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|genre=Emerging ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even moreSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Would you rather watch His father was a dog or watch 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 puppy? A cat or family friend who was a kitten? vet and was convinced this was the job for him. A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? Before long, he was at Liverpool University. The answer is It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their ownchild. HoweverIf anything, someone needs he'd wanted to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>be a professional footballer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1839948493|title= Pairs in the GardenA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in In the garden'interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I' is m a fun book/game hybrid sucker for little fingers into creepy crawliesdogs. It In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I's a lift-ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the-flap same about human beings. So, any book with a differenceabout dogs, because not only do you get I'm going to see whatsit down and devour. Then I's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pairm going to go back and read it properly. But beware! You cannot just use process And so it was with ''A World of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each pageDogs'', but only 3 pairs with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to findmy four-legged friends. One poor creature is all alone with no partner Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=DKLev Parikian |title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!Light Rains Sometimes Fall

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The encyclopedia may be If you’re a writer yourself, or an informative type of bookaspiring writer, or someone who pretends to write, but it's not always the most interesting. A series then you know that there are unnumbered types of dry facts plastered all over the page with nary an image in sightbooks. This dry type of learning is never going to work with Some you read for fun, some of our modern youthfor distraction, more used to spending time looking some for imaginary animals on their phonesvicarious emotion, than researching real ones some to learn from in a book. If random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you want might like to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyeswrite. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you Or, indeed, are likely actually trying to seewrite.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Derek Niemann1398508632|title= A Tale of Trees: The Battle to save Britain's Ancient Woodland|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ancient British woodland is something very special indeed. It captures our imagination, connects us to nature and fuels our creativity. The British have an almost symbiotic relationship with woodland and most of us have a small local patch where we can get away from the hustle and bustle of the modern world. It's hard to imagine life without our native woods, and yet in the 40 years following the war we lost more ancient woodland than in the previous 400. The destruction was large-scale and merciless and by 1985, we'd already lost a third of our ancient woodland. Predictions for the future were bleak: find a way to halt the decline or there will be nothing left outside nature reserves by 2020.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722753</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilderness Cure|author=Stephen Moss|title=Planet Earth IIMo Wilde

|genre= Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary=''Planet Earth II'' is It had been on the official companion to cards for a while but it was the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of the same nameeating only wild food. Our understanding The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around us has reached her was a new level, courtesy known habitat with a variety of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a diverse range of environments fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''sneak peeklive'' into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands and Cities and showcases some of the amazing creatures that wild just to live in each oneoff its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor Greive0711266204|title=Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilySecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|genre=Biography Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Cameron I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and his wife, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous life. Even after watch the birth vast numbers of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventures, so they decided to travel to Thailand for birds which visit our garden on a family holidaydaily basis. They were having a brilliant time until, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accidentAn hour can pass without my noticing. The accident left her paralysed andI've established which species feed from the ground, because of which pop to the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared feeders for his family's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, and managed to change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Piotr Socha|title= The Book quick snatch of Bees|rating= 4|genre=Animals some food and Wildlife|summary=''The Book of Bees'' may look like who settles in for a typical picture book, good munch but it has a lot buzzing underneath the surfaceI wish I was more knowledgeable. It is adapted from the original Polish book would have been wonderful if, as a child, I''Pszczoly.'' Packed d had access to the brim with bee facts and figures and accompanied by the wonderful comic-style artwork of Piotr Socha, the book is an odd amalgam: part coffee table book/ nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture a book. Don't be fooled by its simple cover; such as ''The Bee BookSecret Life of Birds'' . So – what is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Browngareth_steel|title= Lesser Spotted Never Work With Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers, elephants, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Marren|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesGareth 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|isbn=1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Kay Maguire Wenfei Tong and Danielle KrollMike Webster|titlerating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=NatureI was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''s DayBird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: Out ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846045576|title=Walks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and AboutRuth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|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 ''NatureAn instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's Day: Out publisher described the idea for this book, and Aboutthat'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just s basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be what a child needsreference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem TaBuckingham_Dawn|title=Pattern Play: Cut, Fold The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsAndrea Pinnington|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Here's What a neat idea for you. treat! Provide pages with animal prints on one side - only by animal prints, I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sort sounds of colours and pattern which you see a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle a cold and others are rather more in-your-facewet February morning. On the reverse of these printed pages provide a cutting line I spent an indulgent hour or so that you can cut and fold reading all about the paper birds and it becomes a 3D model of an animallistening to their song. Provide some stickers which replicate faces, tails or beaks Then - or whatever else you feel needs highlighting just because I could - I went back and number these so that they get into did it all again and it was just as good the right placesecond time around. All you need to add to the mix is a pair of scissors, parental supervision if necessary for the cuttingSo, a little imagination and what do you have hours of fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt SewellHoneyborne BlueII|title=Penguins Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Other Sea BirdsMark Brownlow

