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|author= Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince

|title= Ballerina Dreams

|rating= 4.5

|genre= Children's Non-Fiction

|summary= Africa is a place full of music and rhythm and joy of movement. It is not, however, always a place for the structured tuition and commitment required by ballet. Sometimes there are more pressing issues than whether your pointe shoes are darned or whether you have a pianist available or will have to dance to pre-recorded music. For Michaela, growing up in Sierra Leone, her concerns were more simple: where was her next meal coming from, and who was going to look after her now she had been left orphaned by the war.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057132973X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Katie Scott and Kathy Willis

|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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~~|author=Anne-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)~~

~~|title=The Ultimate Book of Space~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=Space. For all the huge, empty expanse of it, it's a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centre, in the hotbed of cosmology and space science that is Leicester, is chock full of things to touch, grip, pull and move around – and so is this book. It's a right gallimaufry of things that pop up out of the page, with things to turn and pull, and even an astronaut on the end of a curtain wire. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up the telescope, and swung a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Station. Educational fun like that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>~~

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