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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gianni Sarcone and Marie Jo Waeber1839948493|title= Optical Illusions|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary=I used to work as a library assistant and I remember arriving to work one morning to find all A World of my fellow librarians crowded around a book, chattering excitedly and...squinting rather oddly. The book was called ''Magic Eye'' and promised a magical 3D viewing experience if you looked at the psychadelic pictures in a certain way. For a brief period in the early 90s, the pictures had a sudden spike in popularity, until everyone presumably got eye strain and went back to their everyday lives. Well good news Magic Eye fans! The pictures are back (albeit only two images), in the engrossing and immersive new book ''Optical Illusions.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784938475</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Joey Chou|title=Make Carlie Sorosiak and Play: NativityLuisa Uribe

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I always feel must tell you that I'm a slight disappointment sucker for children at Christmas when theydogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn're presented with a tree to decorate with a box of ornaments t trust and a nativity scene (sometimes quite precious, so itI's Not To Be Played With) which is set up Somewhere Safeve loved most of them. Where's I wish I felt the imaginationsame about human beings. So, the creativityany book about dogs, the sense of pride in that? I'm going to sit down and devour. How much better Then I'm going to have a child create their own nativity scene, which they can then play with? go back and read it properly. That's exactly what they get And so it was with Joey Chou's 'A World of Dogs'Make and Play Nativity', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000064</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1529507987|title=50 Things You Should Know About the VikingsThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=You might think, what with books about dinosaurs being just as varied (and almost as old) as dinosaurs themselves, that there was little to say about them that hadnI love ''The Repair Shop''t been said, and few new ways of giving us information about them. Well, It's my go-to programme when I would put it want to you that this is be cheered up. After a novel varianthard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Over many jumbo spreadsYou see, we get a different dinosaur the value is in a different situation each time, whether it what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they hold. No expense appears to be being born, being slain or learning to fly, spared and the book gives us all experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the usual facts, not in chronological order, nor in some other more spurious fashion, but grouped by where these dinosaurs liveddesired result. The continent-wide chapters have several entrants in each, Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what with the book hitting all corners of our current globe, it brings the world of dinosaur remains right to our door, and makes this old subject feel remarkably new…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030349</amazonuk>is they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Harry Bloom024162343X|title=Pirates Magnified: With a 3x Magnifying GlassStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5

|summary=It's becoming easier and easier to spot books for I was the young about pirates – that surely is about bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the only career from existence of a 'god'. Where was the seventeenth century that gets so many volumes produced about proof? In history lessons, itwas probably worse still. It must be a combination Not too long after the end of the derring-doWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the illegality, and of course the fancy dress and silly speak that appeals – nowhere else would you see a youngster studying one countryBritish army's attacks on another, successes (and reading about how treasuresoccasional failures, slaves and other resources changed hands. This volume, however, tries its best but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to stand out, and has adopted be called 'the equally prevalent concept of getting colonies' as want to dispute what right the reader army had to pore over large dioramas to seek the small detail hidden be there in the imagesfirst place. For onceLooking back, though, thereI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a thoroughly educative reasoning behind it''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030276</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caroline AllistonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects for Budding EngineersFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours''Build It! 25 Creative STEM Projects each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for Budding Engineers'' takes using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a strictly hands-on approach light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to science cave to show how scientific ideas can be applied Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to realkeep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-world situationsups of Jews. The book contains 25 projects These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with varying degrees his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of complexity an evacuation to demonstrate topics such as air travelBritain or the US, programmable machineswhile Fritz and his father are, lightunknown initially to each other, motion packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and electricitythe stone quarry there. The book is designed with And us wondering how the younger scientist in mind, so there is a focus on titular event for the fun aspect, with many adult variant of the projects involving toys.all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784938483</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Knowles and Chris Madden1913750353|title=We Travel So FarBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=The lead singer ''Britannica's Word of Foreigner said the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'I've travelled so far which probably tells you all that you need to change know about this lonely lifebrilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'' Well, hetells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ's gone nowhere in comparison to many of these creatures, who probably wouldn't call their life lonely, either. Masses of animals gather, herd, school), gives you a definition and fly then includes the word in unison, a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and all make their migration to change their livesfrequently amusing illustration too. Some hide from the danger of winter storms, many seek I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the food they need letter Z four times before hibernation or their first meals after breeding, some just trot up a volcano to lay eggs in the one place they know will keep them warm. It might seem to be an unusual approach – having a sparsely-texted book solely about one aspect of animal nature, but on this evidence it's an approach that certainly works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910277339</amazonuk>!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0711266204|title=13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About EverythingThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=Having the Internet in the home for I have recently discovered a child to learn from is all well great pleasure: I sit and good, but it won't replace an encyclopaedia. For one thing, there definitely is an instance of having too much watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a good thing – it is no use for the young mind to be exposed to every bit of knowledge we may have amasseddaily basis. No, you need someone authoritative enough to come along and collate the important bits, letting you learn just enough, and the key things you do need to know, all from one placeAn hour can pass without my noticing. This book doesnI't really term itself as an encyclopaediave established which species feed from the ground, that has which pop to be said, but its large format puts it on the shelf next to them, feeders for a quick snatch of some food and its colourful and educative mien proves it's who settles in for a very close relative, at least of the modern kindgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. What it has decided to do is to structure the world into certain subjectsIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, and I'd had access to give us 13½ facts regarding every topica book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. And So – what a diverse range of topics is it has amassed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241238935</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=My Encyclopedia Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Invisible World of Very Important AnimalsGerms|author=Isabel Thomas|rating=4.5

