blackjack. Her surname spoke A couple of an abusive man she had days later I was handed a son bypamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, but it in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was her time with four other men told that made for one of the last centuryit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''s more remarkable stories. An Inuit nativeI ''knew'' more, but one brought up in a city and with English lessons, she was invited on an excursion alongside many other little ''wiser'Eskimo' and four intrepid Westerners, to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, perched off the northern Siberian coast. They were there just to stick a flag in it and call it British, even if they were pretty much fully American and Canadian, and the chap whose ideas these all were bore an Icelandic name; she was along to provide native expertise, especially waterproof fur clothing. And that was it – none of her kin joined her, leaving her in one tent and four men in anotherThankfully, in one of the world's most remote and inhospitable placestimes have changed. And that was just the start of her worries…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613730985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham1526362759|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|summary=Take What a well-put-together board relief! A book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old money, for a board book once they see it)children, add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the details. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details with clear explanations of where the bird is found, what it eatsis, where why it nestsmatters, how many eggs to acquire more of it lays, how the male (nope - robbing banks is out) and female adults differ and their size. Then what you need a 'Did can do with it when you know?' fact and this needs ve managed to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book get hold of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Serge Bloch|title=3, 2, 1... Draw!|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I can Your reasons for wanting money don't drawmatter: we all need it to some extent. I've never been able You might want to draw. A blank sheet of paper and go into business, be a pencil frightens me. I thought I was probably clever shopper, a little bit old to change my ways but then I discovered saver (you might even become an ''3, 2, 1... Draw!investor'' ) and there might have been a movement within the tectonic plates of my brainbe something you really, ''really'' want to buy. It's a drawing book which isn't about blank pages: itThere's about imagination and inspiration, with also the first encouraged and the second delivered by possibility of using to do good in the barrow loadworld. I've just had more fun than I thought possible with pencil and paper!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807240</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson178112938X|title=Mind Your HeadSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Frida Kahlo|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Frida Kahlo fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was born launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Mexico. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake''Florida, but she bore the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being different. Then story of that journey remains one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled of the greatest survival stories of all time by drawing pictures, including a self portrait. Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked the pictures, ''and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibited, eventually Survival in New York, to great acclaim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero|title=Little People, Big DreamsSpace: Coco Chanel|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Gabrielle Chanel lived in an orphanage in a French town and after the death of her mother she went to a strict convent school. The fact that she was Apollo 13 Mission''different'' didn't make her life ''easy'', but there were early indications that she was going to be is a seamstress. After she left school she sewed by day and sang by night and it was as she sang that she gained her nickname - ''Coco'' - which came from the soldiers in the audience. But her dream was designing clothes and the first step was designing and making hats: this led to her opening a hat shop. One evening, at a party she realised that a lot brilliant retelling of the women weren't dancing: their corsets were so tight that they could hardly breathe and it was this that prompted Coco to create a new style. Her clothes were simple, straight and comfortable to wearwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807712</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason Quinn Kathleen Boucher and Naresh KumarSara Chadwick|title=World War Two: Against the Rising Sun (Campfire Graphic Novels)Nine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=World War Two – so often ''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a lesson subject self-help book for our primary school childrentweens, even after all this timesetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Nazis, Soviets, Pearl Harbor – but wait. That last wasnDon't just the clarion call to the Americans to join in with the rest of our Allies – it was a mere episode in groan! I know there is a fuller story – the half market glut of the war that was never seen by those in Europesuch books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, beyond the fact the British Empire was certainly changed forever. The War in the Pacific but there is something I was certainly never taught much about in school, at any age. And here's a graphic novel version of the tale from a publisher needful space in India that can serve at last as a salutary lessonan increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9381182051</amazonuk>0228818826}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Helfand and Lalit Kumar Sharma1609809173|title=World War Two: Under the Shadow of the Swastika (Campfire Graphic Novels)Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=One of the most common subjects at primary schoolBrash and elegant, sophisticated, getting on for three generations since it happenedcontroversial and vibrant, is of course the 1889 World War Two. It has the impact that sixty million dead people deserve – but only if it's taught correctlyFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. One of The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the ways to present senses. And towering above it is this bookall, which comes from a slightly surprising place – an Indian publisher completely new the most popular and the most hated monument to me French accomplishment and daring – but succeeds in being remarkably competent, complete and really quite readablethe Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockroft1848576536|title=Amazing Animal JourneysHumanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=It's only relatively recently that man has actually moved home at certain points of the year to take advantage of the weather or the availability of food'Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but wild life has been doing it for much longer and every year billions of animals move from one part of the planet to another - thatgo inside your insides!'' That's birdswhat ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insectsI don't see how you could resist. This is known as migration - and it's informative book provides a real pleasure wonderful primer about the human body to see it used other than in curious children- from the context of sensationalist newspaper headlines. Wildlife expert Chris Packham has written this introduction skeletal system to the subject muscular system via circulation, respiration and it's been beautifully illustrated by Jason Cockroft. (He's digestion, right up to the man DNA that makes who did the cover artwork for the final three Harry Potter books!