==Children's non-fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Nina Grunfeld
|title=How To Get What You Want
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. It's hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Walsh
|title=10 Things I Can Do To Help My World
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's never to early to start making a difference. Melanie Walsh's book introduces young children to simple things they can do to change the world, from switching lights off, to turning off the taps when brushing your teeth. What's more, the book is made from 100% recycled materials, making buying it an 11th thing you can do to help your world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320293</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rolf Heimann
|title=Dragonmazia
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Dragonmazia'' is packed to the rafters with detailed, engaging, varied and fascinating mazes. There's a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting samey: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragons, and a few cuddly dragons too. Each page generally has one big maze, with a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around it. It doesn't have an overall narrative, but there's plenty of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=We Are What We Do
|title=Teach Your Granny To Text
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I loved this book. I loved the positive tone of this book. It is just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that I even passed it onto to my household's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots of ideas in it that capture the spirit of these new-austerity times, and took a note of a few for his next council meeting. It's true!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
|title=The Comic Strip History of the World
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Comic Strip History of the World'' is, as you might expect, a comic strip history of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present day, with each period of history summed up in a page or two. It's very much a potted history in the vein of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been before.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dugald Steer
|title=Spyology
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set out to write this manual of Spyology, otherwise known as Tradecraft, in the course of his last mission, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front of me turned up at the headquarters of MI6 in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEX. It's recently become available to the public under the fifty year rule.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giles Sparrow
|title=Voyage Across The Cosmos
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In the course of a year I see some wonderful books but this must rank as one of the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey to the edge of space and time'' the reader is off on a journey of a hundred and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earth. On the way you'll see some breathtaking sights and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of the cosmos.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marion Bataille
|title=Abc 3d
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Kieve
|title=Hocus Pocus
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Hocus Pocus'' is part biography of the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them as they come alive from his posters, and part magic instruction manual. All the parts foster an interest in magic, and act as an inspiration to the next generation of magicians.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Scarry
|title=What Do People Do All Day?
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=As its title suggests, the book is about what people do all day. Since different people all do different things, the book covers a lot of topics. The first section looks at Busy Town itself along the high street. This book truly shines with some of the best examples of Scarry's illustrations, as we see the town above ground, and below ground in intricate detail. We see the men digging tunnels and the underground pipes, street cleaners at work, and peeks into the bank and various shops as well as the fire department, doctor, dentist, and so on. All are clearly labelled and much fun is to be had after reading the narrative, looking at and discussing all the marvellous detail. As the book progresses, we get to see what Mummy does all day at home, what the farmer does, the door to door salesman, the policeman, the fireman, the blacksmith, the postmen, the ferry workers, and so on.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007189508</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Morddel
|title=The Big Field: A Teachers' Guide
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This teachers' guide is designed to accompany [[The Big Field: A Child's Year Under the Southern Cross by Anne Morddel]]. The inspiration for the book came about when the author worked as a librarian at a school in the state of Paranã in Brazil. In trying to find a book about the seasons (and how the natural world around them changed) for children in the five to eleven age group she realised that none existed for the southern hemisphere. She set out to remedy the situation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186417</amazonuk>
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