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|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano

|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!

|rating=4

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction

|summary=I'm sure I was full of questions when I was a nipper – which means I was too full of questions. Parents just don't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changed. But for the inner city child, there is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano

|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Charlotte Rampling, Christophe Bataille and William Hobson (translator)~~

~~|title=Who I Am~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Autobiography~~

|summary=I'll drop all pretence of plot summary, and set the stall out, just as this book does. Here's a quote from page one – Who I Am: ''not a biography''. With the name of one of cinema's most esteemed actresses on the front, you might assume it to be an autobiography for a start, but before that quote we'll already have been disabused of that thought, for apart from a couple of quotes the first six and a half pages of the book is addressed ''to'' Charlotte Rampling, and not apparently by her. There are gnomic paragraphs and lyrics here, in italics that suggest they are direct quotes, leaving the rest of the text here to be both a collaborative look at the star's background, and a musing perusal of the nature of creating the book in the first place. And that stall I was setting out certainly doesn't have the right number of legs if I don't mention this book can be read in well under an hour.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781936</amazonuk>~~

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