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277459</amazonuk>we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christina WilsdonLangford_Emily|title=Ultimate ReptileopediaEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=Have you ever wanted to know more about reptiles? Scratch thatEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Have Obviously, you ever wanted to seemingly know everything that can count anything and there ever was 's no limit to know how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about reptiles? odd and even numbers. If soThen 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 doncounted in threes which she called 't just need 'threeven''. (Actually, this confused me a normal encyclopaedia that will have little bit at first as they're a page or two on subset of the subject, odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a Reptileopedia that has more information and images subset of reptiles in the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it than you could shake a snake at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426321031</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Meredith Hooper and Chris CoadyBuckingham_Dawn|title= The Drop in My DrinkLittle Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= This brilliant book tells What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the story Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of where water comes from in the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a wonderfully captivating waycold and rather wet February morning. In full colour picture book style, it does far more than explain scientific facts I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about our planet, the way life has evolved birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and where our water comes fromdid it all again and it was just as good the second time around. It takes the reader on an inspiring So, exciting and eye-opening journey through millions of years – the same journey one little drop of water in one child' cup may have taken!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807143</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul ThurlbyPankhurst_Women|title= L is for London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I spend a lot of time in London for work, and we tend to walk to a lot of our destinations which works out quite well since London days are long days and long days tend not to include time for the gym. But, as you walk from Euston to Waterloo or Elephant and Castle, you also get to see a lot of a wonderful city. I've never lived there, but I feel like every week I know it a little better. This book is London all over and whether you live elsewhere in the UK or further afield, it's a fantastic way to learn more about the place.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491877X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Peter Goes|title=TimelineKate Pankhurst|rating=3.5

|summary=''Tick followed tock followed tick followed tockA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians.'' OnceSometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, that islet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, wethis isn'd got over the Big Bangt true and there are plenty of women who, which of course was silent. We flash forwards a few billion years to the creation of the earththroughout history, have a quick look at prehistoryachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something never seen before. So here, then it's in with this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the world's happenings we can be sure stories of and date accurately. This book makes an attempt at conveying it all along one river some of time – albeit with many tributaries – and with a strong visual style points us to all that is important about our past along the way. Flick through it backwards and you can recreate a different Guinness advert to the one I quoted – but it's probably worth a much longer lookthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helaine Becker and Brendan MullanIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Everything Space (National Geographic Kids Everything)Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=35

|summary=It has ''Women in Sport'' is coming to be said that too many children habitually want to be involved us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the dangerous jobs – firefighterdevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, sportsmancovering sports as diverse as swimming, pilotfencing, racing car driverriding, astronaut. Yesskating, looking up at the Milky Way or seeing planets and suns drift around in planetariums or movies seems particularly benign, but you have to bear in mind astronauts have to face severe G-force pressures when they take off, put themselves into the hands much more. Think of thousands of scientists, engineers a sport and so on to keep them safe, and face a lot when they do get out there. It seems pioneering woman succeeding at it's just another job a child should be safely steered away from aspiring tois probably in this book somewhere. Luckily there Each entry is both so much we know about space, and so much we have yet to learn, that they can have a satisfying life in that world from double-page spread with a cosy room in an observatory. Books like this are designed to be the first step through those doors – brief biography and a primer in all things from the biggest galactic clusters to the tiniest particles of dark matterstriking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426320744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Various ArtistsRooney_Dino|title=Doctor Who: The Colouring BookDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=In my youth colouring Lift the flap books were popular for children: they helped to teach some valuable skillshave progressed somewhat since I was a child. But teachersThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I'experts'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, thought that they stifled creativity and once showing you'd mastered being able to stick within what the lines they were whisked away as being 'childish' and you were restricted to artistic completion of maps in geography or illustrations of experiments in science. The fact that colouring could be relaxing and fun had been forgotten. Fortunately times have changed: adults various dinosaurs are encouraged getting up to relax , with one of the hundreds of colouring books now available background noises, roars and I'm delighted squawks to see accompany them! The book creates a resurgence of the idea for not dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the youngest children but for those who're a bit older dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds toothat spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141367385</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Slee and Becca StadtlanderMason_poo|title=Style Guide: Fashion From Head to ToeThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=45|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In 'I know, I know, sometimes you really don'Style Guide: Fashion from Head t want to Toeencourage your children'' we have a guided tour through fashion from the eighteen nineties to about 2010s poo jokes, taking a decade or so at a time but this book is brilliant! I sat and exploring several aspects of each decade. For instance read it by myself when the period 1890 kids had gone to 1914 is divided into ''The Belle Epoque'', ''Out school and About'' and 'found it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo? The Orient''. Each division has a picture book manages to be coloured but rather than both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and educational. Using a picture mixture of ''one'' garmentfacts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, there's you come away having sniggered a montage of garments and accessories from little at the period: ''The Orient '' has eight vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different pictures - types of the triangle bagpoo, a fur-trimmed shawl, kimono, pleated gownwhy poos smell, a folding fan, a Ballet Russes costume and slippers and finally a turban. On the reverse of each picture is a key. The article is numbered on the main picture and in the corresponding key you'll find some historical information and some colour detailswhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807348</amazonuk>