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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer1839948493|title=The Street Beneath My FeetA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=ItIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I's one thing for m a non-fiction book sucker for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yarddogs. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real lifeIn nearly eight decades, why, then the game is changedI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying I wish I felt the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a booksame about human beings. And this example does it at its bestSo, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yardany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetdevour. And thereThen I's only one way m going to go from there – back out the other sideand read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with yet more for us ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be shownmy four-legged friends. ItAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a fantastic journey, lot about dogs since then – and a quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuval Zommer1529507987|title=The Big Repair Shop Craft Book of Beasts |author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Big BooksIllustrator)

|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature I love ''The Repair Shop''. It's my go-to programmewhen I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth to the obvious one of all the blood people who own them and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse)memories they hold. You'll No expense appears to be pleased spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to know, however, that this book is very light on death and destructionachieve the desired result. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while Regular viewers know the females that caught experts and killed they're all brilliant at explaining what it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolthey're doing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk> But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola024162343X|title=My First Animals Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a child, 'god'What's That. Where was the proof?'' You will hear In history lessons, it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regretwas probably worse still. Sometimes they will point at something that is not Not too familiar. Here long after the parental practise end of making something up comes into play – itWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's a bird type thingsuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adultLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to a toddler learning about approach 'the world they are a whoproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's who of what's that'Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea Beaty Jeremy Dronfield and David RobertsZiggy Greene|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersFritz and Kurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=For a long time nowWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the sciencesempty market place, engineering helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and suchlikeat a vocational school. But I know of Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at least two sources of role models in that regardtheir very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. One, most obviously, But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is ''Star Wars'' – letgoing to cave to Hitler's face itwill, the latest main film had and instead of having a girl who scavenged parts but could fly national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Millennium FalconKristallnacht'' with easehappened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, and as did all the likes round-ups of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesJews. If you don't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for These in their turn leave the younger audience, there is the output Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Before|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I dread an evacuation to think how old Britain or the atlas we used when I was a child wasUS, but at least we had onewhile Fritz and his father are, and I didn't need unknown initially to go each other, packed off on the same train to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas And us wondering how the titular event for the family shelves that adult variant of all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is the one to have.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty1913750353|title=Stephen BiestyBritannica's TrainsWord of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|genre=ArtChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you can see. They want need to know how it worksabout this brilliant book. Getting to grips It starts on January 1st with one in real life is quite a big ask''Razzmatazz'', but the next best thing is tells you how to pronounce it (''Stephen Biestyraz-muh-TAZ's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world ), gives you a definition and spanning then includes the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach word in a speed of 430 kph sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches think I've ever encountered a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and word which uses the train is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Rachel IgnotofskyMoira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and celebrates their achievementswatch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. There are women An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ancient world ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and women working todaywho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Each of them is given It would have been wonderful if, as a double page spread including child, I'd had access to a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page book such as ''The Secret Life of text with a brief biography and outline of her achievementsBirds''. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK0192779230|title=Forest Life and Woodland Creatures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods Very Short Introductions for yourself. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, and a few lessons. Curious Young Minds: The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly is the edutainment going to provide, and what will it demand Invisible World of us?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273110</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=DK|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesIsabel Thomas|rating=45

|summary=Never before 'Germs' seems to have I found much cause become a catch-all word to point out cover anything unpleasant which has the sort of lower-casepotential to make you ill. In the first book in what looks to be a very promising new series, almost-OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a-subtitle wording on clear and accessible introduction to the front world of a bookgerms. I say that because very little of this is We get an informed look at how people originally thought about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here diseases and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then what they may well be disappointedthought caused them and how the thinking has developed over time. If you take it on board that the The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'other sea creaturesspeak like a scientist' make up the bulk which explains some of the booktrickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, fungi, then all well protists and viruses – and goodhow we should protect ourselves. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theo Guignard1800464495|title=Labyrinth100 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

|summary=Of all ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the books published for peoplewomb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''s paper-based hobbies when  Did you know this? I was didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a youngsterstrong predictor of later achievement, it's remarkable double that all of them have been revisited and revampedliteracy skills. '' I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouringknow this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy -in booksreading stories, teaching pen grips, but singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they were availablestart school. But do we think the same way about maths, if you'd gone beyond counting? I don'join the dots'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. }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1406395404|title=The Awesome Power of Sleep: How Sleep Super-Charges Your Teenage Brain|author=Nicola Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=2020 has been a strange year: I read only recently doubt anyone would argue with that origami is allegedly coming back – statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origamisome teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I've got loads to be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pencefrom children to adults will have the odd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. But And there's also the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format fact that for far too long, lack of the maze booksleep has been lauded as a virtue and sleep made to seem like laziness. This is the modern equivalent – but boyBeing up early, hasn't working late has been praised and the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>ability to survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767343|title=Life Count on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating=4.5