|summary=The animal kingdom is 'Germs' seems to have become a diverse one, full of creatures that do catch-all sorts of thingsword to cover anything unpleasant which has the potential to make you ill. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears In the first book in their practice. For budding vet-what looks to-be animals are a constant source very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of fascination germs. We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give thought caused themand how the thinking has developed over time. It is not practical to visit The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' which explains some of the zoo every daytrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, but getting an educational fungi, protists and viruses – and entertaining animal encylopedia ishow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1800464495|title=DK Children's Encyclopedia100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me ''Babies seem to be born with an encylopediaamazing number sense: it was a major purchase for them as they understanding shapes in the 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 this? I didn't really ! How about: ''doMaths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' books, but it was a treasure trove for me and  I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - it taught me how to find out information for myself and how to use an indexgives children a solid foundation when they start school. It opened my eyes to subjects But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? Idon'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already lovedt think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. In format, But why are we? Most of us use maths in size daily life without realising and content it was very follows that giving our children a similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging pre-school grounding will be just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bedas beneficial.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241283868</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1406395404|title=Life on EarthThe Awesome Power of Sleep: Dinosaurs: With 100 Questions and 70 LiftHow Sleep Super-flaps!Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Teens|summary=I was 2020 has been a big fan of dinosaurs when strange year: I was a nipperdoubt anyone would argue with that statement. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and boundsfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. WeSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, loads to be doing) and have assumed colours and noises they made – we can even extrapolate from their remains what their eyesight, hearing and so much more may have been likeothers will worry unnecessarily. But science will never stopMost people, and the next generation from children to adults will need to be on board with have the job odd bad night but worrying about your lack of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them sleep is only likely to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renownmake it worse. As youAnd there're s also the kind fact that for far too long, lack of person sleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to ask questionsseem like laziness. Being up early, you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field working late has been praised and in the laboratory?' I would ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questionson your CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767343|title=Life Count on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Out The title and format of all the things I wanted this book might lead you to be as a child, an architect was not one of them. Which is a shame, perhaps – I might have had a few Prince Charles-friendly ideas under my belt, and even if I hadnthink that it't exactly progressed at that I might have been more at ease at those stupid teams either about responsibility -bonding or it'build-s abasic 1-this2-or-that' exercises you are sometimes forced to undergo as an adult3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. I never knew I would ever hold any importance in my ability It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to draw buildings, conceptualise towns and create model structures of my own creations – partly because I knew I had no abilitymaths. But for the likes of Iggy Peck, the whole idea It's about why maths is never in doubt – he spends his entire time thinking of buildings so wonderful and how to improve on the ones he knows. And so, for the duration of your engagement with these pages, will youmeet it in everyday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419718924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun1849767009|title=My First Wild Activity BookIt Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=You sit down together as a family This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and ask your child what the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they would like avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to read from your bulging bookcasebust. Will they choose the timeless classic that you yourself read as But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a child? book about not wearing clothes. Perhaps they will pluck for It's a modern tale with its dayglo colouring celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and storyline based around pants? Nopeof every possible hue. Neither of theseBodies with disabilities and markings. All you will hear is ''Stickers!'They' re fine. Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with youIn fact, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity bookthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Martin and Essi Kimpimaki1776572858|title= Scientist Academy: Are How Do You Ready For the ChallengeMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Kids seem to have an innate curiosity It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the world around them. They are constantly asking basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn'How?t something which nice people talked about'' and . I ''Why?knew'' Curious kids and budding scientists are going to love the new more, but was little ''Scientist Academywiser'' book by Ivy Kids. Thankfully, which is filled with practical experiments and fun activities with an educational twisttimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240502X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Jones1526362759|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and EnvelopesDosh: Unicorns and RainbowsHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande

