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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Binney1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5
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|summary=I live Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring ithis footsteps, so particularly when he considered the chance to read Ruth Binneystrain that being on-call put on his father's ''The English Countryside'' 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 too good to be missedthe job for him. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestinglyBefore long, but just one thing he was worrying me about this bookat Liverpool University. Ithadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbagchild. Would it If anything, he'd wanted to be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>a professional footballer.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1839948493|title=The HuntA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45|genre=Animals and Wildlife Children's Non-Fiction|summary=My mother has long complained In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violenceI'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, or how itI've never met one I didn's all about the capture t trust and killing I've loved most of one animal by anotherthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. She's long had a pointSo, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeestdevour. Then I's leg really don't cut m going to go back and read it when properly. And so it comes was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to providing popular TV contentmy four-legged friends. I doubt Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all learned quite a lot about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourabledogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark CockerLev Parikian |title=Claxton: Notes From 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>}}{{newreview|author=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier|title=HareLight Rains Sometimes Fall
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|summary='Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our soulsIf you’re a writer yourself,' Neiwert asserts in the first pages of his all-encompassing book about killer whales. For himor an aspiring writer, encountering orcasor someone who pretends to write, one then you know that there are unnumbered types of the world's largest mammalsbooks. Some you read for fun, has been both humbling and inspiringsome for distraction, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong some for us vicarious emotion, some to exploit other creatures for our own benefit. After moving to Seattlelearn from in a random way, he tried some for three years to see the whalesfocussed research, and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time in the places where the orcas livesome because they are, broadly speaking, simply for the pleasure kind of itthing you think you might like to write. Or, that he started seeing them all the timeindeed, are actually trying to write.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>1783966386
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb Braun1398508632|title=The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animalsWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=It's a hardback book with had been on the cards for a striking cover and when you open while but itwas 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, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift in a world where the covernormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the tiger area around her was a known habitat with a variety of the title appears: ''The tiger prowlsterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, stalking through the junglefreezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''<br>live''Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floorwild just to live off its produce.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Franceschelli0711266204|title= DinoblockThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 45|genre= For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= As befits a book about dinosaurs, 'Dinoblock' is suitably chunky. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in I have recently discovered a 'pick me up great pleasure: I sit and read me' kind watch the vast numbers of waybirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. Inside this board book, twenty plus beasts are on parade An hour can pass without my noticing. If you don I't know your Triassic ve established which species feed from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where ground, which pop to the white sands meet the seasfeeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child,I''<br>d had access to a book such as ''The heather meets the sand dunesSecret Life of Birds''<br>''And long grasses dance the breeze.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk> So – what is it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshallgareth_steel|title=Favourite Deadly FactsNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|summary=At age 15, on I don't often begin my reviews with a camping trip warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphanybe appropriate. It was the first time that he had felt himself to be a part Stories of nature, that the environment really mattered to him. As a big picture person, however, this had never translated into an affinity for individual species, even though he became a longstanding environmental writer for the vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Sunday TimesNever Work With Animals''. That is, until he came across a mysterious listing definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaedia. This creature has never been seen in the wild, except as As a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964. For some reason, TV show the golden mole captured Girlingauthor would argue that 's imagination, becoming a symbol of rarity and the fragility of mammals' existence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Starbuck|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella and Simba|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenAll Creatures's Non-Fiction|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coastlacked realism, but as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye and losing the sight in the other. Simba was book is not supposed to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about a circus cage in southern France. But she was, and he was, and things weren't right. Luckily, the zoo was too poor to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, suitable for younger readers and fortunately someone realised the circus was a no-starter as well, when it comes to keeping a fullyafter reading -grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read I agree with a heart-warming messagehim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Owen Davey|title=Mad About Monkeys|rating= 4|genre=ChildrenHe says that he's Non-Fiction|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction book, I guess monkeys are one of the ideal places written it to start. They are, of course, our distant cousins, with the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million years. They have a large range across the planet, they have over 250 variant species, inform and they have a lot of interesting facts and details regarding their social life, their dietprovoke thought, their diversity and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may beparticularly amongst aspiring vets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great It deals with some uncomfortable and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, distressing issues but I have never seen the need to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to meit doesn't lack sensitivity, when although there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, of course, until now, occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the resultseating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley Robins1787332098|title=Oceans How to Love Animals in 30 Secondsa Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
