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|title=The Life of a Car
|author=Susan Steggall
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=As the daughter of a car worker and the mother of a little boy who is fascinated by wheels, ''The Life of a Car'' stood out on the shelf. Part of the ''Busy Wheels'' series, this non fiction picture book illustrates the life cycle of a car from manufacture to scrapping with the help of just the odd word or two or three.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804217</amazonuk>
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|title=S is for South Africa
|summary=It's a non-fiction book certainly for the primary school audience, and as a result is fully pictorial and not terribly wordy. The '50 Things' idea is a hook to draw one in, and that leads to fifty more salient paragraphs being given us in bold print, mostly but not all given a double-page spread. But there are other boxed-out paragraphs, timelines, factoids written up the edge of the page, illuminating captions and more, so there is certainly a welter of detail. Said diversity of detail can be delivered at times in awkward fashion – even with three paragraphs at most per page it can still be a test to read them in the right order – but it does mean this book covers the gamut of the War, pretty much in chronological order, and more or less in perfectly-judged depth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715890</amazonuk>
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