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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]]==Children's non__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --fiction==__NOTOC__>{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Browne1839948493|title=Play The Shape GameA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45
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|summary=You might have already played In the shape game. It involves doing a squiggle on a piece interests of paperfull disclosure, then either I must tell you or someone else has to turn that squiggle into I'm a full picturesucker for dogs. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and now heI's playing it with 45 celebrities and youve loved most of them. Proceeds from I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and the auction of the artwork are devour. Then I'm going to [http://wwwgo back and read it properly.rainbowtrust And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends.org.uk The Rainbow Trust Children Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's Charity], who provide emotional and practical support to families who have learned quite a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic causelot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter1529507987|title=Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library CatRepair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)
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|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 I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a problemhard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. Both are attitudes which You see, the value is in what these possessions are likely worth to stay through life the people who own them and it’s obviously better that it’s the firmer rather than the lattermemories they hold. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative No expense appears to be spared and reassuring manner the experts spend as much time and in a form which effort as is easily readable required to girls of about nine years old achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and abovethey're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk> But how did they start?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner024162343X|title=Dreadful FatesStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5
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|summary=Imagine I was the delight you get, as a book reviewer, when you chance upon a title that stands out, by filling a nice handy gap bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the market youexistence of a 'd never even noticedgod'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, and doing it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so well you much want to alert learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as many people as possiblewant to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. This is such a timeLooking back, Dreadful Fates is such a book, and as for I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the gap… problem' politely. This book hits upon the darker corners of all those copious I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does it all for the under-thirteen audience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!Fritz and Kurt
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect We start with the pair of familiesbrothers 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 is that books comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are includedturned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. It But this is evident from the detailstime just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, trivia and facts here that you don’t need instead of having a fathernational vote to keep the Nazis out, a motherinvite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, or siblingsas did all the round-ups of Jews. You might even have several spreads These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of half- and step-siblingsan evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and copious parents herehis father are, there and everywhere. You might get unknown initially to have a nannyeach other, a cohort of family helpers, but one thing I would thrust packed off on anybody would be a collection of books at home – the same train to Buchenwald and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among themthe stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Platt1913750353|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45
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|summary=It is quite certain ''Britannica's Word of the reader of Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book will not be a bed tester. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', however broad the smile tells you how to pronounce it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream after. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisation(''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a slave, a drudge, or a worker definition and then includes the word in a Communist collective farmsentence so that you know how it should be used. But it is definitely You also get an eye-opener how all that engaging and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pagesfrequently amusing illustration too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!
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|rating=5
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|summary=Ever wanted to know about evolution, nature I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and stuff? Unsurprisinglywatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, this is which pop to the book feeders for you. If you're interested a quick snatch of some food and who settles in [http://wwwfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330508938?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0330508938 space It would have been wonderful if, black holes and stuff]as a child, then Glenn Murphy has also written a sister book in the ''Science: Sorted!'' series packed full of all the information youI'd want had access to know. It's all written with the fabulous quality that made [[Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy|Why is Snot Green?]] such a must-read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330508946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book such as ''The Way I See ItSecret Life of Birds'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood0192779230|title=The Great RaceVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The Amazing Round-The-Invisible World Auto Race Of 1908of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=In 1908, Henry Ford's Model T hadnGerms't yet brought cars seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the massespotential to make you ill. The pioneers of In the world of automobiles were experimenting and discovering just first book in what the car could dolooks to be a very promising new series, by driving right round OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the worldof germs. Except We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they didn't want to be pioneers. One of thought caused them and how the competitors, Antonio Scarfoglio, put it so perfectly when he said ''We had set out to perpetuate an act of splendid folly, not to open up a new way for menthinking has developed over time. We wished to The vocabulary can be madmen, not pioneers.confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a scientist' Isn't that about which explains some of the best quote trickiest concepts and you've ever read?