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|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Oceans ''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in 30 Seconds is the latest book 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 innovative next David Attenborough series from Ivy Press.'' I was going to argue. I mean, which aims to give an informative cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and entertaining overview I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of a given subject in biteit. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals -sized chunksand I consider myself an animal lover. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, with a concise description on If I had to choose between the left, covering all company of humans and the main pointscompany of animals, and a colourful illustration on I would probably choose the right hand pageanimals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, complete with extra snippets of informationeggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up, which further condenses the main idea of I suspected that making the chapter into a single sentencedecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1786495902|title=Where's the Elephant?The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
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|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, haven't we? They appeal to children burst into tears and adults and everyone who has seen health-care professionals'jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'Wherekeeping going's : the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen next day she went to work to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's cover the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friendsbudget, who are hiding in next there. Elephant is probably was the easiest to spotEU referendum, but Snake the political party leadership contests and Parrot are in there too then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and with a little concentration you'll find themreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. When you turn That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the page you'll scan year when the trees again and discover their hiding placesbins went out more often than I did. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Goulson1782407480|title=A Buzz in the MeadowBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster
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|summary=Back in 2003, biologist Dave Goulson bought I was a run-down farmhouse and 33 acres of meadow in little perturbed when I looked at the idyllic French countryside. His aim was to create blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a sanctuary for all sorts couple of wildlife, where creatures could go about their business without fear on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of disturbancebirds'' it said. Soon I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the meadows were abuzz with activitybook is about the ''family life'' of birds, with insect species thrivingwhich is rather different. Birds, mammals and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch If the book was confined to the sex life of countrysidebirds, including the mysterious 'snake and owlyou would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-eating beast' day, bring up their families and cope in the elusive 'wack-wack' birdwild...but if you want to find out more about them Not only that, you will 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 read the book for yourselflast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 1846045576|title=Walks In The Wild Adventures|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=When I was growing up, TV only had four channels and games consoles came in ''An instruction manual for the form of forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the rubber keyed ZX Spectrum. Despite these meagre offerings, we would still spend endless summer hours in the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015idea for this book, there are far more TV channels to watch and games come in high fidelity, that's basically what chance does nature have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would be surprised, as despite all it is – although right at the creature comforts of end the front room, children still want author says that it is not intended to play outsidebe a reference book, all they have to be - is inspiredbut an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne BarmanBuckingham_Dawn|title=CreaturepediaThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45
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|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''at 'Creaturepedia'The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus' welcomes young readers to ' but the pull of the greatest show on earth, showcasing more than 600 sounds of a dozen different creatures within its pages. Rather than listing the animals in traditional alphabetical order, this book groups creatures according birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a variety of criteria, including colour, habits cold and outstanding physical characteristicsrather wet February morning. Of course, there is a handy index at I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the end birds and listening to keep the traditionalists happy tootheir song. There are a few unusual categories thrown in, such as mythical beats Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and extinct animals, it was just as well as endangered species that sadlygood the second time around. So, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>what do you get?