|genre=CraftsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I've What a problem with many colouring books relief! A book about money, for children: some initial effort goes into the colouring, but the chances are that little will be kept on a longwith clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope -term basis robbing banks is out) and what you can do with itwhen you's not particularly satisfyingve managed to get hold of it. How much better would Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be if the colouring produced something which could be sent to someone elsea clever shopper, who would appreciate that ita saver (you might even become an ''investor''s unique ) and that effort and care has gone into the card? How much better to give a child there might be something like you really, ''really'The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Unicorns and Rainbows'want to buy. There' than an ordinary colouring book which will soon be discarded?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000897</amazonuk>s also the possibility of using to do good in the world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephan Lomp178112938X|title=Wilfred Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Olbert’s Totally Wild ChaseStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. TheyIt're not only s fifty years since the kind to completely flout Apollo 13 mission was launched from the rules of the natural history explorer's club they belong toKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be story of that journey remains one of the first to lay claim to it alone, and devil take the other onegreatest survival stories of all time. What they don't know 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is that the drama that ensues when they're tailing this particular specimen will involve no end of peril – nearly drowning, almost being eaten by a lion, crashing a hot air balloon one brilliant retelling of them just so what happened to have in his pocket… This, then, is a fun and silly biology lesson – but that's only the best kind, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848696795</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Libby Walden Kathleen Boucher and Stephanie Fizer ColemanSara Chadwick|title=Hidden World: ForestNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Sometimes''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, less is moresetting out to show them vital #lifeskills. But a wood doesnDon't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and outwards, and upwards and upwards – it's quite a galling thing for a young person to understand. This book reverts to the very basic detail that will let the very young student get adults too, but there is a grip on the life needful space in the forest, whether they can actually see it an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for the trees in real life or not…tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>0228818826}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Hegarty and Marcelo Badari1609809173|title=Time Atlas: An Interactive Timeline of HistoryEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=3.5

|summary=While it's always useful for a child to have access to an atlasBrash and elegant, sophisticated, so they know where they are controversial and what there is in every other locationvibrant, itthe 1889 World's equally important that they know ''when'' they areFair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and what has happened at any other place in timethe beautiful from many countries and cultures. That's the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas''The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, which only has a few spreadsdance performances, but takes us right back food festivals and concerts to prehistorystun the senses. And towering above it all, through the birth of civilisation, most popular and up the most hated monument to today French accomplishment and daring – as well as asking a few questions of what might happen in the futureEiffel Tower. It is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland1848576536|title=Festivals Humanatomy: How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and CelebrationsJem Maybank|rating=5

|summary=Every day is a feast day''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, if you follow the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three people attributed to it. But thatand go inside your insides!'' That's just one religion, one way of thinking, one culture – the world is host what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to a whole lot moredo and honestly, and in every corner they have their own way of celebratingI don't see how you could resist. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat to guide This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the visiting spirits of the deceased back human body to their postcurious children-life homes; some rejoice in from the return of spring, or skeletal system to the bounties of the summer's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each other. But the world has a ritual calendar of events such as thesemuscular system via circulation, respiration and this is a brilliant book for digestion, right up to the young DNA that shows how diverse our celebrations can bemakes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Emma TrithartLangford_Emily|title=Myths and LegendsEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, when you think can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in twos. She knew all about it – not quite legend, odd and not just the religions even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: half of the dead civilisationslist were even numbers, but something like a mixture the other half was odd and it was this list of the twoodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Certainly some of the entries in (Actually, this pleasant confused me a little read hit on legend – King Arthur, Robin Hood – but we also seemed to believe bit at first as they were true, even if they didn't fit into any pattern re a subset of organised worship. But seeing the odd numbers but sound as it is though they ought to be a subset of the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologieseven numbers, but itall worked out well when I really thought about it.)}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just 's vital for 'glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the young sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to have some grounding in resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the subject, birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and this book is pretty it was just as good at providing suchthe second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie GuerrivePankhurst_Women|title=Dinosaur Detective's Search-and-Find Rescue MissionFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=4.5

|summary=This A lot of history is a horrific worldabout men. Monsters leer over Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all the mountain tops, therelet alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as role models. Of course, this isn's a giant octopus in one building t true and a green giant's arms coming through the windows there are plenty of anotherwomen who, throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, and everywhere you look someone has lost or created somethingnever seen before. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand to help. YesSo here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly on are the controls stories of his flying machine, he is able to visit all eleven zones, and find the five things requested some of him in eachthem. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim BialikIgnotofsky_Sport|title= Girling UpWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at teenagersfifty of its highest achievers, this book focuses on growing up covering sports as diverse as a girlswimming, fencing, riding, or ''Girling up'' if you willskating, and what much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour of teenage yearsis probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako ClulowRooney_Dino|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, eh? Wellthrough various different ages of dinosaurs, personallywe meet a variety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but some I've d never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animalheard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the gentle giants of Africa various dinosaurs are getting up to, with background noises, roars and Indiasquawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, but rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps 's very visual, placing the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live dinosaurs in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants habitats and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people giving us sounds toothat spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter CottrillMason_poo|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of LondonThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to the eleventh century and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of the Tower is told within this bookencourage your children's pagespoo jokes, only but this time book is brilliant! I sat and read it's told by myself when the ravens that live kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there. They are the Towerwas so much I didn's guardians who reside there permanently due t know about poo? The book manages to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, both funny (and silly) as well as being very interesting and after centuries of watching over the Tower they have their own version of history to telleducational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Hutton|title=Cool Physics|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about Using a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle mixture of wavefront sources''facts and figures, don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happenedphotographs and funny cartoons, so you're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motion, and come away having sniggered a little at the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, and all of these three things are vulture who poos on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that its own feet but also knowing a primer in the world lot about different types of physics is very much neededpoo, why poos smell, and why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>