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0810994895</amazonuk>ll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses – and how we should protect ourselves.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies1800464495|title=Gaia Warriors100 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The best way ''Babies seem to read this book is to treat it like a magazinebe born with an amazing number sense: flip the pages and dip understanding shapes in. I can guarantee that you will find something to catch your eye. Fashion addicts could start on page 136 ''Dressing for the climate''womb, foodies may prefer page 124 ''Rock-star food''. The array being aware of different typefaces quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and page colours make the book very easy to browse, comprehending addition and the author excels subtraction at explaining difficult concepts in a straightforward waynine months old. So certain sections in it could be considered not just as for older children or teen readers, but as an informative read for adults as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312347</amazonuk>}}''
I didn't 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 - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Turner1406395404|title=Deadly Peril and The Awesome Power of Sleep: How To Avoid ItSleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Have you ever wondered what to do if you're bitten by blue-ringed octopus, or if you find yourself up to your neck in quicksand? It's 2020 has been a dangerous world out there and Tracey Turner has all the information strange year: I doubt anyone would argue with that young explorers, daredevils and fact-hounds need to know.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folkstatement. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date Lots of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided the original had our routines have been better, completely dismantled and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselvessome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner|title=The Comic Strip History of Space|rating=5|genre=ChildrenSome teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('s Nonwho needs sleep? -Fiction|summary=Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner treated us I've got loads to a [[The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg be doing) and Tracey Turner|Comic Strip History of the World]]others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, and have now turned their attention to space. They explain to from children everything from the origins of the universe, to what ancient civilisations thought of the stars, through astronomers discovering adults will have the truth odd bad night but worrying about planets, right up your lack of sleep is only likely to current space missionsmake it worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594325</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Robinson|title=Bad Kids: the Worst-Behaved Children in History|rating=5|genre=Children And there's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm starting to wonder about also the type fact that for far too long, lack of person who would write such sleep has been lauded as a horrible virtue and terrifying book for children; it's as confusing as trying sleep made to work out an age category for this bookseem like laziness. ''Bad Kids'' is a gruesome look through history using the ways children were punished through the ages as a central core. It runs right through history from ancient Iraq Being up early, where you could get your fingers chopped off for hitting your parents (they only recently abolished that one) to the modern day working late has been praised and the use of ASBOs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230737870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Leroy Ripley|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you're looking for a book which is going ability to keep a child (or some adults!) happy for hours survive on end then look no further. So long as you don't mind the groans of (mock) disgust, screams of horror and constantly being asked little sleep has almost become something to look at (another) picture or listen as more is read to you then you should be absolutely fine. Following hot put on the heels of last year's success ''Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010'' is packed full of bizarre facts (some of which you might appreciate knowing – others you will definitely wish you didn't), fiends and freaksyour CV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847945856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Norton1849767343|title=The Bumper Book of Bravery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Bumper Book of Bravery looks at bravery in all its forms - from people in wars, to explorers enduring amazing hardships, through spies and revolutionaries, by way of sportsmen and women, even to brave animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264836</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCount on Me|author=Philip Ardagh and Mike Gordon|title=Dinosaurs (Henry's House)Miguel Tanco
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=HenryThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's House is extraordinary: either about responsibility - or it's full of fossils, footprints, and even real dinosaurs. Jaggers the caretaker and Mr Boffin show him around, explaining all about dinosaurs, as Henry sees a basic 1-2-3 book for himself those just what amazing creatures they were, and learns starting out on the differences between the various typesnumbers journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden|title=The Dangerous Book of Heroes|rating=3|genre=History|summary=For most of us (well, for me certainly) the word It isn'herot: it' summons an image of capes, spandex and garish primary colours. Conn and David Iggulden have written s a book about the other kind – the every day heroes from history, who achieve incredible things without the aid hymn of superpowerspraise to maths. From household names like Horatio Nelson and Winston Churchill, to lesser known people, like Aphra Behn and Hereward the Wake, It''The Dangerous Book of Heroes'' covers a comprehensive range of characters from the history of the British Empire. From campaigners for political change, brilliant battle strategists to daring explorers, each s about why maths is so wonderful and every one of the people how you meet it in this book lived brilliant lives and changed the world forevereveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000726092X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Brocket1849767009|title=Ripping Things It Isn't Rude to Dobe Nude|author=Rosie Haine