|summary=IThe title and format of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it'm sure I was full of questions when I was s a nipper – which means I was too full of questionsbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. Parents just donIt isn't need to be deflecting questions all the time, do they? Living on the edge of : it's a village in the middle hymn of nowhere as I did, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that the crops behind our house changedpraise to maths. But for the inner city child, there It's about why maths is a chance they have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright so wonderful and how you meet it in both senses of the word, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysideeveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Heather Alexander and Andres Lozano1849767009|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I wonder how much time IThis could have been one of those books which 've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had preaches to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is earwax, OK and why do I have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and -bothered person in the answers supermarket who is coughing fit to them and bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more are in this than a book, which is about not wearing clothes. It's a lovely primer for biology, celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and a great source of quick facts for the very youngevery possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachthey're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Hibbert1776572858|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldHow Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionHome and Family|summary=One of the problems with presenting humankindIt's history as a timeline is more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that not she'd get me a lot happened at perfectly identified timesbook about it. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration A couple of Independence days later I was signedhanded a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (and even whyclinical language which had never been used in our house before) the Maya cities died out? We donand I was told that it wouldn't knowbe discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. How do you pin a date to the Renaissance, or the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal of key moments in timeI ''knew'' more, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising the specific days and dateswas little ''wiser''. Get over thatThankfully, and the pages are packed with informationtimes have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1526362759|title=Baby Dinosaurs (Follow the Trail)Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary= If you ever have the misfortune What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how to stumble across some as yet undiscovered dinosaur I offer this piece acquire more of advice; don't take your finger it (nope - robbing banks is out) and track their spine, donwhat you can do with it when you't put ve managed to get hold of it in their mouth and . Your reasons for wanting money don't go following them matter: we all need it to their parentsome extent. InsteadYou might want to go into business, runbe a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buy. Run faster than you have ever run before in There's also the opposite direction. The unfortunate thing is that anyone with a toddler knows, they love possibility of using to grab and poke anything – including terrible lizards if they got do good in the chanceworld. Better play safe than sorry and just get them a book that allows them to get their dinosaur touching thrills vicariously. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241273129</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft178112938X|title=Amazing Animal BabiesSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Many children love animalsIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but they love baby animals even morethe story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? ''Survival in Space: The answer Apollo 13 Mission'' is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling brilliant retelling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownwhat happened. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins Kathleen Boucher and Stephen BiestySara Chadwick|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo Nine Ways to the Mars Rover Empower Tweens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''9 Ways to Empower Tweens'' is a self-help book for tweens, setting out to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and Beyondfor young adults too, but there is a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space explorationBrash and elegant, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftsophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the processes we needed to be expert 1889 World's Fair in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not Paris encompassed the centre of everything – best, the gradual discovery of how curved worst and the planet was, beautiful from many countries and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvescultures. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying The French Republic laid out model villages from all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately textstheir colonies, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time nowput on art shows, however, they've been anything but statelydance performances, food festivals and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual designconcerts to stun the senses. They certainly long ago shod the boringAnd towering above it all, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|title= Pairs Underwater|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Following on from [[Pairs in the Garden by Smriti Prasadam-Halls most popular and Lorna Scobie]], comes the aquatic themed ''Pairs Underwater''. It's a lift-the-flap book with the added twist of a game of ''Memory'' thrown in, as you try most hated monument to match French accomplishment and daring – the pairs across each double page spreadEiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa1848576536|title=Little People, Big DreamsHumanatomy: Marie CurieHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=Some little girls want to be princesses''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, but the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be a scientist. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do well and won honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a gold medal for her studies. In Poland, in wonderful primer about the middle of human body to curious children- from the nineteenth century, only men were allowed skeletal system to go to Universitythe muscular system via circulation, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar language, but was soon the best maths respiration and science student. It was here that she met and married Pierre Curiedigestion, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work. Marie was the first woman right up to receive the honourDNA that makes who we are. Pierre was killed in a road accident, but Marie went on to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa MunsoLangford_Emily|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Agatha ChristieEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|summary=As a child Agatha Christie and her mother would read a book together every afternoonEmily found words ''useful'', but there were early signs of counting was what the future novelist would become: she always had loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, but then Emily moved a better idea about how the story should endstep further and began counting in twos. She would read in bed at night knew all about odd and detective novels were always her favouriteseven numbers. In Then she began counting in threes: half of the First World War Agathalist were even numbers, who but the other half was odd and it was then this list of odd numbers which occurred when you counted in her early twentiesthrees which she called ''threeven''. (Actually, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons and toxic potions would be put to good use when her this confused me a little bit at first detective novels were published just after as they're a subset of the end odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the war. Most people have heard of her first and most famous detective - Hercule Poirot - or of Miss Marple. Mrs Christie's novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatreseven numbers, but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieBuckingham_Dawn|title= Pairs in The Little Book of the GardenDawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'Pairs in ' at ''The Little Book of the gardenDawn Chorus'' is but the pull of the sounds of a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawliesdozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. It's a lift- I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get birds and listening to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pairtheir song. But beware! You cannot Then - just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is I could - I went back and did it all alone with no partneragain and it was just as good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marc MartinPankhurst_Women|title=LotsFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=35

