|summary=In 1834, six men from the Dorset village of Tolpuddle were deported to Australia for their trade union activities. This book, written in a very simple style for children, tells the true story of what happened to them, the politics of their arrest and deportation and the campaign by trade unionists and other supporters of trade union rights to overturn their convictions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Winton and Fred Pearce
|title=The Big Green Book
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Well, the title's right: it's big, it's green (in message, not colour) and it's a book. ''The Big Green Book'' is a super guide to environmental issues for young kids. It's packed to the brim with information, and has more flaps and pop-ups than you could shake a stick at.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905811438</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Der Manuelian
|title=Hieroglyphs From A To Z
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=This look at hieroglyphs comes with stencils, so that children can write out their own coded messages. It's a simple introduction for any budding Egyptologists, and has a lot of additional information about Ancient Egypt to keep them interested.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0764953060</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Mayhew
|title=Katie and the Waterlily Pond
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When Katie and Grandma are at the art gallery, they see there's a competition to paint a picture in the style of Monet. Grandma has a bit of a rest, whilst Katie goes off to look at the Monet exhibition for inspiration. When one of the paintings speaks to her - really speaks to her - she steps inside it and explores... Subtitled ''A Magical Journey Through Five Monet Masterpieces'', ''Katie and the Waterlily Pond'' is a wonderful introduction for children to art in general and Claude Monet in particular. They'll get a feel for ''In The Woods and Giverny'', ''Bathers at La Grenouillère'', ''Path Through the Poppies'', ''The Waterlily Pond'', and ''The Rue Montorgueil, Paris''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304635</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Browne
|title=Play The Shape Game
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You might have already played the shape game. It involves doing a squiggle on a piece of paper, then either you or someone else has to turn that squiggle into a full picture. Anthony Browne played it lots when he was little, and now he's playing it with 45 celebrities and you. Proceeds from the book and the auction of the artwork are going to [http://www.rainbowtrust.org.uk The Rainbow Trust Children's Charity], who provide emotional and practical support to families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. A fantastic cause.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331317</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vicki Myron and Brett Witter
|title=Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library Cat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This heart-warming book tells the wonderful true story of a cat called Dewey. His beginnings were very humble and his life could quite probably have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuitous event that occurred one cold winter morning. Vicki Myron, the chief librarian at Spencer Library in Iowa, heard some very strange noises coming from the book drop box that borrowers used in order to return their books when the library was closed. On opening the box she discovered a small, dirty, shivering kitten and her heart melted. As a consequence, the kitten, which was soon to be named Dewey, was adopted and became the official library cat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson
|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straight
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s the firmer rather than the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative and reassuring manner and in a form which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old and above.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracey Turner
|title=Dreadful Fates
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Imagine the delight you get, as a book reviewer, when you chance upon a title that stands out, by filling a nice handy gap in the market you'd never even noticed, and doing it so well you want to alert as many people as possible. This is such a time, Dreadful Fates is such a book, and as for the gap… This book hits upon the darker corners of all those copious 'highlights of history for the kids' books, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid ways, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does it all for the under-thirteen audience.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Platt
|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect of families, it is that books are included. It is evident from the details, trivia and facts here that you don’t need a father, a mother, or siblings. You might even have several spreads of half- and step-siblings, and copious parents here, there and everywhere. You might get to have a nanny, a cohort of family helpers, but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Platt
|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It is quite certain the reader of this book will not be a bed tester, however broad the smile it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream after. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisation, a slave, a drudge, or a worker in a Communist collective farm. But it is definitely an eye-opener how all that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pages.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Platt
|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Cities don’t just spring up around us. They have taken thousands of years of civilisation to form, however surprising that might appear at times. Conversely, there are some who are just a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centuries, and others that have been planned over a drawing board and become a capital city in a decade-long instant. All are within these tidy 48 pages.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>
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