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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tormod V Burkey1529395224|title=Ethics for Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Burkey argues 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 manbeing on-call put on his father's current practices are outside life. When he was seventeen he took the realms opportunity of naturedoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. He is no longer part of the ecosystem Before long, but instead exists above it through he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dominating waysdream since he was a child. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies If anything, industry, money he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and all Luisa Uribe|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=In the pollution interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that comes with I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. The natural worldI wish I felt the same about human beings. So, Burkey arguesany book about dogs, no longer exists for man because he has altered I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it by such thingsproperly. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if And so it continueswas with ''A World of Dogs'', will make the world unrecognisablewith ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. For Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the world to become fuller, for it to be accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a world that seeks to provide for the needs of every living thing, lot about dogs since then it needs to change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kiki LjungLev Parikian |title=Build a ... ButterflyLight Rains Sometimes Fall

|summary=I love butterflieshave recently discovered a great pleasure: they're one of I sit and watch the delights vast numbers of my birds which visit our garden and it's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as it rests on a flowerdaily basis. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our ownAn hour can pass without my noticing. The book is primarily aimed at I've established which species feed from the five to eight year old age groupground, but I have which pop to confess that I had the feeders for a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809154</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lucy Jones|title= Foxes Unearthed: A Story quick snatch of Love some food and Loathing who settles in Modern Britain|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife |summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: for a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our townsgood munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or It would have been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centurieswonderful if, perceived variously as a beautiful animalchild, I'd had access to a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well book such as being the most ubiquitous ''The Secret Life of wild animals, it is also the least understoodBirds''. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes So – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsolagareth_steel|title=My First Never Work With Animals |author=Gareth Steel

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have I don't often begin my reviews with a child, warning but with ''Never Work With Animals''Whatit seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's That?life have proved popular since '' You will hear it over All Creatures Great and over and over againSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. If you are lucky they are pointing at something As a TV show the author would argue that you actually know – chair''All Creatures'' lacked realism, hat, my sense of regretas do other similar programmes. Sometimes they will point at something Gareth Steel says that the book is not too familiarsuitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itHe says that he's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull written it to an adultinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but to a toddler learning about the world they it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are a who's who of what's thatoccasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft1787332098|title=Amazing Animal BabiesHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Many children love ''When we do think about animals, but they love baby we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals even morestay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? I mean, cows are 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. A cat or a kitten? Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer If I had to most children who enjoy choose between the wide-eyed stumbling company of humans and the company of youth animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that is not dissimilar I read this book: no one was trying to their ownstop me but I was initially reluctant. HoweverI eat cheese, someone needs eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to give them either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>decision would not be comfortable.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie1786495902|title= Pairs in the GardenThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 45|genre= Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals''Pairs jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the gardentime by 'keeping going' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-: the next day she went to work to cover the-flap book with a differencebudget, because not only do you get to see what's underneathnext there was the EU referendum, you the political party leadership contests and then must see if you can find a matching pairit was party conference season. But beware! You cannot just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs One night she had to be sedated and returned home to findbegin long-term sick leave. One poor creature is all alone with no partnerThat was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1782407480|title=Knowledge EncyclopediaBird Love: Animal!The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of book, but iton-line booksellers: ''s not always exploring the most interestingsex life of birds'' it said. A series of dry facts plastered all I very nearly passed over the page with nary an image in sightbook, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. This dry type of learning is never going If the book was confined to work with some the sex life of our modern youthbirds, more used you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to spending time looking for imaginary animals on -day, bring up their phones, than researching real ones families and cope in a bookthe wild. If you want to capture their attentionNot only that, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this in one of book from the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely first page to seethe last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Derek Niemann1846045576|title= A Tale of Trees: Walks In The Battle to save Britain's Ancient WoodlandWild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ancient British woodland ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is something very special indeed. It captures our imaginationhow Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, 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. Itthat's hard to imagine life without our native woods, and yet in basically what it is – although right at the 40 years following end 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 author says that it is not intended to halt the decline or there will be nothing left outside nature reserves by 2020a reference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722753</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen MossBuckingham_Dawn|title=Planet Earth IIThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington

