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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=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive1839948493|title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|genre=Biography Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Cameron and his wifeIn the interests of full disclosure, Sam, had been leading I must tell you that I'm a very activesucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, adventurous lifeI've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. Even after I wish I felt the birth of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventuressame about human beings. So, any book about dogs, so they decided I'm going to travel sit down and devour. Then I'm going to Thailand for a family holidaygo back and read it properly. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam And so it was involved in a dreadfulwith ''A World of Dogs'', almost fatal, accidentwith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. The accident left her paralysed and, because Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life an American Dingo - she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day learned quite a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everythinglot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Piotr SochaLev Parikian |title= The Book of BeesLight Rains Sometimes Fall |rating= 4.5

|summary=''The Book If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that 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 kind of Bees'' may look thing you think you might like to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying to write.|isbn=1783966386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a typical picture book, while but it has was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a lot buzzing underneath world where the surfacenormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. It is adapted from Wilde had a few advantages: the original Polish book ''Pszczolyarea around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains.'' Packed She had electricity which allowed her to the brim with bee facts run a fridge, freezer and figures dehydrator. She had a car - and accompanied by the wonderful comic-style artwork of Piotr Sochafuel. Most importantly, the book is an odd amalgamshe had shelter: part coffee table book/ nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture book. Donthis was not a plan to 't be fooled by its simple cover; 'live'The Bee Book'' is a treasure trove of information wild just waiting to 'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>live off its produce.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Brown0711266204|title= Lesser Spotted AnimalsThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of mammal birds which visit our garden on our planeta daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but how many of those do we actually get I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to see and read about? a book such as 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures The Secret Life of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but Birds''. So – what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in the spotlightis it? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Marrengareth_steel|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|summary=Peter Marren is I don't often begin my reviews with a wildlife writer based in Wiltshirewarning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. His fascination with butterflies began when he was Stories of a child: he still remembers catching 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 Painted Lady in his hands at TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the age of five book is not suitable for younger readers and it transferring some of its colours onto his palm- after reading - I agree with him. Rainbow dust, He says that he dubbed 's written itto inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. 'It was a Nabokov moment because only he could put into words what most of us can only feel: the frankly sensual moment in a childdeals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn's life t lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when the full force of nature is felt for the first timeyou would be best choosing between reading and eating.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703184</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Parker1787332098|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Damn those bees. They're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and the othersgroups: cows, dogs, foxes, like butterflies elephants and mothsso 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 animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are actually runners-for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to Mr Bumble animals - and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantsI consider myself an animal lover. Plus they're more visually attractiveIf I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. But even though I insisted that I read this book has two nudges : no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and a thanks given fish and I needed to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pageseither do so without guilt or change my choices. What stands out is I suspected that making the superlative contentdecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett1786495902|title=Sea JournalThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Over the course of Isabel Hardman suffered a year Lisa Woollett invites us trauma which she chooses not to go with her on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although 'visits' might make what happens sound share. She says that a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beachesfriend who does know, burst into tears and some further afield, health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in much disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the same way that a gardener knows their own plot. Shetime by 'keeping going's aware of minute changes, how : the phase of next day she went to work to cover the moon will affect budget, next there was the tideEU referendum, what she can expect to find in the strandline political party leadership contests and where then it's come fromwas party conference season. She delights in every variation of the weather One night she had to be sedated and she's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths returned home to upbegin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to-this book: 2020 was the year when the-minute sciencebins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll|title=Nature's Day: Out and About|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature - as opposed to a computer screen. I like to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about nature. A good teacher will inspire children, but ''Nature's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what a child needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem Ta1782407480|title=Pattern PlayBird Love: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal Models|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I mean the sort The Family Life of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-face. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line so that you can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animal. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting - and number these so that they get into the right place. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBirds|author=Matt Sewell|title=Penguins Wenfei Tong and Other Sea BirdsMike Webster

|summary=Iwas a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love've always been fascinated by Penguins' on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I think itvery nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the 's because they look so 'family life'smart'' and strikingof birds, yet survive in extreme conditionswhich is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, so the you would be missing an opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and other seabirds was too good to misscope in the wild. Just the pictures would Not only that, you have been enough - missed the minimalist watercolours treat of street artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but Sewell's whimsical wit and ability to teach without being preachy makes so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this a book from the first page to treasurethe last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Townsend1846045576|title= Out There|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been ''Out There'' as a long distance walker for almost four decades. For most of that time he has been equally ''out there'' as a champion of the outdoors. He is the author of many books, many accounts of his treks, and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for the first time, he gathers his thoughts and experience into a single volume, singing a hymn of praise for the Walks In The Wild, and stirring defence against human predation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 school holidaysbirds and listening to their song. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Then - just because I could - I went back and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this did it all again and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - was just as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsgood the second time around. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=Andrea Pinnington James Honeyborne and Caz BuckinghamMark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film titlewas suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsTaylor_Owls|title=Owls: 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

