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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill1839948493|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower A World of LondonDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of In the infamous Tower interests of London is full of gore and deathdisclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many I've loved most of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of I wish I felt the Tower is told within this same about human beings. So, any book's pagesabout dogs, only this time itI's told by the ravens that live therem going to sit down and devour. They are the Tower Then I's guardians who reside there permanently due m going to an ancient legend that all go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of London will fall should they be removedDogs'', and after centuries of watching over with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the Tower they have their own version accidental owner of history to tellan American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hutton1529507987|title=Cool PhysicsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If you arenI love 't entirely sure about a phrase such as 'The Repair Shop'Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, donthere't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so yous nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're not too far behind in physicsworth. Brownian motionYou see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before memories they hold. No expense appears to be spared and the Victorian era, experts spend as much time and all of these three things are on effort as is required to achieve the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in desired result. Regular viewers know the world of physics experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is very much neededthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker024162343X|title=The Prehistoric TimesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=2.5

|summary=With I was the ability to read bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the news on our phones or watch existence of a 'god'. Where was the 24 hour news channelsproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the days end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the newspaper appear British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be coming called 'the colonies' as want to an enddispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. You could say Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that they are going I lacked the maturity to be extinct, much like approach 'the dinosaursproblem' politely. So, if newspapers are a thing of the past and so are dinosaurs, it would make sense that dinosaurs I wish I'd had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case and Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Prehistoric TimesStolen History'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news and views.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas FlinthamJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Around the World Colouring BookFritz and Kurt

|summary=Colouring books are ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium andTickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at know about this colouring brilliant book: it. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''s got page upon page of pictures , tells you how to colour pronounce it (with just ''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a little narrative to set definition and then includes the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. YouI don'll see grey shapes - and thatt think I's ve ever encountered a word which uses the signal to get stickeringletter Z four times before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald0711266204|title=My Burptastic Body Book The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (Dirty Bertieillustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=Oh, to be young I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and innocent, and to be full watch the vast numbers of questionsbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Questions like 'is eating An hour can pass without my bogies good for me', or 'why is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell'noticing. You donI't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know ve established which species feed from the answers – respectivelyground, no; it's down which pop to dead bacteria; the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and it doesn't – it's other bacteria againwho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. If you think you It would have been wonderful if, as a lad (orchild, letI's face it, d had access to a lass) interested in learning book such stuff, this book could well be the place to turnas ''The Secret Life of Birds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin0192779230|title=GrowVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and VegThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=I worried when I looked at this book: 'Germs'Grow'', it said, ''A family guide seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to growing fruit and veg''make you ill. Why did it worry me? WellIn the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, it's OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a mere 48 pages clear and accessible introduction to the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers world of germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and MORE!how the thinking has developed over time. The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' I have weighty tomes which donexplains some of the trickiest concepts and you't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit and vegll soon be familiar with bacteria, so wasn't this going to fall a little short? Wellfungi, it doesn't - not at allprotists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1800464495|title=Rainforest Masks100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out and MakeSupport All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I have been having ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know the effect that you get when a really talented face artist does a young childthis? I didn's face and you t! How about: ''seeMaths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' the tiger? Well,  I didn't know this is an even better result and it's either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in 3Dliteracy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. All But do we think the creatures aresame way about maths, as you would expectbeyond counting? I don't think we do, from the rainforest regions in part because so many of us are afraid of the world, but there's decidedly more here than the usual suspectsmaths. You get But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a green iguana, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, redsimilar pre-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blueschool grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{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 strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled andfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? -yellow macaw I've got loads to be doing) and the emerald tree boaothers will worry unnecessarily. Never heard Most people, from children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of some of them? sleep is only likely to make it worse. Well, donAnd there't worry: s also the book is gently educationalfact that for far too long, with lack of sleep has been lauded as a paragraph telling you just enough about virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. Being up early, working late has been praised and the creatureability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb1849767343|title=National Trust: Complete Night Explorer's KitCount on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=There is a misfortune The title and format of this book might lead you to the modern world, in think that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution is so awful it's certainly not uncommon for people to hardly see any of the stars and to get to learn the constellations, and while I only went out to go 'meteor hunting', either about responsibility - or it's patently obvious that a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying onenumbers journey. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – It isn't: it begins with setting up 's a tent in your back garden, and too many don't even get that chance, for want hymn of possession of onepraise to maths. Yes, if this book It's about why maths is only read once in the daytime so wonderful and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, how you meet it really will be a crying shamein everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders1849767009|title=National Trust: Go Wild in the WoodsIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comforts. Always This could have been, always will – and creature comforts donone of those books which 't involve snuggling down in a sleeping bag, however comfortable, preaches to watch creatures, as far as Ithe choir'm concerned. Luckily, however, many : the only people who'll buy it are of another bent entirely – the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they find no problem avoid the hot-and-bothered person in getting out and the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about, taking whatever weather not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and wildlife can throw at them, small and spending time out of doors for the hell of itevery possible hue. This book is the first stage to that, Bodies with disabilities and needs to be read in full before you step out your front doormarkings. And even if itThey's your re fine. In fact, they''only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>re wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Chapman and Us Now1776572858|title=The Story of the CarHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Home and Family|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… carsIt's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. I canMy mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she't think of many other subjects that inspired the young d get me to have a full non-fiction book about them on my juvenile shelvesit. Most A couple of course days later I lost interest was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in with maturity. our house before) But the young child these days wonand I was told that it wouldn't be much different, for good or bad, and so they will like discussed any further as not want a book it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about broom-brooms for the shelf''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. And this is pretty much the go-to volume for such an interestThankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1526362759|title=In FocusDosh: CitiesHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close UpsWhat a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, Crosshow to acquire more of it (nope -Sections robbing banks is out) and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here wewhat you can do with it when you're restricted ve managed to just tenget hold of it. Why? Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home You might want to 37 million peoplego into business, of all things. Yesbe a clever shopper, wea saver (you might even become an ''investor''re talking cities) and there might be something you really, and while this book tries ''really'' want to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territorybuy. WeThere're seeking s also the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety possibility of using to be had do good in the world's metropolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang AB178112938X|title= Minecraft Guide to CreativeSurvival in Space: An Official Minecraft Book From MojangThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating= 3.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= Minecraft isnIt't just about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches to stop s fifty years since the Skeletons Apollo 13 mission was launched from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival mode there is also the Creative sidestories of all time. This book explores what you can do when you aren ''t having to make everything from scratch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to ExplorationSurvival in Space: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenThe Apollo 13 Mission's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Geraldo Valerio1609809173|title=My Book of Birds|rating=4|genre=ChildrenEiffel's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habit, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere. It was in the family, too, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that was spectacular, and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had this book as a youngster, who knows – I may have come out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of the bird world in snippets of text, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robert Hansen|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts Tower for kids of all ages|rating= 3|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= An introduction to coding aimed at ages 10 and upwards. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately it just falls flat of its goals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYoung People|author=Dan Farrell and Donna Bamford|title=The Movie Making BookJill Jonnes|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded onto. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerBrash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, but with awful fidelity)the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. In The French Republic laid out model villages from alltheir colonies, put on art shows, making a film was a big old faffdance performances, but trying food festivals and concerts to do anything fancy was almost impossiblestun the senses. There is no longer this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devicesAnd towering above it all, but just because they can do something does not mean they will be any goodthe most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Hopgood1848576536|title=Doodle DogsHumanatomy: Best in ShowHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=4.5

