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BOOK REVIEWS Bloomsbury Discovery: SPACE This awesome hardback book invites you inside with a promise that you can start your own space discovery mission! Starting with a timeline to help you understand the history behind exploring the cosmos and space travel, there’s a look at inventions such as the telescope and rockets. Every page has flaps to lift which tease your curiosity, so that you can actually go beyond planets in our solar system and see into deep space. It is a different read because if you wish you were in the International Space Station, taking a peek behind the flaps to zoom in and see what goes on there is a must! Buy it from: The Book People www.thebookpeople.co.uk New this year is The Big Picture series including how other people around the world live or lived, extreme animal habitats, weather across the glo be, faraway homes made of ice and much more. The author Anna also wrote 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet which was shortlisted for Blue Peter Best Book With Facts (2009). Big Picture Mummy Maker By Anna Claybourne REVIEW BY TOBY WILSON, 6 What I liked was that the Egyptians made mummies, even from animals as well as dead people! The mummies had bandages hanging down like they’re ready to go into a fire. I really liked the pyramids because they are just made out of stones but they don’t look real when they are real. There was a mummy that really did look dead because it was rotten. The bog mummy is either in a sea or on an island and I loved the mummy made for a dog and a cat! SPARK 11