|summary=IYou may well remember when the sticking of a number 've always 2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been fascinated by Penguins: I think so good it's because they look so ''smart'' 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 strikingnever in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, yet survive in extreme conditionssay, so the opportunity to review Alaska (and boy aren't there are a book which contains fifty penguins lot of those these days) and other seabirds was too good wants to missmake another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Just But some nature programmes do have the pictures would have been enough - prestige, the minimalist watercolours of street artist energy and ornithologist Matt Sewell the heft to demand follow- but Sewellups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's whimsical wit and ability to teach without being preachy makes this Blue Planet series has delivered a book to treasuresecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris TownsendTaylor_Owls|title= Out ThereOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor|rating= 45|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been ''Out There'' as a long distance walker for almost four decadesI feel like I am being watched. For most A huge pair of that time he has been equally ''out there'' as a champion piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the outdoors. He is deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the author of many bookssurrounding area, many accounts of his treksintricate, detailed and his web site beautiful. An enigma; harsh and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for gentle at the first same time, he gathers his thoughts the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and experience into take a single volume, singing a hymn closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of praise for the Wild, Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and stirring defence against human predationElizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3. 5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>Animals and Wildlife|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''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 Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a weasel. I knew we were soul mates,'' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Barr_Elephant|title=Outside: A Guide 10 Reasons to Discovering NatureLove an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - Ten reasons to spend a lot more time outside. love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I want them to have the benefits of fresh air've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, increasing their levels of vitamin D and the knowledge gentle giants of what nature can offer them. I'd like the television, computers, mobile phones, video games Africa and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for freeIndia, but which - if we don't care for it - might not always be therewas good to find out more about them. Fortunately Perhaps the authors of most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Naturegrandmothers'' have . Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the same ideasone in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea PinningtonGrindrod Outskirts|title=The Nature Explorer's ScrapbookOutskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating=54

|summary=''An activity book, but not as you know itOutskirts'' is what it says an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the back cover countryside surrounding inner- and I have to agreecity housing estates. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity booksJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and ' 70s, as they usually have soft covershe puts it, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing you pick 'I grew up at on the supermarket checkout last road in the hope that it will buy you an hour or two's peace in the school holidaysLondon. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this various fights and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep developments it shut - has gone through over the subsequent decades, as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsenvironmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Production values for the book are high - Within this really is something which will be treasured for yearstopic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamMoss Wild|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it being a board book is an unfortunate by- no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it)product of human population growth, add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill which in the detailsmodern world has increased significantly. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and Through this book Moss suggests a description of the bird few ways in words which a child we can understand but which won't patronise an adult. Then you'll need details of where the bird is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs start to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book bring back some of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And thereBritain's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a momentwildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneySewell Spot|title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell

|summary=Recently I live 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'd arrived on the cliffs in the countryside and spend as much time as last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the weather will allow exploring it, so other birds on the chance to read Ruth Binneyprecipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The English CountrysideBig Bird Spot'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] , shows some cliffs very like those at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestinglyBempton, but just one thing was worrying me about this booktime you're going to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. ItOh, and you's re looking for a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size pair of book that binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you slip into a pocket or handbag're going to have to find them in every picture. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyBurkey_Ethics|title=The HuntEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey