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Little Book of Garden Bird SongBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take You may well remember when the sticking of a well-put-together board book (donnumber '2't worry about it being after a board book film title was suggesting something of prestige - no one is going that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to suggest that they're have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a bit too old for that), add exquisite pictures TV series worthy of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - numbered sequel, and then fill never in the detailsworld of non-fiction. YouIf someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren'll need the name t there are a lot of the bird in English those these days) and Latin and a description of wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultnumeral. Then you'll need details of where But some nature programmes do have the bird is foundprestige, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male energy and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs the heft to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know eitherdemand follow-ups. Does it sound simple? Well it isn'tAnd after five years in the making, but 'The Little Book of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectly. And therethe BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a momentsecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen MacdonaldTaylor_Owls|title=H is for HawkOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor
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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at a nature conference, she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judgefeel like I am being watched. S/he had remarked that Macdonald's was three books in one: a memoir A huge pair of grief after her father's unexpected deathpiercing orange eyes are staring right at me, a biography of Tlocking me into their gaze. H. White, and an account In contrast with the hardness of falconry experiments with Mabel the goshawk. Macdonald quipped that deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the description made her book sound like washing powdersurrounding area, but it's accurate nonethelessintricate, detailed and explains why beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the book won same time, the Samuel Johnson Prize (owl is beckoning the first memoir reader to do so) turn the pages and is shortlisted for the Costa Biography awardtake a closer look inside...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah StryckerMontgomery Tamed|title=The Magic Tamed and Mystery Untamed: Close Encounters of Birdsthe Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sometimes it is easy Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to overlook the wonder all around usbe ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. For exampleThey first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, that scruffy looking starling sitting on your garden fence may look unassuming and commonplaceSy's pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, but type Liz didn't seem to mind at all. 'murmuration'She REALLY didn' into the search bar on Youtube and prepare to be mesmerised as t mind being bitten by a huge flock of the birds perform a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which has an almost alien qualityweasel. If I knew we take time to stop and look at our feathered friendswere soul mates, we will see that they are anything but ordinary'' recalls Sy. The bird world is full of unsolved mysteries that humans are only now beginning to unravel: How do pigeons navigate? How do vultures find food? What are penguins afraid of? How do nutcrackers find their hidden food caches? ''The Magic Tamed and Mystery of BirdsUntamed'' searches for is the resulting collaboration between the answers to these questions, two friends as well as many more, opening our eyes to they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the hidden animal world of birds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallBarr_Elephant|title=Deadly Pole 10 Reasons to Pole DiariesLove an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Dear DiaryTen reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, today I really woke up on 've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the wrong side gentle giants of the bedAfrica and India, but it was good to find out more about them. For Perhaps the most people surprising fact which I discovered was that means waking up they live in a grumpy mood, but for me it literally means the wrong side of the bedherds headed by their ''grandmothers''. I stepped straight into a pool full of viscous fish Female elephants and their calves stay together and then I climbed out, only the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to be chased by a bearfind food and water - and she knows her herd. I am either eating She remembers about people too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Outskirts|author=Jackie MorrisJohn Grindrod|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You probably haven't heard ' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of Mergichans – although if you pronounce one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, as he puts it correctly in your head, ''I grew up on the last road in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they areLondon. '' One Grindrod explores the introduction of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valleygreen belt, and she is in the form of a snow leopardvarious fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, singing existence as she sees fit environmental and protecting the Shangri-La type locationpolitical arguments have affected planning decisions. But she cannot protect it from all-comersWithin this topic, least he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of all when she's trying to sing to find childhood, producing a memoir with a successorlot of heart. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Life on AirWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=David AttenboroughStephen Moss|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I was one of Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the generation who grew up when David Attenborough was a giant among presenters last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of wildlife programmes on televisionhuman population growth, and anything with his name attached was which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a must-watch. At the time, I had no idea that he was also one of the pivotal characters few ways in the development which we can start to bring back some of broadcasting, having been controller of BBC2 and director of programming for BBC TV for several years. These days, he is probably best remembered for writing and presenting Britain's wildlife without compromising the nine ‘Life’ series, a comprehensive survey human way of all life on the planet: we can co-exist with nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908524</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!The Big Bird Spot|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Matt Sewell|rating=54|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When Recently I was small 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 last few days. Finally, I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildingsfound one, big vehicles, big animalsafter visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. However, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – megaIt was great fun and very rewarding. What beastsThe third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, both from now and from the past''The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, are large enough but this time you're going to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into looking for twenty-three Little Auks, in amongst the hallowed pages guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have to find them in every picture.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Burkey_Ethics|title=Four FieldsEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tim DeeTormod V Burkey|rating=3.54
