This month is a month to get cracking, creative, crafty and cooking. Check out this selection of new non-fiction books and go for it.
So you think you know the Olympics / by Clive Gifford.Packed with over 1000 questions covering everything from the first ever games to London 2012, this quiz book will really have you thinking. Luckily for me and those of you who may not be so knowledgeable about every olympic sport, the answers are in the back of the book. I now know that the word citius in the olympic motto means faster.
Olympic champions / Nick Hunter.
Just in time for the London Olympics, this series will give you heaps of material for your school projects. We have four titles in the series covering everything from paralympics to behind the scenes. Check out our titles but be in quick. These ones will fly off the shelves.
Olympic Champions, Behind the Scenes at the Olympics, Olympic Sports and The Paralympics.
Horrid Henry’s sports / Francesca Simon ; illustrated by Tony Ross. Street dance : the people, the music, the moves / Liz Gogerly.
Did you know that a cricket match in Tasmania had to be stopped four times when camels from a nearby circus charged onto the pitch and that Olympic GOLD medals are made mostly of silver ? Make your school sports projects come alive with this weird and wonderful, hilarious and horrid guide to everything you wanted to know about SPORTS.
Garden crafts for children : 35 fun projects for children to sow, grow, and make / Dawn Isaac.
Make your very own fairy ring, spectacular ice bowls for yummy desserts, bird feeder pinecones, cress caterpillars or sprouting birthday cards. You can even learn how to write your name in the lawn! Heaps of really creative and easy crafts to enjoy.
Folding for fun : origami for ages 4 and up / Didier Boursin.
Great ideas for hours of fun. I love the paper planes and the noise makers!
Junior MasterChef Australia series 2 cookbook : around the world in 80 amazing recipes.
The introduction to this book states that This is a lively, colourful cookbook taking young cooks around the globe to explore different cuisines through simple, achievable recipes. As with the first junior masterchef book, these dishes look so yummy. Having step by step guides really helps. I am definitely going to try cooking the Moroccan fig and walnut cigars, the Japanese beef and vegetable rolls and the egg nets from Thailand!
I’m good at English : what job can I get? / Richard Spilsbury.
Are you tired of people asking you what you want to be when you grow up? If you are, then you are probably like me and don’t know! (I’m not fully grown up yet..) This new series could help us both. Each book in this series gives details of 12 jobs, including characteristics and qualifications we will need, a job description and even a comment from a professional. Titles in this series: I’m Good at Science, I’m Good at Maths and I’m Good at ICT.
Mad cars / [written by Jonathan Empson].
These Top Gear books are for little petrol heads only, adults keep out! The presenters have driven some pretty mad cars and now you can find out even more . We have five other great titles in this series: The Racers, The Racers V.2, Supercars, , The Challenges, and Winter Olympics. These books are full of crazy stuff. I love that even their rocket powered, superthrust mini was beaten in a snow jump by a local schoolboy on skis!
Cool cars and trucks / Sean Kenney.
There are no limits to what can be created with LEGO.Whether you’d like to build an SUV, an excavator, a tanker truck, or a race car… author Sean Kennedy will show you how. Sean has more than one million pieces of LEGO in his studio and once built a 12-foot bridge on live television in just two hours. A great wee book for any LEGO lover.
A stick is an excellent thing : poems celebrating outdoor play / by Marilyn Singer ; illustrated by LeUyen Pham.
This is a great collection of poems about a group of children and how they find things to do on a summer day.do my college essay