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The farmer sows This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the seed from which Penelope only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and Pete Pea growmarkings. They're pickedfine. In fact, packed, delivered, bought, cooked and eaten, and we follow them on every step of their journeythey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141502584</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicola Davies and Neal Layton1776572858|title=What's Eating How Do YouMake a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=Did you know that there are It's more than 430 types of parasites sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what she'd get me a book about it . A couple of days later I was like for me reading What's Eating You? It's handed a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and other animals - I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any science-loving child will lovefurther as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aidan Potts1526362759|title=The Smash! Smash! TruckDosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=35
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The SmashWhat a relief! Smash! Truck looks at the process A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of recycling glassit. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, taking in be a brief look at the Big Bangclever shopper, atoms a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the water cycle, possibility of using to explain why recycling is a do good ideain the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leo Hickman 178112938X|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all these questions and more in his new book, time. ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>is a brilliant retelling of what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cylin Busby Kathleen Boucher and John BusbySara Chadwick|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter MemoirNine Ways to Empower Tweens
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go 9 Ways to the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,Empower Tweens'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His was in an interesting case is a self- the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot in the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in halfhelp book for tweens, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front of his facesetting out to show them vital #lifeskills.Don''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Robins |title=Can t groan! I Come Home, Please?|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=Using the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sources, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children in different parts of Europe. The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it know there is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline market glut of WW2.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Adolph|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Nonsuch books for we grown-Fiction|summary=A fascination with family history seems more than just a passing fad: ups and for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and in a mobile (both geographically and socially) and globalised societyyoung adults too, people unable to answer but there is a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity needful space in pursuing an answer increasingly technological world accessible to 'where do I come from?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Various|title=Bob's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bob the Builder younger and his crew of machines live in the glorious Sunflower Valley and enjoy their work. However, as well as building new developments, they like to look after the world around them. Their motto is ''Reduce,'' '' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This book aims to introduce the youngest of younger children to the benefits of recycling, how to recycle and look after the world around them using characters that are familiar and in a way that teaches, not preaches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524657X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Valenzuela|title=Weighing It Up|rating=3|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebritiesfor material for tweens too. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>0228818826}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips1609809173|title=Planet In PerilEiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump with children1889 World's authors at Fair in Paris encompassed the forefront of best, the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of worst and the sort of information which would be given to an adult beautiful from many countries and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronisedcultures. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath of fresh air. WellThe French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, apartput on art shows, that isdance performances, from when food festivals and concerts to stun the loo gets a little too well usedsenses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Blackest Hole in Space|author=Penny Little And towering above it all, the most popular and Vincent Vigla|rating=2.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Charlie the most hated monument to French accomplishment and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their teadaring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stewart Ross1848576536|title=MoonHumanatomy: Science, History, How the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and MysteryJem Maybank|rating=45
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. Itgo inside your insides!''s hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rolf HeimannLangford_Emily|title=DragonmaziaEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Emily found words ''Dragonmaziauseful'' is packed to the rafters with detailed, engagingbut counting was what she loved best. Obviously, varied you can count anything and fascinating mazes. Therethere's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a strong dragon theme throughout, without ever getting sameystep further and began counting in twos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Then she began counting in threes: there are medieval dragons, Oriental dragonshalf of the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and a few cuddly dragons tooit was this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Each page generally has one big maze (Actually, with this confused me a few smaller mazes or puzzles dotted around it. It doesnlittle bit at first as they't have an overall narrative, re a subset of the odd numbers but there's plenty sound as though they ought to be a subset of detail to pore over beyond the mazes themselveseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>192127249X</amazonuk>)
