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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Non-Fiction]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Libby Walden Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and Stephanie Fizer Colemandevour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529507987|title=Hidden World: ForestThe Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)

|summary=While itI love ''The Repair Shop''. It's always useful for a child my go-to have access programme when I want to an atlasbe cheered up. After a hard day, so they know where they are and what there is in every other location, it's equally important that nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they know ''when'' they are, and what has happened at any other place in timere worth. That's You see, the ethos behind this ''Time Atlas'', which only has a few spreads, but takes us right back value is in what these possessions are worth to prehistory, through the birth of civilisation, people who own them and up the memories they hold. No expense appears to today – be spared and the experts spend as well much time and effort as asking a few questions of what might happen in is required to achieve the futuredesired result. It Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what it is, after all, vital we know not only where we are, but where we may be going…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575920</amazonuk>they're doing. But how did they start?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Lawrence and Jane Newland024162343X|title=Festivals and CelebrationsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Every day is a feast day, if you follow I was the Christian calendar very closely – there are probably enough saints now for each day to have about three bad company other people attributed to itgot into at school. But thatI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god's just one religion. Where was the proof? In history lessons, one way it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of thinkingWWII, one culture – I didn't so much want to learn about the world is host to a whole lot moreBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, and but we didn't dwell on those) in every corner they have their own way of celebrating. Some poignantly light small fires and set them afloat what came to guide be called 'the visiting spirits of colonies' as want to dispute what right the deceased back army had to their post-life homes; some rejoice be there in the return of springfirst place. Looking back, or I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the bounties of maturity to approach 'the summerproblem's harvest; some just throw crap like tomatoes or coloured water over each otherpolitely. But the world has a ritual calendar of events such as these, and this is a brilliant book for the young that shows how diverse our celebrations can beI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra Lawrence Jeremy Dronfield and Emma TrithartDavid Ziggy Greene|title=Myths Fritz and LegendsKurt

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Mythology is a peculiar realmWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when you think about it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – not quite legend, the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and not workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the religions Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the dead civilisationsNazis out, but something like a mixture invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of the twoJews. Certainly some These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the entries in this pleasant little read hit on legend – King ArthurUS, while Fritz and his father are, Robin Hood – but we also seemed unknown initially to believe they were trueeach other, even if they didn't fit into any pattern of organised worshippacked off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. But seeing as it is And us wondering how the gospel truth that people lived by these mythologies, it's vital titular event for the young to have some grounding in the subject, and adult variant of all this book is pretty good at providing such.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575963</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Guerrive1913750353|title=Dinosaur DetectiveBritannica's Search-Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and-Find Rescue MissionSue Macy|rating=4.5

|summary=This is a horrific world. Monsters leer over all ''Britannica's Word of the mountain tops, thereDay''s has a giant octopus in one building sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and a green giantTickle Your Humerus''s arms coming through the windows of another, and everywhere which probably tells you all that you look someone has lost something. Luckily the Dinosaur Detective is on hand need to helpknow about this brilliant book. Yes, despite his paws looking incredibly ungainly It starts on the controls of his flying machineJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', he is able tells you how to visit all eleven zonespronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and find then includes the five things requested of him word in eacha sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. But can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786030713</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mayim Bialik0711266204|title= Girling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Girling up'' if you will, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that hideous detour The Secret Life of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399548602</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Catherine Barr Moira Butterfield and Hanako Clulow|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animalestablished which species feed from the ground, which pop to the gentle giants feeders for a quick snatch of Africa some food and India, who settles in for a good munch but it I wish I was good to find out more about themknowledgeable. Perhaps the most surprising fact which It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their 'd had access to a book such as ''grandmothersThe Secret Life of Birds''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant So – what is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Cottrill0192779230|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. Very Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this time it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of watching over the Tower they have their own version of history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Hutton|title=Cool Physics|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=If you aren't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'', don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind in physics. Brownian motion, and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, and all Invisible World of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that a primer in the world of physics is very much needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGerms|author=Stella Gurney, Matthew Hodson and Neave Parker|title=The Prehistoric TimesIsabel Thomas|rating=2.5

