Chatterbooks Book List Wonderful Non-Fiction! Wonderful Non-Fiction! – The books Enjoy this great selection of information books on all kinds of subjects – arranged in Dewey Decimal Code order! See if you can find more books in your school or public library with the same numbers! 001 General Knowledge: reference books and encyclopaedias Browse these books together and choose favourite amazing facts with which to wow your friends! A World of Information Richard Platt & James Brown Walker 978-1406370843 This is a bright and attractive book full of incredible facts and figures, covering more than 30 topics. Do you know how many bones there are in the human body or how clouds form? Or about different types of knots or how Morse code works? Richard Platt is the author of Castle Diary, Egyptian Diary and Pirate Diary, which won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award. My Encyclopaedia of Very Important Things DK 978-0241224939 Full of fun facts, colourful illustrations, and games that will feed a child’s imagination, this book is perfect for 4 to 7 year olds. It is split into four sections, All About Me, Animals, People, and My Planet. Knowledge Encyclopaedia: Animal! John Woodward DK 978-0241228418 From the wings of the albatross to the deadly facts of the great white shark, this book takes you into the exciting world of the animal kingdom. Exploring everything from habitats and ecosystems to senses and respiration, it is easy to follow and full of fun facts, with amazing 3D images. For children aged 9+. See also these further titles in the Knowledge Encyclopaedia series: Dinosaur! 978-1409354673 Space! 978-0241196304 Page 2 of 16 005 Computer programming Three books to get you going on creating your own games, blogs, vlogs and podcasts! In each of them you’ll find lots of practical tips and activities. Enjoy! A Beginner’s Guide to Coding Marc Scott Bloomsbury 978-1472928641 A Beginner’s Guide to Coding is an easy-to-follow guide to the basics of coding, using the free programming languages of Scratch and Python. These step-by-step projects will have you talking to your own chatbot or making your own computer games in no time. Engaging and fun, eye-catching illustrations and projects introduce you to the world of coding. Marc Scott is a former Computer Science and Systems & Control teacher. He now works as Head of Curriculum Development for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 20 Games to Create with Scratch Max Wainewright QED Publishing 978-1784936648 Learn how to code your very own computer games using Scratch software. With easy-to-follow, illustrated step-by-step instructions, create all types of popular games from ‘Snake’ and ‘Brick Bouncer’ to driving and action games. Each chapter progresses in difficulty, introducing key coding concepts through simple and practical tasks from drawing shapes and giving instructions in code to building games and much more! Max Wainewright writes educational software titles for children. His programs and websites have won BETT, ERA and Practical Pre-School Gold Awards. He lives in London. Super Skills: How to Be a Blogger and Vlogger Shane Birley QED/Walter Foster 978-1633221055 In this addition to the Super Skills series, children can master a new digital talent--creating blogs, vlogs, and podcasts--in 10 easy lessons! Each stage is fully illustrated with step-by-step illustrations and photographs, so children can learn 10 key skills to develop and promote an exciting new online blog or vlog. Along with professional tips and practical techniques, this book will help young readers become expert bloggers in no time - from planning what to share with the world to learning how to stay safe online. Shane Birley is a seasoned blogger with a technical background and a degree in Literature. He has co-authored several editions of Blogging for Dummies He lives in Vancouver, Canada. Page 3 of 16 400 Words! Enjoy these beautiful words – say them out loud; choose your favourites and use them in your writing and chatting. Look out for more – or make up your own! Other Wordly Yee-Lum Max & Kelsey Garrity-Riley Chronicle Books 978-1452125343 tsundoku: (noun, Japanese) buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or nightstands tartle: (verb, Scots) to hesitate while introducing or meeting someone because you have forgotten their name hoppipolla: (verb, Icelandic) jumping into puddles! Discover these and many other words to surprise and delight! You’ll find words for the particular grace of mended things, for the urge to peer into other people’s windows, for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees! A lovely book for lovers of words – and for those lost for words! Yee-Lum Mak began this book in high school. She lives in Los Angeles. Kelsey Garrity-Riley is an