|summary=''Doodle DogsGet under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ' introduces a wide variety of artistic styles through the idea of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds of dogs'Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, all of which can be created very easily, and I don't see how you soon find that doodling could resist. This informative book provides a dog can be a lot more detailedwonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and interestingdigestion, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>right up to the DNA that makes who we are.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor MeredithLangford_Emily|title=Think and Make Like an ArtistEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from the Tate Modern by my partner for making too many snarky remarksEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, I am not sure that I ever want you can count anything and there's no limit to think or make like an artisthow far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most artShe knew all about odd and even numbers. I see a rain dirty valleyThen she began counting in threes: half of the list were even numbers, but the artists sells other half was odd and it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you Brigadooncounted in threes which she called ''threeven''. A lot (Actually, this confused me a little bit at first as they're a subset of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to represent; be a subset of the even numbers, but it all worked out well when I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed. Therefore, to teach art appreciation to a young audience will hold them in good stead and could also be great funreally thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKBuckingham_Dawn|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. What a treat! As a child every question which I began with really did mean to just ''how do you spell...?glance'' would be answered with at ''EXACTLY as it says in The Little Book of the dictionaryDawn Chorus''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because pull of the font sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was small far too much to resist on a cold and difficult to readrather wet February morning. Fortunately those times have now changed I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and reference book for children are now much more invitinglistening to their song. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it's worth studying was just as good the ''How tosecond time around...'' section So, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyPankhurst_Women|title=First Science EncyclopediaFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst

|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven A lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and went on politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to senior school: I wasnread about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn't alone in thistrue and there are plenty of women who, but it really was too late. Thankfullythroughout history, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animalsachieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageor created something never seen before. What's needed is a goodSo here, basic reference in this wonderful picture book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in from Kate Pankhurst, are the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British MuseumIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Origami, Poems and PicturesWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line ''Women in Sport'' is coming to one of us just before the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs Winter Olympics in South Korea in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff faceFebruary 2018. It was great fun celebrates a century and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewella half of the development of women's first book for childrensport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, ''The Big Bird Spot''covering sports as diverse as swimming, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptonfencing, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksriding, in amongst the guillemotsskating, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillsmuch more. Oh, Think of a sport and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher pioneering woman succeeding at it is very careless, because you're going to have to find them probably in every picturethis book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alice BowsherRooney_Dino|title=Lift-the-Flap Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Colour: OceanSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=When you think about itLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, it's quite startling that oceans cover most through various different ages of our planet and they're home to nearly half of all speciesdinosaurs, apart from humans. We don't know we meet a lot about the oceans either - less than 5% variety of the area has been exploredcreatures, some of whom are very familiar but it is an area some I'd never heard of outstanding beauty. With Alice Bowsher's ''Lift-before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the-Flap and Colour: Ocean'' children as young as two have the opportunity various dinosaurs are getting up to do a little exploration , with background noises, roars and squawks to colour their own pictures. accompany them! The flaps are book creates a stroke of genius: when we look at the sea we see little more dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the movement of the water, but how different it would be if you could see a little of what is going on underneathdinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809294</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Jane Gillespie and Yukai DuMason_poo|title=100 Steps for ScienceThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=3.5

|summary=Science I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children's poo jokes, but this book is a far reaching subject that covers almost everything that exists in brilliant! I sat and read it by myself when the Universe from the smallest specks kids had gone to the largest space bound objects. Point at anything school and found it fascinating! Who knew there will be some sort of scientist who has studied it. Trying was so much I didn't know about poo? The book manages to fit all of this into 100 hundred steps for children is ambitious and should be lorded, but if you are going to try both funny (and do this; at least make it readable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808050</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley silly) as well as being very interesting and Frances Castle|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago|rating=4educational.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=You'll like as not have seen Using a children's book before mixture of facts and harangued it for containing errors. This book has at least two hundredfigures, photographs and that's not funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a problem. Yes, in personifying little at the idea vulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of learning through your mistakespoo, we get ten large dioramas of historical activitywhy poos smell, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be there. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to try and find them allwhy wombats do square poos. 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>