|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate '' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the death and violence, or how it's all about introduction of the capture and killing green belt of one animal by anotherthe countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. SheJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and 's long had a point70s, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingas he puts it, and lions sleeping off ''I grew up on the heat without munching on a passing wildebeestlast road in London.'s leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to Grindrod explores the introduction of the series this book accompaniesgreen belt, even if and the volume very quickly testifies that various fights and developments it's not all about has gone through over the capture – often the chase can be just subsequent decades, as thrillingenvironmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, and the result for the intended victim is favourablehe has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark CockerMoss Wild|title=ClaxtonWild Kingdom: Notes From a Small Planet Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village Wildlife has been declining in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, and yet only a Britain over the last few miles from Norwich. In a series of writings spanning the course decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of a yearhuman population growth, Cocker quietly explores nature which in the village, and his relationship to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscapemodern world has increased significantly. All written with Through this book Moss suggests a deep knowledge and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets few ways in which we can start to the heart bring back some of the local Britain's wildlife and without compromising the local communityhuman way of life: we can co-exist with nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie SadlierSewell Spot|title=Hare|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology and the hare is one of these. The hare we're going to meet is O'Hare - well, we hope we're going to meet him: hares are well known for being elusive and this one is no exception! We'll be following him through the churchyard on a moonlit night - see him leaping in front of the moon - and through a summer meadow, where we only catch sight of his hind legs and his ears. Look on the riverbank - is that him in the water? Then he's in amongst the cabbages - the farmer is ''not'' going to be pleased about that. Is he in the foxglove patch? We can see the fox, but it looks as though O'Hare has gone. The best sighting we have of him is on the corn field, where he's leaping through the stubble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBig Bird Spot|author=David Neiwert|title=Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsMatt Sewell|rating=3.54

|summary=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 puffins who'Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts d arrived on the cliffs in the first pages of his all-encompassing book about killer whaleslast few days. For him Finally, encountering orcasI found one, one of after visually sorting through all the other birds on the worldprecipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's largest mammalsfirst book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'', has been both humbling and inspiringshows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong for us but this time you're going to exploit other creatures be looking for our own benefit. After moving to Seattletwenty-three Little Auks, he tried for three years to see in amongst the whalesguillemots, puffins, herring gulls and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time in the places where the orcas liverazorbills. Oh, simply and you're looking for the pleasure a pair of it, that he started seeing binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have to find them all the timein every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb BraunBurkey_Ethics|title=The Tiger Prowls: Ethics for a popFull World or, Can Animal-up book of wild animalsLovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItBurkey argues that man's a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem but instead exists above itthrough his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the coverindustry, money and all the tiger of the title appears: ''pollution that comes with them. The tiger prowlsnatural world, stalking through Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the jungleworld unrecognisable.''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on For the world to become fuller, for it to be a world that seeks to provide for the forest floorneeds of every living thing, then it needs to change.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher FranceschelliLjung_Butterfly|title= DinoblockBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= As befits a book about dinosaurs, I love butterflies: they'Dinoblockre one of the delights of my garden and it' is suitably chunky. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in s always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a 'pick me butterfly close up , possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and read me' kind also to build a 3D model of wayour own. Inside this board The bookis primarily aimed at the five to eight-year-old age group, twenty plus beasts are on paradebut I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonJones_Foxes|title=The Hounds Foxes Unearthed: A Story of FalsterboLove and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''In between As one of the beach huts''<br>''Where largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the white sands meet least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the seastruth about foxes – delving into fact,''<br>''The heather meets fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the breezenatural world.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallMetisola_1st|title=Favourite Deadly FactsMy First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Many people Get used to two simple words if you have wondered what limbo must feel like. I for one think it will be like being trapped on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book , ''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 – chair, hat, my sense of factsregret. There Sometimes they will point at something that is nothing quite like a book about how long, how short or how wide not too familiar. Here the parental practice of making something is to put up comes into play – it's a certain bird type of child in cloverthing. This type Books that show images of book should come with items, colours or animals may seem a warning sticker on the front as any nearby little dull to an adult is going , but to get their ear talked offa toddler learning about the world, especially if it is they are a bumper fact bookwho's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith PartridgePackham_Babies|title=The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Keith Partridge has been one of the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence and Human Planet are just some of the films that have taken him all over the earth, from the caves of Papua New Guinea to the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, and if you have ever seen a climber or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] and Stephen Venables.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAmazing Animal Babies|author= Simon Barnes|title= Ten Million Aliens|rating= 2.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think it fair to warn you that there are aliens all around us; weird and wonderful ones at that. Take symbions for example. They attach themselves to a host by means of a sucker and propagate by budding. They then move on to the next life stage and become either male or female. The male sheds its mouth and anus and goes of to search for a female. Once the female is impregnated, her digestive system morphs into a larva which breaks free from her when she dies. This may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the truth is that we share our planet with millions of strange life forms; each perfectly suited to survive and thrive in its own environment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722435</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Girling|title=The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small Chris Packham and Why They MatterJason Cockcroft

|summary=At age 15Many children love animals, on but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a camping trip to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphany. It was the first time that he had felt himself to be dog or watch a part of nature, that the environment really mattered to him. As puppy? A cat or a big picture person, however, this had never translated into an affinity for individual species, even though he became kitten? A meerkat or a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''. That smaller meerkat? The answer is, until he came across a mysterious listing for no brainer to most children who enjoy the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaediawide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. This creature has never been seen in the wild, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964. For some reasonHowever, someone needs to give them the golden mole captured Girling's imagination, becoming a symbol of rarity facts about baby animals and the fragility of mammals' existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara StarbuckPrasadamHall_Pairs|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella Pairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and SimbaLorna Scobie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coast, but that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo, blind 'Pairs in one eye and losing the sight in the other. Simba was not supposed to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about a circus cage in southern France. But she was, and he was, and things werenGarden''t right. Luckily, the zoo was too poor to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was is a no-starter as well, when it comes to keeping a fully-grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to one, in this great fun book/game hybrid for little read with a heart-warming messagefingers into creepy crawlies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Owen Davey|title=Mad About Monkeys|rating= 4|genre=ChildrenIt's Nona lift-Fiction|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction flap bookwith a difference, I guess monkeys are one of the ideal places because not only do you get to start. They aresee what's underneath, of course, our distant cousins, with you then must see if you can find a matching pair on the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million yearssame page. They have a large range across But beware! You cannot just use the planet, they have over 250 variant species, and they have a lot process of interesting facts and details regarding their social lifeelimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, their diet, their diversity and their potential future – but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may bealone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>