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|author= Joshua Davidson
|summary=I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a nipper. Since then the science regarding them has evolved leaps and bounds. We've got in touch with them perhaps being feathered, 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 like. But science will never stop, and the next generation will need to be on board with the job of discovering them, analysing them, and presenting them to a world that never seems to get enough of the nasty, superlative beasties of Hollywood renown. As you're the kind of person to ask questions, you may well ask 'how do you get that next generation ready for their place in the field and in the laboratory?' I would put this as the answer – even if it is made itself of a hundred questions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808972</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano
|title=Life on Earth: Jungle: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=We're constantly being asked to save something. Save the hedgerows, save the elephant, save our seas. There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of those goals – some of them are larger than the others, and more demanding, but they are all worthy. But seeing as it's (a) the largest land feature we need to save, and (b) it's the most worthwhile to save, why not just go for the jugular – and try and save the Amazonian rainforest? Forget jugular, you'll be saving the jaguar; you'll be protecting the source of a lot of our food, spices and medicines – and when did a hedgerow near you have almost fifty different species of ant on a singular tree? The first step to saving anything is to understand it, to let us appreciate it, and this primer is how we get in touch with what's important about jungles so we can deem them worthwhile.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Dale and Giusi Capizzi
|title=Cool Duck and Lots of Hats (Early Reader)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Children are a little like Pokemon; you may not be able to house them in a Pokeball, but they are always evolving. Your little kiddo may have spent the first couple of years or so intent to sit on your lap and listen to you read a story, but at some point they are going to want to read themselves. This is not the moment to lend them your copy of ''Lord of the Rings'' as their own first books will actually be simpler stories than the books that you have shared together. You need to know your ducks and your hats before you can tackle what on Earth a Gruffalo is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862490</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Schossow
|title=Where is Grandma?
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging Readers
|summary=Meet Henry. He's a young lad being taken by a nanny to hospital to check up on his grandma, who's in having had an accident. It's a shame, then, that said nanny is so busy yacking into her phone to look after him, for he ends up going off on his own adventure to find his gran. And what an adventure – babies being born, people with stomach problems, chemo, beans stuck up their nose… all life is here in this hospital, and both that and the lad's mishap are clearly and very pleasantly conveyed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571541</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jill Atkins and Barbara Vagnozzi
|title=Peck, Hen, Peck! and Ben's Pet (Early Reader)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It probably sounds obvious, but you really shouldn't keep your pet chickens in a bag! Well, that's what I learned from this book which tells us first the story of Tom who puts his hen in a bag. The hen pecks through the bag, as hens are wont to do, and escapes! A simple and somewhat tragic tale! This is swiftly followed by a story about Ben's pet. Will it be another hen, I wondered? No, actually, after several incorrect guesses, we discover that Ben's pet is only a rabbit!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862482</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alice Hemming and Louise Forshaw
|title=Buzz and Jump! Jump! (Early Reader)
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=After hearing a mysterious buzzing in the kitchen, mum traps a fly in a jar, but then she hears the buzzing again...what could be going on? Meanwhile, Ken the Kangaroo (who declares himself to be the best at jumping), is jumping everywhere he can. In this red level book, aimed generally at those who have completed their reception year in school, there are two simple, sweet stories in one book, perfect for those who are just learning to read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alice Hemming and Julia Seal
|title=Bamboo and I Wish (Early Reader)
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=With two stories in one book, there's plenty to like about this simple, and funny, early reader. The first story, Bamboo, deals with a cheeky panda who has run off to hide. Where can he be? The second story is about a wishing well which is granting wishes left, right and centre! Evaluated as a red level book, it sets itself as being about the right level for those around the end of their reception year.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862512</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephan Lomp
|title=Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild Chase
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Meet Wilfred and Osbert. They're not only the kind to completely flout the rules of the natural history explorer's club they belong to, but when they both spot an undiscovered butterfly together, they are the kind to fight tooth and claw to be the first to lay claim to it alone, and devil take the other one. What they don't know 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 of them just so 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>
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{{newreview
|author=Libby Walden and Stephanie Fizer Coleman
|title=Hidden World: Forest
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Sometimes, less is more. But a wood doesn't understand that, does it – it just stretches on and on, expanding outwards 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 a grip on the life in the forest, whether they can actually see it for the trees in real life or not…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575971</amazonuk>
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