|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''Planet Earth IIat '' is The Little Book of the official companion to Dawn Chorus'' but the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series pull of the same namesounds 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 so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Our understanding of Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the world second time around us has reached . So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a new level, courtesy film title was suggesting something of groundprestige -breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access 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 diverse range TV series worthy of environments a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a ''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Junglesnature series about, Mountainssay, DesertsAlaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, Grasslandswhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, Islands the energy and Cities and showcases some of the amazing creatures that live heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in each onethe making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor GreiveTaylor_Owls|title=Penguin BloomOwls: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyA Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=Biography Animals and Wildlife|summary=Cameron and his wifeI feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, Sam, had been leading a very active, adventurous lifelocking me into their gaze. Even after In contrast with the birth hardness of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventuresthe deep-amber eyes, so they decided to travel to Thailand for a family holiday. They were having a brilliant time untilsoft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, suddenlyintricate, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accidentdetailed and beautiful. The accident left her paralysed An enigma; harsh andgentle at the same time, because of the sudden owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into take a very deep and dark depressioncloser look inside.. Cameron feared 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Piotr SochaMontgomery Tamed|title= The Book Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of Beesthe Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating= 43.5

|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''The Book New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of Beesanimals: shortly after meeting, Sy'' may look like s pet ferret had given Liz a typical picture booknasty bite, but it has a lot buzzing underneath the surface. It is adapted from the original Polish book Liz didn''Pszczolyt seem to mind at all.'' Packed 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 book. DonShe REALLY didn't be fooled mind being bitten by its simple cover; a weasel. I knew we were soul mates,''The Bee Bookrecalls Sy. '' is a treasure trove of information just waiting to Tamed and Untamed'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martin Brown|title= Lesser Spotted Animals|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as many as 5,500 different species of mammal on our planet, but how many of those do we actually get to see they share personal anecdotes and read amazing stories 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>animal world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MarrenBarr_Elephant|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow

|summary=Peter Marren is a wildlife writer based in Wiltshire. His fascination with butterflies began when he was a child: he still remembers catching a Painted Lady in his hands at Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the age gentle giants of five Africa and it transferring some of its colours onto his palm. Rainbow dustIndia, he dubbed but itwas good to find out more about them. 'It Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was a Nabokov moment because only he could put into words what most of us can only feel: the frankly sensual moment that they live in a childherds headed by their 's life when 'grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the full force of nature oldest female elephant is felt for the first timeone in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703184</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerGrindrod Outskirts|title=100 Facts Butterflies & Moths|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Damn those bees. They're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming rates, and the others, like butterflies and moths, are actually runners-up to Mr Bumble and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plants. Plus they're more visually attractive. But even though this book has two nudges and a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature of these pages. What stands out is the superlative content.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOutskirts|author=Lisa Woollett|title=Sea Journal|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Over the course of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although 'visits' might make what happens sound a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beaches, and some further afield, in much the same way that a gardener knows their own plot. She's aware of minute changes, how the phase of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect to find in the strandline and where it's come from. She delights in every variation of the weather and she's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths to up-to-the-minute science.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kay Maguire and Danielle Kroll|title=Nature's Day: Out and AboutJohn Grindrod

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I love books which encourage children to interact with nature '' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner- as opposed to a computer screencity housing estates. I like to see them getting outdoorsJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, preferably getting a bit dirtyas he puts it, being independent and getting excited about nature''I grew up on the last road in London. '' A good teacher will inspire childrenGrindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, but ''Nature's Day: Out and About'' provides support the various fights and encouragement in equal measures developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and might just be what political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a child needslot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem TaMoss Wild|title=Pattern PlayWild Kingdom: Cut, Fold and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsBringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Here's a neat idea for you. Provide pages with animal prints on one side Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by- only by animal printsproduct of human population growth, I mean the sort of colours and pattern which you see on animals, not paw prints! Some are subtle and others are rather more in-your-facethe modern world has increased significantly. On the reverse of these printed pages provide Through this book Moss suggests a cutting line so that you few ways in which we can cut and fold the paper and it becomes a 3D model of an animal. Provide start to bring back 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 Britain's wildlife without compromising the cutting, a little imagination and you have hours human way of funlife: we can co-exist with nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=The Big Bird Spot