|summary=With 'Germs' seems to have become a catch-all word to cover anything unpleasant which has the ability potential to read make you ill. In the news on our phones or watch the 24 hour news channelsfirst book in what looks to be a very promising new series, OUP and Isabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the days world of the newspaper appear to be coming to an endgerms. You could say that We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they are going to be extinct, much like thought caused them and how the dinosaursthinking has developed over time. So, if newspapers are The vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 'speak like a thing scientist' which explains some of the past trickiest concepts and so are dinosaursyou'll soon be familiar with bacteria, it would make sense that dinosaurs had their own newspaper? Turns out this was the case fungi, protists and ''The Prehistoric Times'' covers several different eras on the hunt for only the best news viruses – and viewshow we should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809197</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Flintham1800464495|title=Around the World Colouring Book100 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|rating=4.5

|summary=Colouring books ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a useful good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way for children to relaxabout maths, develop manual dexterity and explore colourbeyond counting? I don't think we do, but in the dash to appeal to the child part because so many miss the opportunity to 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 gently educational ''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 doubt anyone would argue with that statement. Lots of our routines have been completely dismantled andfor some teenagers this will have brought about sleep problems. Some teens will dismiss this as irrelevant ('who needs sleep? - I' ve got loads to still appeal be doing) and others will worry unnecessarily. Most people, from children to adults will have the youngodd bad night but worrying about your lack of sleep is only likely to make it worse. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: itAnd there's got page upon page also the fact that for far too long, lack of pictures to colour (with just sleep has been lauded as a little narrative virtue and sleep made to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersseem like laziness. You'll see grey shapes - Being up early, working late has been praised and that's the signal ability to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>survive on little sleep has almost become something to put on your CV.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Roberts and Alan MacDonald1849767343|title=My Burptastic Body Book (Dirty Bertie)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco

|summary=Oh, to be young and innocent, The title and format of this book might lead you to be full of questions. Questions like think that it'is eating my bogies good for me', s either about responsibility - or it'why is poo brown', or 'what makes sweat smell's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. You donIt isn't have to be a kid like Dirty Bertie to want to know the answers – respectively, no; : it's down a hymn of praise to dead bacteria; and it doesn't – it's other bacteria againmaths. If you think you have a lad (or, letIt's face about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it, a lass) interested in learning such stuff, this book could well be the place to turneveryday life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Raskin1849767009|title=Grow: A Family Guide It Isn't Rude to Growing Fruit and Vegbe Nude|author=Rosie Haine

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=I worried when I looked at this bookThis could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''Growknow'', that it said, ''A family guide s shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to growing fruit and veg''bust. Why did But... Rosie Haines makes it worry me? into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Well, itIt's a mere 48 pages celebration of bodies: bodies large and the cover says that it includes ''Games, stickers small and MORE!'' of every possible hue. I have weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to know about growing fruit Bodies with disabilities and veg, so wasnmarkings. They't this going to fall a little short? re fine. WellIn fact, it doesnthey't - not at allre wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak1776572858|title=Rainforest Masks: Ten 3D Rainforest Masks to Press Out How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and MakeDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I have been having the most tremendous fun making rainforest masks: you know the effect asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that you she'd get when me a really talented face artist does book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a young childpamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn's face and you t be discussed any further as it ''seewasn't something which nice people talked about' the tiger? Well, this is an even better result and it's in 3D. All the creatures are, as you would expect, from the rainforest regions of the worldI ''knew'' more, but therewas little ''wiser''s decidedly more here than the usual suspects. You get a green iguanaThankfully, toucan, jaguar, emperor tamarin, blue morpho butterfly, red-eyed tree frog, Brazilian tapir, giant otter, blue-and-yellow macaw and the emerald tree boatimes have changed. Never heard of some of them? Well, don't worry: the book is gently educational, with a paragraph telling you just enough about the creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robyn Swift and Sara Lynn Cramb1526362759|title=National TrustDosh: Complete Night Explorer's KitHow to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=45