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=If asked to name, or even think of, four fields, the common Burkey argues that man might well struggle, such is 's current practices are outside the chance realms of him living in a citynature. He might not think is no longer part of the local park as a fieldecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and he may turn to all the field of the cloth of gold if a historianpollution that comes with them. The natural world, the field of dreams perhapsBurkey argues, or no longer exists for man because he might at least have something looking like a football pitch in his mind's eyehas altered it by such things. Tim DeeIndeed, global warming has caused climate change, not a nature scientist as such but so in tune with the outside world he really doesn't seem to have stopped indoors but to write this book in the past decadewhich, seems like the sort of person who could hardly name four buildingsif it continues, but would relish will make the chance to itemise his favourite fieldsworld unrecognisable. He is very doubtful any two in Britain are For the same. Like snowflakesworld to become fuller, then, they can bear for it to be a closer examination world that seeks to show their full picture – and Dee picks on four, across the world and noted provide for events across the last few thousand yearsneeds of every living thing, then it needs to focus on. The result is a rich – if at times over-rich – summation of the birdlife above the fields, and everything Dee knows and loves about themchange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ljung_Butterfly|title=Animal Lives: LionsBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Sally MorganKiki Ljung
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|genre=Animals and WildlifeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I love butterflies: they''Lions'' is part re one of the wonderful delights of my garden and it''Animal Lives'' seriess always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, each focusing as it rests on a particular animal from the African savannahflower. This time, Kiki Ljung has given us the king opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the beasts takes centre stagefive to eight-year-old age group, in but I have to confess that I had a book that mixes stunning photography with plenty great deal of fascinating facts and figuresfun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jones_Foxes|title=Animal LivesFoxes Unearthed: GiraffesA Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Sally MorganLucy Jones|rating=4.5
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|summary=The new ''Animal Lives'' series As one of picture books aims to help young children become the 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 expertsattracts such controversy, with each book focusing on has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a different wild beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. The current series looks at As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals of , it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the African savannah truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and this time it is her own history with the creatures. Discussing the turn of debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the noble giraffe to take centre stagenatural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Metisola_1st|title=Animal Lives: ElephantsMy First Animals|author=Sally MorganAino-Maija Metsola|rating=4.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=The eye-catching image on the cover of this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers Get used to pick two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it up over and over and start readingover again. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently into the camera lens whilst sharing a trunkful If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of lush green vegetationregret. There Sometimes they will point at something that is just ''not too familiar. Here the parental practice of making somethingup comes into play – it'' s a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about baby elephantsthe world, isnthey are a who't there? Who could resist opening the book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>s who of what's that.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Amazing Animal Lives: CheetahsBabies|author=Sally MorganChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=43.5
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=The first thing that struck me about this book was the excellent use of visualsMany children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Most of the photographs in the book are for Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a double page spread. smaller meerkat? The images are crisp and clear and provide answer is a great close-up view of these beautiful cats. Using no brainer to most children who enjoy the photograph as a centrepiece, each twowide-page section examines a different aspect eyed stumbling of cheetah behaviour. Subjects covered include growing up, hunting, territory and cheetahs under threatyouth that is not dissimilar to their own. The sections have a brief introductory paragraph in large, bold print and then several smaller facts surround the main pictureHowever, sometimes including smaller photographs someone needs to illustrate give them the main points.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PrasadamHall_Pairs|title=The Bee: A Natural History Pairs in the Garden|author=Noah WilsonSmriti Prasadam-RichHalls and Lorna Scobie|rating=54
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=Bees have been making ''Pairs in the Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a bit of lift-the-flap book with a media splash of latedifference, due to heightened concern about their declining numbers and general welfare. Governments have been urged to because not only do more you get to protect these important creaturessee what's underneath, with you then must see if you can find a recent EU ban matching pair on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as a 'victory for bees'the same page. There is no doubt that these prolific pollinators But beware! You cannot just use the process of elimination because there are a vital part of our ecosystem7 flaps on each page, and the human fascination but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with bees goes back to our ancient historyno partner. But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinating?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>
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