It's just as well that he knows exactly where mum is, and she's waiting with a well-deserved cuddle. By creating female protagonists who break taboos and assert control over their own existences, they are rejecting the idea that they should alter their behaviour to suit pre-conceived norms. Laura goes to long and noisry lengths to remind her mum and dad she's still there after a new sibling arrives on the scene. It is probably dangerous to go drinking with Emma Jane Unsworth, as it seems like she has harvested years of night-out anecdotes to include here.

Lifesize Baby Animals is a beautiful classroom book, which would be invaluable during a topic on lifecycles/growth. I appreciate that it doesn’t glamorize the heavy partying but also doesn’t turn itself into trauma porn, even though things sometimes get extremely crazy and grim. In Animals, it felt like Laura and Tyler never actually had a legitimately good time- it was just binge after binge, regret followed by anger followed by loneliness followed by more coke, pills or wine. Fabulous Frankie is a beautifully told and fabulously illustrated story of acceptance and valuing kindness. The coming-of-age tale of our two anti-heroines opens with this wonderfully strange scene and you're hooked.

Mayflies do in fact walk on four legs, the front pair not being adapted for walking, so, Wilkins concludes, Aristotle was correct.

Mixing beautiful photography with charming illustrations, it's the perfect visual language for young readers, and is packed with light-hearted fun, and fascinating facts.I think, perhaps, I read this too soon after The Animators, another novel centred on female friendship. The idea of having two thirty something year old women who are on the cusp of being too old to party and not know hot to cope with this is really interesting too - it's a theme which is rarely explored. It contains a contents page, glossary and index which are ideal for supporting your teaching of non-fiction texts. Aristotle's belief that the brain is a cooling organ for the blood was definitely not based on anything that scientists today would consider scientific evidence. Describing the most intriguing creatures on the planet, from the big cats of Africa to the apes that are our closest evolutionary ancestors and the whales and dolphins that roam the world’s oceans, Animals profiles over 400 of the world’s most fascinating species, offering a truly comprehensive overview of animals from every continent and giving a sense of the incredible diversity of animal types.