|summary=Horrid Henry is back with another book of freaky facts and random trivia. We loved his book about [[A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Bodies by Francesca Simon and Tony Ross|Bodies]] and this time the lovable lad (well, I'm sure that's what his mother said...) is back with a book about sport. And in the year of the London Olympic Games, what could be more suitable? It's not just a crammer for [[How to Watch the Olympics: Scores and laws, heroes and zeros – an instant initiation to every sport by David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton|every sport in the Games]] or [[The Story of the Olympics by Richard Brassey|the background to the Games]] themselves. This is the book which swoops into the World Cow Poo Throwing Contest and delves into the Bog Snorkling Championships.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001647</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Hay
|title=Archie the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in Training
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was the case with ''Archie: Hero in Training''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide dog for a blind person and he's just one story in a book about the pups-in-training, the working dogs, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who don't turn out to be what's needed. There's a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Backshall
|title=Predators
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Many readers would probably know that on the simple count of humans they helped to dispatch, mosquitoes may be the most deadly animals ever. But did you know that if you take into account the success rate of hunts, diversity and spread, ladybirds are more successful predators than tigers?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004174</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ewa Solarz, Aleksandra Mizielinski and Daniel Mizielinski
|title=Design
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=
Although this is a book for children I can imagine plenty of grown ups who would find it fascinating! It's a wonderful dip in and out book and I actually found myself keeping it in our washing basket in the bathroom so I could have a quick read whenever I needed to spend a penny! It depicts 69 objects from all over the world that were designed in the last 150 years. There's everything here from octopus-inspired lemon juicers through to sofas made to look like a pair of lips or an Ottoman that resembles a shapely lady's bottom!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467839</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lois Rock and Steve Noon
|title=The Lion Bible in its Time
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=
This factual book approaches stories from the bible in a historical way, looking at the lives people would have been living at the time, the sort of homes they had and the reigning monarchs of each era. Working through from the old testament to the new testament it covers a wide range of biblical stories and is illustrated throughout with fascinating, detailed pictures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745960154</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Barnardo
|title=Dragonolia
|rating=4
|genre=children's Non-Fiction
|summary=
This book is, first of all, a rather beautiful book to behold. The red cloth hardback cover with the curled-up golden dragon on the front immediately make you want to pick it up and look inside! It's also a rather unusual book, being a mix of both fiction and non-fiction, so when you begin it you're initially not quite sure what you're looking at. As you read on you discover that there's a story running throughout by Sir Richard Barons, a famous dragon hunter, and with each story he tells there is also a craft project of something related to make!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904967248</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Ardagh
|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adult, something they didn't know about historical trivia, then this is a good example. I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahs. I didn't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal. The length of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Leroy Ripley
|title=Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2012
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Here at Bookbag we don't usually cover annuals. In our experience people either know they want them or don't bother with them and once the year is out there's not a lot of interest in them, particularly if they're based on a character which might well have gone out of fashion. Ripley's ''Believe It Or Not!'' is different. The series is about interesting facts – all of which are true - which are going to surprise the readers and will continue to surprise them years down the line. Just to test this out we had a look back at the [[Ripley's Believe It or Not 2010 by Robert Leroy Ripley|2010 edition]] and it's still as shocking, gruesome and downright compulsive as it was when we first saw it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946704</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephen Law
|title=The Complete Philosophy Files
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Philosophy Files'' and ''The Philosophy Files 2'' were first published in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Now we have them combined and reissued with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey
|title=Great Stories from British History
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Since when was History True?'' is the heading of the first chapter and it's one which you need to read ''before'' you buy this beautiful book, because it would be easy to assume from the title and the pictures on the cover that it's a history ''text'' book you're going to invest in. In ''some'' ways you are but what you are actually acquiring is a ''story'' book. This is a book of the great stories of British history. Some of them are (broadly) true, some have been debunked by historians and some have simply fallen into disuse – but Geraldine McCaughrean would hate to see them lost altogether.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001426</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Betty G Birney
|title=Humphrey's World of Pets
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=
The verb to pet means to cosset, pay loving attention to, to have loving, touching time with. It might as well mean to have in your household while spending a lot of money on, and being duty-bound and beholden to. Fish (which you can't even properly pet, of course) need a permanent power supply for their water's thermometer. Chinchillas need a special sand for their bathing in. There's even pet-friendly detergents for washing out your hamster cages. Wherever you look there's time and money expenditure in owning a pet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571270263</amazonuk>
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