Dash Fan Book Reviews

Our Wonderful World Activity Book  by Ben Handicott Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information In this interactive companion to Our Wonderful World, you'll find trivia quizzes, search-and-find challenges, spot-the-difference games and so much more – with over 50 stickers! Geography, history and culture spill from the pages in this luxuriously illustrated activity book. Bite-size information and awesome facts about the regions accompany each activity, with stickers to get creative with at the back of the book. Spanning the world from Chile to China and New Zealand to the Netherlands, take on super-fun activities and puzzles as you discover more about the most awesome places on Earth. This activity-packed round-the-world trip includes: *Search-and-find challenges * Spot-the-difference games * Code-breaker challenges * Word searches * Matching games ...

The World's Most Pointless Animals  Or are they? by Philip Bunting Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information   The World’s Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animals…who we find are perhaps not so pointless after all. From familiar animals like giraffes (who don’t have any vocal cords) through to those that surely should not even exist, such as the pink fairy armadillo (absurdly huge front claws, super tough protective shell in baby pink, particularly susceptible to stress), our planet is full of some pretty weird and wonderful animals. For example: Koalas spend up to 18 hours a day asleep! Pandas are born bright pink, deaf, and blind. Dumbo octopuses flap their big fin-like ears to move around. A Narwhal’s tusk grows through its upper lip—ouch! With hil...

Creative Crochet Projects by Stephanie Pokorny Thank you to Fox Chapel Publishing and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily . 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information (via Amazon UK) Crochet with creativity! 12 fun crochet projects  with a charming, offbeat sense of style Create kids' toys , beanies, buntings, scarves, a beehive mobile, and more Step-by-step instructions , coordinating photography, and skill-building tutorials Beginner-friendly  introduction to common stitches and crochet basics Author Stephanie Pokorny  has a one-of-a-kind style that has both wide appeal and originality You've never seen a crochet book like this before! Whether you want to learn how to crochet or you're looking for fresh, new projects to try,  Creative Crochet Projects  is for you! Featuring a variety of 12 colorful, fun, and quirky crochet projects with a charming, offbeat sense of style, this project book starts off easy, slowly in...

The Encyclopedia of  Unbelievable Facts  by Jane Wilsher Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Test your knowledge with 500 perplexing questions to bamboozle and delight trivia buffs both young and old with The Encyclopedia of Unbelievable Facts. How many kinds of germs live in your bellybutton? Which creature takes a three-year-long nap? If someone asked you to spare a zeptosecond, how long would that be? Has the Leaning Tower of Pisa ever been straight? And what exactly happens to an astronaut’s dirty laundry? The dazzling facts are accompanied by bright, whimsical illustrations and the questions are organized into 10 chapters: Human Body, Science and Technology, Animals, Natural World, Space, Mindbending Stuff, History, Customs and Culture, Our World, and Arts and Entertainment. Written in simple, easy-to-understand language by author Jane Wilsher,...

A World of Animals by Rimma Zainagova and Paul Calver Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information With  A World of Animals,  meet and draw more than 175 adorable animals from all seven continents, and enjoy the bonus double-sided poster and sticker pages! This step-by-step drawing book highlights  the wonders of the animal kingdom,  with more than 175 awesome animals to draw, a sticker challenge, a poster to hang on your wall, and tons of fun animal facts. Each section features animals from across the seven continents, providing  natural history  information in addition to  step-by-step drawing lessons  of each featured creature. There is a  double-sided poster  showing where all these animals live, and  sticker pages  too! All you need to do is find the correct spot in the book to ...

Kids Ultimate Craft Book  by Editors of Quarry Books  Thank you to Quarto Publishing and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information The perfect guide to crafting with kids,  Kids Ultimate Craft Book for Anytime, Anywhere Creative Fun  starts with the absolute basics, then gradually introduces skills and techniques so kids can create fantastic projects with beading, braiding and knotting, crochet, knitting, and sewing. Beading.  Begins with beads, charms, and pendants, moves on to working with thread and wire, then shows how to make a tiara, a button ring, a skater cuff, and more.   Braiding and Knotting.  Demonstrates techniques for creating with different cords and fibers to make necklaces, leashes, and key chains. Crochet.  Starts with an overview of hooks and yarns, then shows how the most basic crochet stitches can be used to create a bracelet, a bookmark, and a ...

Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble  by Paul Cookson I would like to thank Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this fabulous  Blog Tour  🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮🧙🏻‍♀️🔥🔮 Information about the Book Title: Fire Burn, Cauldron Burn Editor: Paul Cookson Illustrated by: Eilidh Muldoon Genre: MG Poetry Publication Date: 17 th September 2020 Page Count: 160 Publisher: Bloomsbury   Summary: Can you hear the distant dragon's rumble of thunder? And smell the sweet swampy aroma of the ogre? Can you taste the tangy tarantula tarts? And see the girl who's really a wizard? From magic carpets and wands to unicorns, potions, creams and lotions, Paul Cookson's brewing a spell of fantastically magic poems.  On this tattered magic carpet   You can choose your destination   For nothings quite as magical   As your imagination  Beautifully illustrated, this enchanting anthology brings together work from a range of classic, established and ...

Bookstagram Tour  SHAUN THE SHEEP collection  Lu-La's Guide to Space! On my blog today I have the pleasure of  sharing with you........ SHAUN THE SHEEP collection  Lu-La's Guide to Space! I would like to thank Darkroom Tours and  Sweet Cherry Publishing for inviting me on the Bookstagram Tour  See below for a Summary of all the books in this Fabulous Collection⬇️ 🚀🛸🐑🚀🛸🐑🚀🛸🐑🚀🛸🐑🚀🛸🐑🚀 Books Information  Title: Lu-La’s Guide to Space Release Date: 26 th September 2019 Genre: MG Page Count: 32 Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Space-Official-Shaun-Sheep/dp/1782265902/   Official movie-tie in for the Shaun the Sheep Movie 2: Farmageddon. Learn all about space with Lu-La! This guide is packed with interested facts, colourful images, stickers and posters. Packed with scientific facts to inspire a love for space for...