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=We Are What We DoBuckingham_Dawn|title=Teach Your Granny To TextThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I loved this bookreally did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I loved spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the positive tone of this bookbirds and listening to their song. It is Then - just so packed full of great, interactive ideas for living a better life, that because I could - I even passed went back and did it onto to my household's resident politician. He agreed that there were lots of ideas in all again and it that capture was just as good the spirit of these new-austerity timessecond time around. So, and took a note of a few for his next council meeting. It's true!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320714</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Kindberg and Tracey TurnerPankhurst_Women|title=The Comic Strip Fantastically Great Women Who Made History of the World|author=Kate Pankhurst
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Comic Strip History A lot of the World'' history isabout men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as you though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might expectlike to read about or regard as role models. Of course, a comic strip history this isn't true and there are plenty of the world. It covers everything from the Big Bang to the present daywomen who, with each period of throughout history summed up in a page , have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or twocreated something never seen before. It's very much a potted history So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the vein stories of the Horrible Histories series and 1066 and All That. It's a fantastic book, both as a light fun read, and as a brief education into everything that has been beforesome of them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dugald SteerIgnotofsky_Sport|title=SpyologyWomen in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Agent K – also known as Spencer Blake – set out ''Women in Sport'' is coming to write this manual 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 fifty of Spyologyits highest achievers, otherwise known covering sports as Tradecraftdiverse as swimming, in the course of his last missionfencing, riding, skating, the deadly Operation CODEX. Obviously he saved the civilised world (again) but he apparently perished during the operation. No one was and much more surprised than the head of Special Intelligence Service (P.O. Box 850, London) when the manual which I now have in front Think of me turned up a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at the headquarters of MI6 it is probably in an unmarked envelope several months after Agent K disappeared. The original plan was to use it to train new recruits using various challenges based on Operation CODEXthis book somewhere. It's recently become available to the public under the fifty year ruleEach entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184011861X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Sparrow Rooney_Dino|title=Voyage Across The CosmosDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne Carpenter
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|summary=In Lift the course flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, we meet a year I see variety of creatures, some wonderful books of whom are very familiar but this must rank as one some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you what the most stunning that I've seen for a long time. Billed as ''a journey various dinosaurs are getting up to the edge of space , with background noises, roars and time'squawks to accompany them! The book creates a dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it' s very visual, placing the reader is off on a journey of a hundred dinosaurs in their habitats and thirty billion trillion kilometres from earth. On the way you'll see some breathtaking sights and get an idea of the unbelievable scale of the cosmosgiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245242</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marion BatailleMason_poo|title=Abc 3d|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Wow. This is an ABC book with a difference. The publisher's notes say it's "astoundingly beautiful" and it is. Marion Bataille's careful, ingenious alphabet pops up from the pages to amaze and entrance all who look. From A, a proud pyramid on the inside cover, to Z, standing on its side at the end, each letter of our alphabet has a personality of its own. E morphs into F, V mirrors itself and becomes W, and U is a cascade of parabolas. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595798</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPoo That Animals Do|author=Paul Kieve|title=Hocus PocusMason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don't want to encourage your children'Hocus Pocus'' s poo jokes, but this book is part biography of the greatest magicians of all time, part fictional tale of the author meeting them as they come alive from his posters, brilliant! I sat and part magic instruction manual. All read it by myself when the parts foster an interest in magic, kids had gone to school and act as an inspiration to the next generation of magicians.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759094X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Scarry|title=What Do People Do All Dayfound it fascinating! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=As its title suggests, the book is about what people do all day. Since different people all do different things, the book covers a lot of topics. The first section looks at Busy Town itself along the high street. This book truly shines with some of the best examples of Scarry's illustrations, as we see the town above ground, and below ground in intricate detail. We see the men digging tunnels manages to be both funny (and the underground pipes, street cleaners at work, and peeks into the bank and various shops silly) as well as the fire department, doctor, dentist, being very interesting and so oneducational. All are clearly labelled Using a mixture of facts and much fun is to be had after reading the narrativefigures, looking at photographs and discussing all the marvellous detail. As the book progressesfunny cartoons, we get to see what Mummy does all day you come away having sniggered a little at home, what the farmer doesvulture who poos on its own feet but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, the door to door salesman, the policeman, the fireman, the blacksmith, the postmen, the ferry workerswhy poos smell, and so onwhy wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007189508</amazonuk>
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