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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - Remove as with so many students -->been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1839948493|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=Damn those beesIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. TheyIn nearly eight decades, I're not ve never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming ratessame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and the others, like butterflies devour. Then I'm going to go back and mothsread it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', are actually runnerswith ninety-up six pages devoted entirely to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantsmy four-legged friends. Plus theyAuthor Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she're more visually attractives learned quite a lot about dogs since then. But even though this book has two nudges }}{{Frontpage|author=Lev Parikian |title=Light Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary= If you’re a thanks given writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to the Butterfly Conservation bodywrite, then you know that's certainly not there are unnumbered types of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the more notable feature kind of these pagesthing you think you might like to write. What stands out is the superlative contentOr, indeed, are actually trying to write.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett1398508632|title=Sea JournalThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Over It had been on the course of cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year Lisa Woollett invites us of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to go with her on her visits to various beaches start, in a world where the British Islesnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, although 'visits' might make what happens sound Brexit and a little too formalpandemic. Woollett knows Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her local beaches, and some further afield, in much the same way that was a known habitat with a gardener knows their own plotvariety of terrains. She's aware of minute changeshad electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, how the phase of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect to find in the strandline freezer and where it's come fromdehydrator. She delights in every variation of the weather had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she's had shelter: this was not a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths plan to up-''live'' wild just to-the-minute sciencelive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll0711266204|title=Nature's Day: Out The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and AboutVivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=I love books have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to visit our garden on a computer screendaily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I like 've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting the feeders for a bit dirty, being independent quick snatch of some food and getting excited about naturewho settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. A good teacher will inspire childrenIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, but I'd had access to a book such as 'Nature's Day: Out and AboutThe Secret Life of Birds'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be . So – what a child needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Tagareth_steel|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=HereI don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a neat idea TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when youwould be best choosing between reading and eating. Provide pages with animal prints on one side }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human- only by animal printsShaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, I mean the sort of colours elephants and pattern which you see so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animalsstay out there, not paw prints! ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. Some I mean, cows are subtle for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and others are rather more I much prefer my elephants inthe wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals -your-faceand I consider myself an animal lover. On If I had to choose between the reverse company of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut humans and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model company of an animalanimals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. Provide some stickers which replicate facesI eat cheese, eggs, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - chicken and fish and number these I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that they get making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the right place. All you need time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to add work to cover the mix is a pair of scissorsbudget, parental supervision if necessary for next there was the cuttingEU referendum, a little imagination the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and you have hours of funreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell1782407480|title=Penguins Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Other Sea BirdsMike Webster

|summary=I've always been fascinated by Penguins: was a little perturbed when I think itlooked at the blurb for 's because they look so 'Bird Love'smart'' and striking, yet survive in extreme conditions, so the opportunity to review on a book which contains fifty penguins and other seabirds was too good to miss. Just the pictures would have been enough - the minimalist watercolours couple of street artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell on- but Sewell's whimsical wit and ability to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chris Townsend|title= Out There|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been line booksellers: ''Out Thereexploring the sex life of birds'' as it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a long distance walker for almost four decades. For most of closer examination suggested that time he has been equally the book is about the ''out therefamily life'' as a champion of birds, which is rather different. If the outdoors. He is book was confined to the author sex life of many booksbirds, many accounts of his treksyou would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visitscope in the wild. Here Not only that, for you have missed the first time, he gathers his thoughts and experience into a single volume, singing treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a hymn wide variety of praise for birds which run through this book from the first page to the Wild, and stirring defence against human predationlast. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1846045576|title=Walks In The Wild|author=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho Peter Wohlleben and Lucy Greaves Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (translatorTranslator)|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering Nature

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=I'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - to spend a lot more time outside. I want them to have 'An instruction manual for the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D and the knowledge of what nature can offer them. Iforest'' is how Wohlleben'd like s publisher described the television, computers, mobile phonesidea for this book, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to that's basically what it is available for free, but which - if we don't care for – although right at the end the author says that it - might is not always intended to be therea reference book, but an appetiser. Fortunately the authors of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus

|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''An activity book, but not as you know itglance'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agree. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots The Little Book of stickers and theythe Dawn Chorus''re but the sort pull of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or two's peace in so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the school holidayssecond time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2'The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is after a different beast altogetherfilm title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. It's part album in which That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you're going to collect barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and store your own finds, part explanation of never in the best practices world of how you should go non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about this , say, Alaska (and part nature guide. Itboy aren's t there are a substantial hardback book with an elastic band lot of those these days) and wants to keep it shut make another, why she just makes another - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsnothing would justify the numeral. Production values for But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the book are high heft to demand follow- this really is something which will be treasured for ups. And after five yearsin the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamTaylor_Owls|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it I feel like I am being a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it)watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, add exquisite pictures locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread the deep- amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and then fill in gentle at the same time, the details. You'll need owl is beckoning the name of reader to turn the bird in English and Latin pages and take a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultcloser look inside... Then you'll need details }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of where the bird is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and female adults differ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact Wildlife|summary=Sy Montgomery and this needs Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be something which will interest children''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, but which adults might not know eitherLiz didn't seem to mind at all. Does it sound simple? Well it isn''She REALLY didn'tmind being bitten by a weasel. I knew we were soul mates, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectlyrecalls Sy. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about that in a momentthe animal world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneyBarr_Elephant|title=The English Countryside (Amazing 10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Extraordinary Facts)Hanako Clulow