|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained Burkey argues that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how itman's all about current practices are outside the capture and killing realms of one animal by anothernature. She's long had a point, He is no longer part of the ecosystem but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingadvancement in technologies, industry, money and lions sleeping off all the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut pollution that comes with them. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it when it comes to providing popular TV contentby such things. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompaniesIndeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about continues, will make the capture – often world unrecognisable. For the chase can world to become fuller, for it to be just as thrilling, and the result a world that seeks to provide for the intended victim is favourableneeds of every living thing, then it needs to change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark CockerLjung_Butterfly|title=Claxton: Notes From Build a Small Planet |rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, and yet only a few miles from Norwich. In a series of writings spanning the course of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in the village, and his relationship to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscape. All written with a deep knowledge and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets to the heart of the local wildlife and the local community. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewButterfly|author=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier|title=HareKiki Ljung

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology and I love butterflies: they're one of the hare is one delights of these. The hare wemy garden and it're going to meet is O'Hare - wells always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, we hope we're going to meet him: hares are well known possibly for being elusive and this one is no exception! We'll be following him through the churchyard first time, as it rests on a moonlit night - see him leaping in front of flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the moon - opportunity to learn about butterflies and through also to build a summer meadow, where we only catch sight 3D model of his hind legs and his earsour own. Look on The book is primarily aimed at the riverbank five to eight- is that him in the water? Then he's in amongst the cabbages year- the farmer is ''not'' going to be pleased about that. Is he in the foxglove patch? We can see the foxold age group, but it looks as though O'Hare has gone. The best sighting we I have to confess that I had a great deal of him is on the corn field, where he's leaping through the stubblefun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David NeiwertJones_Foxes|title=Of Orcas Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsLoathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones|rating=3.54

|summary='Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our soulsAs one of the largest predators left in Britain,' Neiwert asserts the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in the first pages our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of his allbright-encompassing book about killer whaleseyed wildness in our towns. For himYet no other animal attracts such controversy, encountering orcashas provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, one of the world's largest mammalsperceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, has been both humbling a vicious pest and inspiringa worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong for us to exploit other creatures for our own benefitalso the least understood. After moving to SeattleHere Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, he tried for three years to see the whalesfiction, folklore and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time in her own history with the places where creatures. Discussing the orcas livedebate on foxes, simply for the pleasure of itJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, that he started seeing them all and our relationship with the timenatural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb BraunMetisola_1st|title=The Tiger Prowls: a popMy First Animals|author=Aino-up book of wild animalsMaija Metsola

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItGet used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's a hardback book with a striking cover That?'' You will hear it over and over and when over again. If you open itare lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the coverhat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the tiger parental practice of the title appears: making something up comes into play – it''The tiger prowlss a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, stalking through but to a toddler learning about the jungle.world, they are a who's who of what'<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floors that.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher FranceschelliPackham_Babies|title= DinoblockAmazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating= 43.5|genre= For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary= As befits Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a book about dinosaurs, 'Dinoblock' smaller meerkat? The answer is suitably chunky. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in a 'pick me up and read me' kind no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of wayyouth that is not dissimilar to their own. Inside this board bookHowever, twenty plus beasts are on parade. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=The Hounds of FalsterboPairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''In between Pairs in the beach hutsGarden''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seas,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breezeis a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Favourite Deadly Facts|rating=4|genre=ChildrenIt's Nona lift-the-Fiction|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo must feel like. I for one think it will be like being trapped on a long car journey flap book with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book of facts. There is nothing quite like a book about how longdifference, how short or how wide something is because not only do you get to put see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a certain type of child in clovermatching pair on the same page. This type But beware! You cannot just use the process of book should come with a warning sticker elimination because there are 7 flaps on the front as any nearby adult is going each page, but only 3 pairs to get their ear talked off, especially if it find. One poor creature is a bumper fact bookall alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>