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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Grindrod1529395224|title= OutskirtsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre =Animals and Wildlife|summary=''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estatesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'70'st want to follow in his footsteps, as particularly when he puts it, considered the strain that being on-call put on his father''I grew up on the last road in Londons life.'' Grindrod explores When he was seventeen he took the introduction opportunity of the green belt, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decadesjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisionswith so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Within this topicIf anything, he has somehow managed 'd wanted to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing be a memoir with a lot of heartprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1839948493|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Wildlife has been declining in Britain over In the last few interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades; it is an unfortunate by-product , I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human population growthbeings. So, any book about dogs, which in the modern world has increased significantlyI'm going to sit down and devour. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start Then I'm going to bring go back some and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of BritainDogs''s wildlife without compromising , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the human way accidental owner of life: we can coan American Dingo -exist with natureshe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt SewellLev Parikian |title=The Big Bird SpotLight Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Recently I stood on If you’re a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to one write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few daysbooks. FinallySome you read for fun, I found onesome for distraction, 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 first book some for childrenvicarious emotion, ''The Big Bird Spot''some to learn from in a random way, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auksfocussed research, in amongst the guillemotsand some because they are, puffinsbroadly speaking, herring gulls and razorbillsthe kind of thing you think you might like to write. OhOr, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very carelessindeed, because you're going are actually trying to have to find them in every picturewrite.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tormod V Burkey1398508632|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre= Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary= Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside It had been on the cards for a while but it was the realms week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of natureeating only wild food. He is no longer part The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the ecosystembest time to start, but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by advancement in technologies, industryclimate change, money Brexit and all a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the pollution that comes area around her was a known habitat with thema variety of terrains. The natural worldShe had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such thingsfreezer and dehydrator. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the world unrecognisable She had a car - and fuel. For the world to become fuller Most importantly, for it to be she had shelter: this was not a world that seeks plan to provide for the needs of every living thing, then it needs ''live'' wild just to changelive off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kiki Ljung0711266204|title=Build a ... ButterflyThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|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 ''Planet Earth IIglance'' at '' is The Little Book of the official companion to Dawn Chorus'' but the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series pull of the same name. Our understanding sounds of the world around us has reached a new level, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a diverse range of environments cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and a ''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worldslistening to their song. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands Then - just because I could - I went back and Cities did it all again and showcases some of it was just as good the amazing creatures that live in each onesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=Cameron Bloom James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Bradley Trevor GreiveWildlife|summary=You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film titlewas suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the world of non-fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and boy aren't there are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. But some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Penguin BloomTaylor_Owls|title=Owls: 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 ''New York Times''The Book 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>is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownBarr_Elephant|title= Lesser Spotted 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 10 Reasons to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLove an Elephant|author=Peter Marren|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesCatherine 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 ThereEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been Burkey argues that man''Out There'' as a long distance walker for almost four decadess current practices are outside the realms of nature. For most of that time he has been equally ''out there'' as a champion He is no longer part of the outdoorsecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is the author of many bookshimself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, many accounts of his treksindustry, money and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visitsall the pollution that comes with them. HereThe natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the first timeworld unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, he gathers his thoughts and experience into for it to be a single volume, singing a hymn of praise world that seeks to provide for the Wildneeds of every living thing, and stirring defence against human predationthen it needs to change. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)Ljung_Butterfly|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung|rating=4.5

|summary=Ilove butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it'm on s always a mission: I want pleasure when there are children - adults too - to spend there and they see a lot more butterfly close up, possibly for the first time outside, as it rests on a flower. I want them Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D learn about butterflies and the knowledge also to build a 3D model of what nature can offer themour own. I'd like The book is primarily aimed at the television, computers, mobile phones, video games and even books five to be laid aside and attention given to what is available for freeeight-year-old age group, but which - if we don't care for it - might not always be there. Fortunately the authors I have to confess that I had a great deal of ''Outside: A Guide to discovering Nature'' have the same ideasfun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jones_Foxes|title=Caz Buckingham Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Andrea PinningtonLoathing in Modern Britain|titleauthor=The Nature Explorer's ScrapbookLucy Jones|rating=54

|summary=''An activity bookAs one of the largest predators left in Britain, but not as you know it'' the fox is what it says on the back cover captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright- and I have to agreeeyed wildness in our towns. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' 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 they usually have soft coversa beautiful animal, lots of stickers a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and they're a worthy foe. As well as being the sort most ubiquitous of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that wild animals, it will buy you an hour or two's peace in is also the school holidaysleast understood. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going to collect Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and store your her own findshistory with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about this us, and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book our relationship with an elastic band to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection grows. Production values for the book are high - this really is something which will be treasured for yearsnatural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamMetisola_1st|title=The Little Book of Woodland Bird SongsMy First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going Get used to say that they’re two simple words if you have a bit too old for a board book once they see it)child, add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the details. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adult. Then youWhat's That?''ll need details of where the bird is found, what You will hear it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male over and female adults differ over and their sizeover again. Then If you need a 'Did are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know?' fact and this needs to be – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something which will interest children, but which adults might that is not know eithertoo familiar. Does it sound simple? Well Here the parental practice of making something up comes into play – it isn'ts 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 the world, they are a who'The Little Book s who of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And therewhat's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneyPackham_Babies|title=The English Countryside (Amazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Extraordinary Facts)Jason Cockcroft|rating=43.5

|summary=I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring itMany children love animals, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missedbut they love baby animals even more. We've met Ruth [[Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's answer is a hardback and beautifully presented but its no brainer to most children who enjoy the size wide-eyed stumbling of book youth that you slip into a pocket or handbagis not dissimilar to their own. Would it be rather superficialHowever, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=The HuntPairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie

|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on ''Pairs in the death and violence, or how itGarden''s all about the capture and killing of one animal by anotheris a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. SheIt's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off lift-the heat without munching on -flap book with a passing wildebeestdifference, because not only do you get to see what's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompaniesunderneath, even you then must see if you can find a matching pair on the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about same page. But beware! You cannot just use the capture – often the chase can be just as thrillingprocess of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, and the result for the intended victim but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is favourableall alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>