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I live in 've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the countryside gentle giants of Africa and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring India, but it, so was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the chance to read Ruth Binney's most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''The English Countrysidegrandmothers'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag Female elephants and their calves stay together and we know that the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she writes well knows where to find food and water - and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this bookshe knows her herd. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbagShe remembers about people too. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyGrindrod Outskirts|title=The HuntOutskirts|author=John Grindrod

|summary='Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts in Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the first pages green belt of his allthe countryside surrounding inner-encompassing book about killer whalescity housing estates. For him, encountering orcas, John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one of such estate in the world1960s and 's largest mammals70s, has been both humbling and inspiring, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that as he puts it is wrong for us to exploit other creatures for our own benefit. After moving to Seattle, he tried for three years to see ''I grew up on the whales, and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the places where introduction of the orcas livegreen belt, simply for and the pleasure of various fights and developments ithas gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, that he started seeing them all the timehas somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb BraunMoss Wild|title=The Tiger ProwlsWild Kingdom: a pop-up book of wild animalsBringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the cover, the tiger is an unfortunate by-product of the title appears: ''The tiger prowlshuman population growth, stalking through which in the junglemodern world has increased significantly.Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on s wildlife without compromising the forest floorhuman way of life: we can co-exist with nature.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher FranceschelliSewell Spot|title= Dinoblock|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= As befits a book about dinosaurs, 'Dinoblock' is suitably chunky. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in a 'pick me up and read me' kind of way. Inside this board book, twenty plus beasts are on parade. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Big Bird Spot|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of FalsterboMatt Sewell

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''In between Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of the beach huts''<br>'puffins who'Where d arrived on the white sands meet cliffs in the seaslast few days. Finally,I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell''<br>s first book for children, ''The heather meets the sand dunesBig Bird Spot''<br>, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you''And long grasses dance re going to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, in amongst the breezeguillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>re going to have to find them in every picture.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallBurkey_Ethics|title=Favourite Deadly FactsEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey

|summary=At age 15, on a camping trip to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphanyBurkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. It was He is no longer part of the first time that he had felt ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself to be a part of naturedistanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that the environment really mattered to himcomes with them. As a big picture personThe natural world, howeverBurkey argues, this had never translated into an affinity no longer exists for individual species, even though man because he became a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''has altered it by such things. That isIndeed, until he came across a mysterious listing for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaedia. This creature global warming has never been seen in caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the wild, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964world unrecognisable. For some reason, the golden mole captured Girling's imaginationworld to become fuller, becoming for it to be a symbol of rarity and world that seeks to provide for the fragility needs of mammals' existenceevery living thing, then it needs to change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara StarbuckLjung_Butterfly|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella and SimbaBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung

|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always a youngster as pleasure when there are children there and they see a model butterfly close up, possibly for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coastfirst time, but that probably happened before she ended up in as it rests on a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye and losing the sight in flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the other. Simba was not supposed opportunity to be shaking his magnificent maned figure learn about butterflies and also to build a circus cage in southern France3D model of our own. But she was, and he was, and things weren't right. Luckily, The book is primarily aimed at the zoo was too poor five to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was a noeight-year-starter as wellold age group, when it comes but I have to keeping confess that I had a fully-grown lion in captivitygreat deal of fun building my own painted lady. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read with I learned quite a heart-warming message.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen DaveyJones_Foxes|title=Mad About MonkeysFoxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones|rating= 4|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction book, I guess monkeys are As one of the ideal places to start. They arelargest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of coursebright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our distant cousinsculture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, with a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the past thirty million yearsleast understood. They have a large range across Here Lucy Jones investigates the planettruth about foxes – delving into fact, they have over 250 variant speciesfiction, folklore and they have a lot of interesting facts and details regarding their social lifeher own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, their dietJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, their diversity and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may beour relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy EngelmanMetisola_1st|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)My First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I Get used to two simple words if you have never seen the need to review a book via video child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to mechair, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That ishat, my sense of course, until now, and the phenomenon regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in booksnot too familiar. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove weparental practice of making something up comes into play – it've read every word s a bird type thing. Books that show images of the books by being eloquentitems, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, informative and opinionated but to a toddler learning about what we examinethe world, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding they are a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members who's who of our audience wanting to see the resultswhat's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsPackham_Babies|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsAmazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy PressMany children love animals, which aims to give an informative and entertaining overview of but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a given subject in bite-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, with kitten? A meerkat or a concise description on the left, covering all of the main points, and smaller meerkat? The answer is a colourful illustration on no brainer to most children who enjoy the right hand page, complete with extra snippets wide-eyed stumbling of informationyouth that is not dissimilar to their own. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum upHowever, which further condenses someone needs to give them the main idea of the chapter into a single sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BarrouxPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=Where's Pairs in the Elephant?Garden|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summaryauthor=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest Smriti Prasadam- full of glorious colours Halls and our three friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dave Goulson|title=A Buzz in the MeadowLorna Scobie|rating=4.5

|summary=Back in 2003, biologist Dave Goulson bought a run-down farmhouse and 33 acres of meadow ''Pairs in the idyllic French countryside. His aim was to create Garden'' is a sanctuary fun book/game hybrid for all sorts of wildlife, where creatures could go about their business without fear of disturbance. Soon, the meadows were abuzz with activity, with insect species thrivinglittle fingers into creepy crawlies. Birds, mammals and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch of countryside, including the mysterious It'snake and owls a lift-eating beast' and the elusive 'wack-wackflap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what' bird...but s underneath, you then must see if you want to can find out more about thema matching pair on the same page. But beware! You cannot just use the process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, you will have but only 3 pairs to read the book for yourselffind. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>