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|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle

|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago

|rating=4.5

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction

|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundred, and that's not a problem. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to try and find them all. And the learning is also here, as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show us. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>

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|author=Ryder Windham

|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and the army seems powerless to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of the round table, no less: King Arthur.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer~~

~~|title=The Street Beneath My Feet~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a book. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And there's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>~~

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