|title=Penguins and Other Sea Birds|rating=4.5

|summary=Recently Istood 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've always been fascinated by Penguins: d arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I think itfound one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's because they look so first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'smart', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you' and strikingre going to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, yet survive in extreme conditionsamongst the guillemots, puffins, so the opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins herring gulls and other seabirds was too good to missrazorbills. Just the pictures would have been enough - the minimalist watercolours Oh, and you're looking for a pair of street artist and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but Sewellbinoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you's whimsical wit and ability re going to teach without being preachy makes this a book have to treasurefind them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris TownsendBurkey_Ethics|title= Out There|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been ''Out There'' as a long distance walker Ethics 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 booksFull World or, many accounts of his treks, and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for Can Animal-Lovers Save the first time, he gathers his thoughts and experience into a single volume, singing a hymn of praise for the Wild, and stirring defence against human predation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWorld?|author=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureTormod V Burkey

|summary=Burkey argues that man''An activity book, s current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem but not as you know instead exists above it'' through his dominating ways. He 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 covershimself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, lots of stickers money and they're the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in all the hope pollution that it will buy you an hour or two's peace in the school holidayscomes with them. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogethernatural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. It's part album in Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which you're going to collect and store your own finds, part explanation of if it continues, will make the best practices of how you should go about this and part nature guideworld unrecognisable. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band For the world to keep become fuller, for it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection grows. Production values be a world that seeks to provide for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for yearsneeds of every living thing, then it needs to change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamLjung_Butterfly|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung|rating=4.5

|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (donI love butterflies: they't worry about re one of the delights of my garden and it being 's always a board book - no one is going to say that they’re pleasure when there are children there and they see a bit too old butterfly close up, possibly for a board book once they see the first time, as it), add exquisite pictures of rests on a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the detailsflower. You'll need Kiki Ljung has given us the name of the bird in English and Latin opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a description 3D model of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultour own. Then you'll need details of where the bird The book is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how primarily aimed at the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs five to be something which will interest childreneight-year-old age group, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book I have to confess that I had a great deal of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectlyfun building my own painted lady. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in learned quite a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneyJones_Foxes|title=The English Countryside (Amazing Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Extraordinary Facts)Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones

|summary=I live As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the countryside 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 spend as much time a worthy foe. As well as being the weather will allow exploring most ubiquitous of wild animals, itis also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, so fiction, folklore and her own history with the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missedcreatures. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestinglyDiscussing the debate on foxes, but just one thing was worrying me Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about this book. It's a hardback us, and beautifully presented but its our relationship with the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbagnatural world. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyMetisola_1st|title=The HuntMy First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola

|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violenceGet used to two simple words if you have a child, or how it''What's all about the capture That?'' You will hear it over and over and killing over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of one animal by anotherregret. SheSometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practice of making something up comes into play – it's long had a pointbird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingto a toddler learning about the world, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on they are a passing wildebeestwho's leg really donwho of what't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies s that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark CockerPackham_Babies|title=Claxton: Notes From a Small Planet Amazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating= 43.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to ClaxtonMany children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, and yet only kitten? A meerkat or a few miles from Norwich. In smaller meerkat? The answer is a series of writings spanning no brainer to most children who enjoy the course wide-eyed stumbling of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in the village, and his relationship youth that is not dissimilar to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscapetheir own. All written with a deep knowledge and a wonderful eye for detailHowever, Cocker truly gets someone needs to give them the heart of the local facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife and the local community. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie SadlierPrasadamHall_Pairs|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 Pairs 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>}}{{newreviewGarden|author=David Neiwert|title=Of Orcas Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsLorna Scobie|rating=3.54

|summary='Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts Pairs in the first pages of his all-encompassing Garden'' is a fun book about killer whales/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. For him, encountering orcas, one of the worldIt's largest mammalsa lift-the-flap book with a difference, has been both humbling and inspiring, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong for us because not only do you get to exploit other creatures for our own benefit. After moving to Seattlesee what's underneath, he tried for three years to you then must see if you can find a matching pair on the whales, and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time in the places where the orcas live, simply for same page. But beware! You cannot just use the pleasure process of itelimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, that he started seeing them but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all the timealone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>