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  • February 17, 2019
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Living On The Veg by Clive Gifford & Jacqueline Meldrum

September 26, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

A kids’ guide to life without meat…

The book takes you through the costs and benefits of this change in lifestyle. It includes a section on food groups and information about how you can adapt your diet to get all the right nutrients (such as iron).

The book goes on to give tasty and easy-to-follow recipes for the whole family, specially created by vegetarian blogger Jacqueline Meldrum of www.tinnedtomatoes.com. The recipes include dairy but not fish or meat.

Waterstones 

Filed Under: NonFiction

Business For Beginners by Lara Bryan and Rose Hall ill. Kellan Stover

September 25, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Following the success of Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week Politics for Beginners, Usborne has produced this no-nonsense, easy-to-understand guide to what business is all about – a must-have for school libraries…

With bright, infographic pictures, Business For Beginners describes how to start your own business, manage your money and beat the competition and explains global supply chains and interest rates. Includes links to websites to find out more.

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction

Egypt Magnified by David Long ill. Harry Bloom

September 25, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Wide Eyed are the new Dorling Kinderlsley of illustrated non-fiction and one of the reasons why non-fiction sales have been so buoyant in the children’s sector.

Harry Bloom the illustrator deserves star billing as so much rests on the detail he manages to include in. his illustrations. He has done this before in Prates Magnified, and triumphs again with a title on a subject that never fails to entrance.

Explore ancient Egypt, from the Nile to the pyramids, and learn what life was life for pharaohs, slaves and scribes in this fascinating search-and-find adventure. Use the magnifying glass to spot over 200 things in each eye-boggling illustration.

Waterstones

Filed Under: Gift, NonFiction

Raise The Flag by Clive Gifford ill. Tim Bradford

September 21, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Packed full of wow-inducing facts and trivia, this colourful book offers much more than the average flag book. Find out how Lichtenstein and Haiti discovered they shared the exact same flag and which national flag was designed by a 15-year-old schoolgirl in this comprehensive and entertaining read.. Features 268 flags, including the national flag of every country in the world,an atlas-style chapter for each continent exploring the history of significant flags, and themed sections that introduce the many different types of flags, plus great moments in flag history (flags at the poles and in space for example) and how we communicate using flags. 

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction

The Book of No Worries, a survival guide for growing up by Lizzie Cox ill. Tanja Stevanovic

September 20, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

A friendly and entertaining guide to help young people cope with puberty, peer pressure and other growing-up concerns.

The book kicks off with a good definition of worry as overthinking. The risk with books such as this is that they end up instigating just that level overthinking they set out to suppress.

Good to see the illustrator – Tanja Stevanovic –  being given equal billing on the cover.

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction

Path To The Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist by Sylvia Acevedo

September 20, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

In her middle-grade memoir Path to the Stars, Sylvia Acevedo draws a straight if improbable line from her childhood as a Mexican American girl in New Mexico through a career as a literal rocket scientist to her current post as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Horn Book

Read this special feature of the author in conversation with Roger Sutton, Horn Book editor.

“This appealing page-turner helps fill the void of biographies on Latina women. Girls, boys, scouts, non- scouts–all will be inspired by Acevedo’s story.”–Booklist, STARRED review

“Those seeking stories of female STEM trailblazers will find much to love here. Encouraging and uplifting.”–Kirkus

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction Tagged With: memoir

What On Earth? Trees by Kevin Warwick ill. Paulina Morgan

September 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Latest title in an ongoing series…

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Filed Under: NonFiction

Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History by Vashti Harrison

September 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment


Shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019

A slightly revised edition of a book first published in America last year…

Featuring 40 trailblazing black women of world history, this book educates and inspires as it relates true stories of women who broke boundaries and exceeded all expectations.

Debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison pairs captivating text with stunning illustrations as she tells the stories of both iconic and lesser-known female figures of black history.

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction Tagged With: WCB19

Young, Gifted And Black by Jamia Wilson ill. Andrea Pippins

September 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Meet 52 Black Heroes From Past To Present

“…to be revisited again and again…The candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resist…” -The New York Times

“…diverse collection of iconic figures…vibrantly illustrated…beautifully crafted volume…” -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“…exuberant…exquisitely designed…a launching point for more discoveries.” -School Library Journal, Starred Review

“A luminous and diverse tribute to black movers and shakers across the centuries.” -Publishers Weekly

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction

10 Reasons To Love A Whale by Catherine Barr ill. Hanako Clulow

September 19, 2018 By achuka Leave a Comment

Published in association with the Natural History Museum. 
Beautifully-liilustrated, accessible non-fiction for 5 – 9’s.

Waterstones

Filed Under: NonFiction Tagged With: animals, Natures

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