Susan Meredith

I’m generally reassured when I see a children’s non-fiction book published by Usborne — they are always well-researched and reliable.

I bought this book as reference for my young daughter who is likely to start her periods young and has been worrying about her weight and sneaking off to the computer to research things on the Internet secretly. It's a topic a girl can find hard to discuss with her father and this book has given us a way to discuss her changes openly without show more embarrasment. I feel she's ben reassured by having the chance to talk to us but also by the no-nonsense, slightly humourus, style of the book. show less

A young reader's book about recycling is always a good idea. The sooner you can bring a child's attention to ways they can help improve our world, the better. This book does a good job of describing the various aspects that go into recycling and gives good tips for kids and adults to help them learn what they can do to help. The organization of the book seems to follow a pattern and seems to be grouped by whatever aspect of reducing, reusing, or recycling they are describing, but for the show more most part, it was a bit all over the place for me.
Each section contains a question that acts as the "chapter title" I suppose, which I really liked. I think adding questions in a children's nonfiction book is beneficial to their learning how to search for answers to important questions. But I still felt a little discombobulated while reading. There is a lot of information contained in this book and I would assume that it is geared more towards older children, but I almost feel like less would have been more for this book.
It taught me a lot about specific aspects of recycling, mainly what happens in the recycling plants, which is great, but there just really is a lot of information on each page. The illustrations are great and are fitting to the concepts discussed on each page, but the shear volume of text on each page is a bit overwhelming, even for an adult reader like me.
While I would recommend this book because it does contain helpful tips and information, I would probably try to present it to kids in chunks, not in one reading. show less

This is a beautiful way to introduce maths and also teach left or right. Most children have difficulties telling which is left or right but with this book, they're one step closer to mastering it. I especially like the way it asksa question and then answers it at the turn of the page. e.g left or right, which shoe is untied? and when you rurn the page, it says the right one needs tying.

This colorful book is packed with exciting scientific activities, from blowing bubbles to making soft drinks and invisible ink.