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|author=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frost
|title=The School of Music
|rating=3
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with music. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time). Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammit. But hey, what's the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active in music? This book, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage and inform. But does it?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince
|summary=''Sannu! Kina lafiya?'' That's how Azumi greets us in this book. He's from Africa, and he speaks Hausa. Do you? Don't worry if not, because you're about to learn.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808492</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=DK
|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type of book, but it's not always the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over the page with nary an image in sight. This dry type of learning is never going to work with some of our modern youth, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phones, than researching real ones in a book. If you want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to see.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>
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