==Children's non-fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson
|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straight
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s the firmer rather than the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative and reassuring manner and in a form which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old and above.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracey Turner
|summary=This teachers' guide is designed to accompany [[The Big Field: A Child's Year Under the Southern Cross by Anne Morddel]]. The inspiration for the book came about when the author worked as a librarian at a school in the state of Paranã in Brazil. In trying to find a book about the seasons (and how the natural world around them changed) for children in the five to eleven age group she realised that none existed for the southern hemisphere. She set out to remedy the situation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186417</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Morddel
|title=The Big Field: A Child's Year Under the Southern Cross
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''My Mama and Papa work hard in the city and they're always busy. That's why we live on Granny's farm, Chloe and Baby and me.''
We never know the name, or gender of the narrator, but it's a gentle, sensitive voice which guides us through the seasons. The farm – Southern Cross - has been in the family for at least three generations, as Granny's grandfather burned all the trees in the big field and planted coffee and soybeans. Her father did the same but Granny says that she keeps forgetting to plough – but she says it with a smile. She has something else in mind for the field.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>2953186409</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lynn Cullen and Amy Young
|title=Moi and Marie Antoinette
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Marie Antoinette and her pug dog, Sebastien, had an idyllic life in her native Austria. She was the fifteenth child of the Empress, who, in the traditions of the time, used her children to make marriages which would strengthen her own position. Marie Antoinette was told at the age of thirteen that she was to marry a Prince – the grandson of the King of France. Sebastien narrates this charming tale of Marie Antoinette's journey to France, her marriage, life at Versailles and the birth of her daughter Therese. It stops mercifully short of her execution.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759774X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clarke Hutton
|title=A Picture History of Great Discoveries
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=As soon as I opened this book I was taken back in time by about half a century. In a frieze around my classroom walls were lithographs by Clarke Hutton and they're all to be founds here in this book first published in 1954. Unusually it's the illustrator who is given credit for the book with Mabel George's text only being acknowledged on the title page of the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199118353</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Walker
|title=The Human Machine
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In my youth (yes, alright – but it was quite some time ago) books for children about the human body were written in text-book style with some parts being obviously well-thumbed and others largely ignored other than by those who would be going on to do A level biology. As a result many people of my generation are ignorant about how their body really works – or only learn about it when something goes wrong. ''The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body'' is a welcome look at the subject written in a chatty and informal style and in a format familiar to the target age group of eight plus.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199116776</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clive Gifford
|title=Outstanding Olympics
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With 2008 being the year of the Beijing Olympics an authoritative book for children on the Olympic movement is opportune. The fact this one is written by Clive Gifford – sports fanatic and award-winning children's writer – is a real bonus. Gifford has a chatty style which pulls you in from page one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199117764</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ernie Malik
|title=Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
|rating=3
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Who would have thought that Prague in the Czech Republic could so convincingly masquerade as 1940s London, complete with authentic Routemaster buses and the lions of Trafalgar Square? This sleight of hand and many more are revealed in the Official Movie Companion to the forthcoming CS Lewis adaptation, ''Prince Caspian''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270593</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Horne and Tracey Turner
|title=101 Things You Wish You'd Invented and Some You Wish No One Had
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Gearing up for the long school summer holidays yet? If not, you probably should be. It always pays to plan in advance. Bored children aren't a pretty sight. You could certainly prepare yourself well by taking a look at the latest in Bloomsbury's 101 Things To Do series. This one is Things You Wish You'd Invented and it entertained me for a good few hours.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747591989</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Flynn
|title=The Ultimate Survival Guide For Boys
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=A potentially interesting book about how to survive in the wilderness or your back garden, which unfortunately misses the mark by not being enough of one thing or the other. It's worth a read, but you wouldn't take it on a dangerous camping trip to the back garden.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230700519</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Georgina Phillips
|title=Ouch! Extreme Feats of Human Endurance
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Everything from Shackleton to Ellen MacArthur, by way of the Japanese word for fried rice-field grasshopper, and 32 hour long after dinner speeches. ''Ouch!'' contains fascinating trivia on every page that children will love to repeat back to you at length.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454056</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today
|author=Dougal Dixon
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|rating=4.5
|summary=As a child and even during my daughter's childhood, dinosaurs had not really gripped the public consciousness in the way that they have done over the last decade or so. This was useful in reviewing If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today as it meant that I approached the book with interest and curiosity but without being burdened by a great deal of prior knowledge.
I was impressed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846966264</amazonuk>
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