|summary=The children's encyclopaedia A lot of history is not the same genre about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. Sometimes, it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, let alone ones young girls might like to read about or regard as those used by adultsrole models. Whilst the older generation had to make do with giant tomes filled with information Of course, this isn't true and perhapsthere are plenty of women who, throughout history, if you are luckyhave achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, a small black and white picture every now and again; the kids get full colour books with more images than factsor created something never seen before. ''Lots'' by Marc Martin takes So here, in this even further by reducing wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the facts even further and bombarding your eyeballs with illustrationsstories of some of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Mihulka and Krystyna Poray GodduIgnotofsky_Sport|title=KrysiaWomen in Sport: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War IIFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=Most of us would think of Polish children suffering ''Women in World War Two because of the Nazi death camps – they and their families suffering through countless round-ups, ghettoization, and transport to the end of the line, where they might by hint or dint survive Sport'' is coming to tell the horrid tale. But most of us would think of such Polish children as Jewish victims of just before the HolocaustWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. This book opens the eyes up in It celebrates a century and a most vivid fashion to those who were not Jewish. They did not get resettled in half of the Nazi ''Lebensraum'', but were sent miles away to the East. Krysiadevelopment of women's family were split upsport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, partly due to her father being a Polish reservist when the Nazis invadedcovering sports as diverse as swimming, and then courtesy of Stalinfencing, who had [[The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalinriding, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse|signed a pact]] with Hitler dividing the country between the two statesskating, before they turned bitter enemiesand much more. Krysia's family, living in the eastern city Think of Lwow, were packed up a sport and sent – a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the stereotypical cattle train – eastthis book somewhere. And east, and east – right the way across the continent to rural Kazakhstan, Each entry is a double-page spread with a brief biography and a communal farm in the middle of anonymous desert, deep in Communist Soviet landsstriking portrait. Proof, if proof were needed, that that horrendous war still carries narratives that will be new to us…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1613734417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon Rogers|title= Infographics: Technology|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=As parents, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with the latest technological advances. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ben Handicott and Kenard Pak|title= The Hello Atlas|rating= 4|genreisbn= Children's Non-Fiction|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>}}{{newreview|author=DKRooney_Dino|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>}}{{newreviewDiscovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk Rooney and Robb Booker (translator)|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceSuzanne Carpenter

|summary=SpaceLift the flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. For all the hugeThis one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layer, empty expanse through various different ages of itdinosaurs, it's we meet a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed variety of cosmology and space science that is Leicestercreatures, is chock full some of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this book. Itwhom are very familiar but some I's a right gallimaufry d never heard of things that pop up out of the pagebefore! Each scene peels open, with things to turn and pulllayer by layer, and even an astronaut on showing you what the end of a curtain wire. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut various dinosaurs are getting up to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescopewith background noises, roars and swung squawks to accompany them! The book creates a Soyuz supply module around so dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it could dock at 's very visual, placing the International Space Station. Educational fun like dinosaurs in their habitats and giving us sounds too that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientistspike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonMason_poo|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model The Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Book Set (Harry Potter)Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

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