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|author=Alan Snow
|title=How Dinosaurs Really Work
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It’s sometimes difficult to find books which appeal to reluctant readers, particularly boys. Three cheers, then, for Alan Snow who has produced a really smashing book about those ever-popular dinosaurs. Here is a book which will appeal not only to bright kids during their inevitable dinosaur phase, and also to more struggling readers, a little later on. This is exactly the sort of book kids can pore over for several weeks on end in order to become something of an authority on prehistoric animals in front of their mates.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073141</amazonuk>
}}
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|summary=I first encountered Anna Quindlen when I read [[Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family by Anna Quindlen|Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family]]. I'm a sucker for non-fiction books about dogs but what struck me was that the book could have been trite. Instead it was elegant, witty and with a real eye for detail and social nuance. It was genuinely about life ''with'' Beau and what the family learned from him rather than - as so many such books are - what the family had done for the dog. The book struck a particular chord with me as our older dog was, we knew, on borrowed time (although her innate stubbornness kept her going for another two years) and Quindlen helped me to think about what Rosie had given us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955903X</amazonuk>
}}