|summary=There is What a misfortune to the modern worldrelief! A book about money, for children, in that we have killed off a common hobby from when I was a lad. Nowadays light pollution with clear explanations of what it is so awful , why it's certainly not uncommon for people matters, how to hardly see any acquire more of the stars it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get to learn the constellations, and while I only went out to go hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don'meteor hunting', t matter: we all need it's patently obvious that the chance to lie down and stargaze is a dying onesome extent. Elsewhere the nocturnal youth can struggle You might want to have much opportunity to explore the night-time nature as this book suggests – it begins with setting up go into business, be a tent in your back gardenclever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and too many donthere might be something you really, ''really''t even get that chance, for want of possession of oneto buy. Yes, if this book is only read once There's also the possibility of using to do good in the daytime and never referred to again, due to lack of opportunity, it really will be a crying shameworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638777</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldie Hawk and Rachael Saunders178112938X|title=National TrustSurvival in Space: Go Wild in the WoodsThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=I am a man who likes his creature comforts. Always have been, always will – and creature comforts donIt't involve snuggling down s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in a sleeping bagFlorida, however comfortable, to watch creatures, as far as I'm concerned. Luckily, however, many people are but the story of another bent entirely – they find no problem in getting out and about, taking whatever weather and wildlife can throw at them, and spending time out that journey remains one of doors for the hell greatest survival stories of itall time. This book is the first stage to that, and needs to be read in full before you step out your front door. And even if it's your 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'only'' stage, it will still be pleasantly educational…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085763917X</amazonuk>is a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Giles Chapman Kathleen Boucher and Us NowSara Chadwick|title=The Story of the CarNine Ways to Empower Tweens

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Dinosaurs… farm machinery… science fiction… trains… cars. I can't think of many other subjects that inspired the young me '9 Ways to have Empower Tweens'' is a full nonself-fiction help book about for tweens, setting out to show them on my juvenile shelvesvital #lifeskills. Most Don't groan! I know there is a market glut of course I lost interest such books for we grown-ups and for young adults too, but there is a needful space in with maturityan increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. But |isbn= 0228818826}}  {{Frontpage|isbn=1609809173|title=Eiffel's Tower for Young People|author=Jill Jonnes|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the young child these days won1889 World't be much differents Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, for good or baddance performances, food festivals and so they will like as not want a book about broom-brooms for concerts to stun the shelfsenses. And this is pretty much towering above it all, the most popular and the go-most hated monument to volume for such an interestFrench accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360268</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Libby Walden1848576536|title=In FocusHumanatomy: CitiesHow the Body Works|author=Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|rating=45

|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups, Cross-Sections and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book in this series]] promised 101 close-ups, cross sections and/or cutways, but here we're restricted to just ten. Why? Because the subject matters are so much bigger – one is home to 37 million people'Get under your own skin, of all things. Yes, we're talking citiespick your brains, and while this book tries to follow the previous – different artist every page, an exclusive go inside look within the volume, and a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely in new territory. Weyour insides!'re seeking the trivial, the geographical and the cultural, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety to be had in the world's metropolises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mojang AB|title= Minecraft Guide to Creative: An Official Minecraft Book From Mojang|rating= 3.5|genre= ChildrenThat's Non-Fiction|summary= Minecraft isnwhat ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't just see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about surviving Creeper attacks or crafting enough torches the human body to stop the Skeletons curious children- from spawning near your respawn point. Alongside the survival mode there is also skeletal system to the Creative side. This book explores what you can do when you aren't having muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to make everything from scratchthe DNA that makes who we are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABLangford_Emily|title= Minecraft Guide to Exploration: An official Minecraft book from Mojang|rating= 5|genre= ChildrenEmily's Non-Fiction|summary= Ever wondered how on Earth to get started with this 'ere Minecraft malarkey? Look no further as this is the guide for you! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285974</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNumbers|author=Geraldo Valerio|title=My Book of BirdsJoss Langford