illustrator living in Brooklyn. See also The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words Andy Seed & Scott Garrett Bloomsbury 978-1408853382 530 Gravity Gravity Jason Chin Andersen 978-1783441976 What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from rising up into space? Gravity. This is a picture book which introduces young readers to this fundamental force, taking a complex subject and making it understandable. Jason Chin is an author and illustrator. His books include Redwoods and Coral Reefs. He studied illustration at Syracuse University and lives in New York. Talk about what could happen if there were no gravity. Look at the section at the end which gives you more information. Think about feathers and leaves, birds and insects and aeroplanes – what keeps them from falling straight to the ground? Page 4 of 16 560 Prehistoric creatures Animasaurus: Incredible Animals that Roamed the Earth Tracey Turner & Harriet Russell Bloomsbury 978-1408884850 Did you know that: A shark as long as a bus roamed the oceans? Hamsters with horns once burrowed the Earth? Giant armadillos grew to the size of a family car? Find out about the fascinating prehistoric beasts that once walked, swam and hunted across the Earth. Compare these with their closest modern relatives, or other living animals with amazing features. Pictures and facts, essential stats and scale diagrams, this is a great guide to prehistoric beasts! Tracey Turner’s books include 101 Things You Need to Know, the Comic Strip series, and the World’s Worst Jobs. She lives in Bath. Harriet Russell studied illustration at Glasgow School of Art and Central Saint Martins in London. She has written and illustrated several of her own books. Discovering Dinosaurs Simon Chapman Bloomsbury 978-1408194614 Imagine you discovered the dinosaurs! Battle blizzards with swarms of vipers in the Gobi Desert with explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, join the race across the Wild West of America with bone-hunters Cope and Marsh as they unearth a time when monsters really did rule the world. Get to know about Triceratops, Pterodactyls, Iguanodon, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and many more. This book is full of stats, pictures, journals, flaps and even the insides of dinosaurs. Simon Chapman, author and explorer, has canoed the Armu River in Siberia looking for tigers, and crossed the Bolivian Lowlands by horse, canoe, and on foot. Each choose a prehistoric creature and find out as much as you can about it – how big? How long ago did it live? Where? What was the climate and vegetation like? What did it eat? Is it gentle? Or roaring, like our Chatterbooks lion? Imagine you have time-travelled back to prehistoric times and come face to face with your creature. Create a picture of it, with you standing beside it, and write a journal entry about how you found it – and what happened next! Page 5 of 16 580 Trees I Love This Tree Anna Claybourne Franklin Watts 978-1445152653 This book looks at an old living deciduous tree and through it explores the amazing life of a tree and the creatures that inhabit it. Through a mixture of photos and artwork and information, we see how the tree has changed and how it acts as a habitat for other life. For children aged 8+. It was shortlisted for the 2016 SLA information book award in the 7-12 category and the 2016 English 4-11 picture book awards. Anna Claybourne has also written the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopaedia of Planet Earth, Cheetah: Natural World Series, and the Survival Skills Handbook. She lives in Edinburgh. ‘Close to my house, there’s a beautiful, huge, spreading tree. I see it every day. We walk past it on the way to school, and hear the wind rustling through it at night. How long has that tree been standing there?’ Find a tree near your house, your library or your school. Find out what sort it is, draw it, and make notes about what you see, including any creatures settling on it. Visit it once a week or month and record any changes. Your group could do this together, choosing a tree which you can all get to see – it would make a great subject for a group blog, with pictures and podcasts by the children. 595 Insects The Big Book of Bugs Yuval Zommer Thames & Hudson 978-0500650677 Introductory spreads explain that bugs live nearly everywhere on Earth and give tips on how to become a young bug spotter. The book is then divided into key groups of bugs, including beetles, moths, butterflies, bees, snails, crickets, grasshoppers, worms and spiders, all illustrated with scenic compositions. Some spreads approach the world of bugs thematically, such as bugs that come out at night, baby creepy-crawlies and life cycles, how bugs hide and show off and how some bugs love to live in your home.