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitEmily found words ''useful'', but counting was what she loved best. Obviously, you can count anything and there's no limit to how far you can go, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of but then Emily moved a village step further and began counting in the middle of nowheretwos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. It was Then she began counting in threes: half of the family, toolist were even numbers, but I resigned myself to never seeing much that the other half was spectacular, odd and once it was this list of odd numbers which occurred when youcounted in threes which she called ''threeven've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinking. If I'd had (Actually, this book confused me a little bit at first as they're a youngster, who knows – I may have come out subset of it differently, having been shown the diversity odd numbers but sound as though they ought to be a subset of the bird world in snippets of texteven numbers, and some quite unusual illustrations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>but it all worked out well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert HansenBuckingham_Dawn|title= Cool Coding: filled with fantastic facts for kids The Little Book of all agesthe Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 35|genre= Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= An introduction What a treat! I really did mean to coding aimed just ''glance'' at ages 10 ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and upwardslistening to their song. This book is filled with enthusiasm, information, fun and… unfortunately Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just falls flat of its goalsas good the second time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653230</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Farrell and Donna BamfordPankhurst_Women|title=The Movie Making BookFantastically Great Women Who Made History|author=Kate Pankhurst|rating=45

|summary=In my youth we had to make do with a camcorder that would fit a mini-tape that you recorded ontoA lot of history is about men. Kings and generals and inventors and politicians. This mini-tape would then slip into a casing that could be watched on your VHS (imagine something like a DVD playerSometimes, but with awful fidelity). In it feels almost as though there were no women in history at all, making a film was a big old faff, but trying let alone ones young girls might like to do anything fancy was almost impossibleread about or regard as role models. There is no longer Of course, this excuse for kids today with their camera enabled smart devicesisn't true and there are plenty of women who, but just because they can do throughout history, have achieved amazing things or shown incredible bravery, or created something does not mean they will be any goodnever seen before. So here, in this wonderful picture book from Kate Pankhurst, are the stories of some of them. A guide for movie making would certainly help! |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0711238871</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim HopgoodIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Doodle DogsWomen in Sport: Best in ShowFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=4.5

|summary=''Doodle DogsWomen in Sport'' introduces is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a wide variety century and a half of artistic styles through the idea development of a dog show! Tim Hopgood shows us different kinds women's sport by looking at fifty of dogsits highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, all and much more. Think of which can be created very easily, a sport and you soon find that doodling a dog can be pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double-page spread with a lot more detailed, brief biography and interesting, than you perhaps previously appreciated!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509820817</amazonuk>a striking portrait.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Boldt and Eleanor MeredithRooney_Dino|title=Think Discovering Dinosaurs|author=Anne Rooney and Make Like an ArtistSuzanne Carpenter|rating=4.5

|summary=Having been banned from Lift the Tate Modern flap books have progressed somewhat since I was a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by my partner for making too many snarky remarkslayer, through various different ages of dinosaurs, I am not sure that I ever want to think or make like an artist. My unartistic brain is unable to comprehend most art. I see we meet a rain dirty valleyvariety of creatures, some of whom are very familiar but the artists sells some I'd never heard of before! Each scene peels open, layer by layer, showing you Brigadoon. A lot of what makes art great is knowing what it is meant the various dinosaurs are getting up to represent; even I have been swayed on occasion once I have been informed. Therefore, with background noises, roars and squawks to teach art appreciation to accompany them! The book creates a young audience will hold them dinosaur experience, rather than just being facts about dinosaurs it's very visual, placing the dinosaurs in good stead their habitats and could also be great fungiving us sounds too that spike your imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMason_poo|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Poo That Animals Do|author=Paul Mason and Tony de Saulles|rating=4.5

|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with ''how do know, I know, sometimes you spell...?really don't want to encourage your children' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as s poo jokes, but this book is brilliant! I sat and read it says in by myself when the dictionary''. This kids had gone to school and found it fascinating! Who knew there was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary so much I didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small know about poo? The book manages to be both funny (and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed silly) as well as being very interesting and reference book for children are now much more invitingeducational. Not every book comes with Using a set mixture of instructions facts and figures, photographs and funny cartoons, you come away having sniggered a little at the vulture who poos on its own feet but it's worth studying the ''How to...'' sectionalso knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, not least because similar systems are used in other reference booksand why wombats do square poos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>