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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - Remove as with so many students -->been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow1839948493|title=10 Reasons to Love an ElephantA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephantIn the interests of full disclosure, eh? I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. Well, personallyIn nearly eight decades, I've never needed ten reasons as theymet one I didn't trust and I've always been my favourite large animalloved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, the gentle giants of Africa and Indiaany book about dogs, but it was good I'm going to find out more about themsit down and devour. Perhaps the most surprising fact which Then I discovered 'm going to go back and read it properly. And so it was that they live in herds headed by their with ''grandmothersA World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Female elephants and their calves stay together and Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water accidental owner of an American Dingo - and she knows her herd. She remembers 's learned quite a lot about people toodogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John GrindrodLev Parikian |title= OutskirtsLight Rains Sometimes Fall |rating= 4.5|genre =Animals and Wildlife|summary=''Outskirts'' is If you’re a writer yourself, or an interesting take on a phenomenon aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estatesbooks. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in the 1960's a random way, some for focussed research, and '70'ssome because they are, as he puts itbroadly speaking, ''I grew up on the last road in Londonkind of thing you think you might like to write.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green beltOr, and the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topicindeed, he has somehow managed are actually trying to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heartwrite.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473625025</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Moss1398508632|title= Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's WildlifeThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary= Wildlife has It had been declining in Britain over on the last few decades; cards for a while but it is an unfortunate bywas the week-product long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of human population growthNovember, which particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the modern best time to start, in a world has increased significantlywhere the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Through this book Moss suggests Wilde had a few ways in advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which we can start allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature'live'' wild just to live off its produce. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581639</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Sewell0711266204|title=The Big Bird SpotSecret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Recently I stood on have recently discovered a viewing platform at great pleasure: I sit and watch the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a very helpful volunteer guided daily basis. An hour can pass without my sight line noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to one the feeders for a quick snatch of the puffins some food and who'd arrived on the cliffs settles in the last few daysfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. FinallyIt would have been wonderful if, as a child, I found 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 first d had access to a book for children, such as ''The Big Bird SpotSecret Life of Birds'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. Oh, and you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher So – what is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653265</amazonuk>it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tormod V Burkeygareth_steel|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Burkey argues that manI don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's current practices are outside life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the realms of naturecompanion volume you've been looking for. He is no longer part of As a TV show the ecosystemauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, but instead exists above it through his dominating waysas do other similar programmes. He Gareth Steel says that the book is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money not suitable for younger readers and all the pollution that comes - after reading - I agree with themhim. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because He says that he has altered 's written it by such thingsto inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. Indeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it continuesdoesn't lack sensitivity, will make the world unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, for it to although there are occasions when you would be a world that seeks to provide for the needs of every living thing, then it needs to changebest choosing between reading and eating. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Kiki LjungHenry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''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 society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=Build The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|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' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season.One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave.That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did. Butterfly}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I love butterflieswas a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: they're one of 'exploring the delights sex life of my garden and birds'' it's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for said. I very nearly passed over the first timebook, as it rests on but a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us closer examination suggested that the opportunity to learn book is about butterflies and also to build a 3D model the ''family life'' of our ownbirds, which is rather different. The If the book is primarily aimed at was confined to the five sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to eight year old age groupunderstand how birds live day-to-day, but I have to confess that I had 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 of Love bring up their families and Loathing cope in Modern Britain|rating= 4|genre= Animals and Wildlife |summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britainwild. Not only that, you have missed the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash treat 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 many beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, illustrations about a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous wide variety of wild animals, it is also birds which run through this book from the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – 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 first page to the natural worldlast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aino-Maija Metsola1846045576|title=My First Animals Walks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''WhatAn instruction manual for the forest's That?'is how Wohlleben' You will hear it over s publisher described the idea for this book, and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know 's basically what it is – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point although right at something the end the author says that it is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's intended to be a bird type thing. Books that show images of itemsreference book, colours or animals may seem a little dull to but an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's thatappetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809677</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Packham and Jason CockcroftBuckingham_Dawn|title=Amazing Animal BabiesThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Many children love animals, What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch the pull of the sounds of a dog or watch dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a puppy? cold and rather wet February morning. A cat I spent an indulgent hour or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy so reading all about the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar birds and listening to their ownsong. HoweverThen - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packhamwhat do you get?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405277467</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna ScobieHoneyborne BlueII|title= Pairs in the Garden|rating= 4|genre= Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Pairs in the garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what's underneath, you then must see if you can find a matching pair. But beware! You cannot just use process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808832</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBlue Planet II|author=DK|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The encyclopedia You may be an informative type well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of bookprestige - that the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but it's not always has until recently almost been confined to the most interesting. A cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of dry facts plastered all over a numbered sequel, and never in the page with nary an image in sightworld of non-fiction. This dry type of learning is never going to work with some of our modern youthIf someone has made a nature series about, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phonessay, than researching real ones in Alaska (and boy aren't there are a book. If you want lot of those these days) and wants to capture their attentionmake another, you must first draw their eyeswhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. DK But some nature programmes do have attempted this in one of the most colourful prestige, the energy and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely the heft to seedemand follow-ups. And after five years in the making, the BBC's Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

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

|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=''Planet Earth II'' is the official companion to the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the same name. Our understanding hardness of the world around us has reached a new leveldeep-amber eyes, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access to a diverse range of environments and a ''sneak peek'' soft grey feathers fan out into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Desertsthe surrounding area, Grasslandsintricate, Islands detailed and Cities beautiful. An enigma; harsh and showcases some of gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the amazing creatures that live in each onepages and take a closer look inside...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cameron Bloom and Bradley Trevor GreiveMontgomery Tamed|title=Penguin BloomTamed and Untamed: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a FamilyClose Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Biography Animals and Wildlife|summary=Cameron Sy Montgomery and his wife, SamElizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had been leading given Liz a very activenasty bite, adventurous lifebut Liz didn't seem to mind at all. Even after the birth of their three sons they wanted to continue their adventures, so they decided to travel to Thailand for ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a family holidayweasel. They I knew we were having a brilliant time untilsoul mates, suddenly, Sam was involved in a dreadful, almost fatal, accident'' recalls Sy. The accident left her paralysed ''Tamed and, because of the sudden and extremely severe impact on her life she slid quickly into a very deep and dark depression. Cameron feared for his familyUntamed's future, and his wife's life, until one day a small abandoned magpie chick came along, is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and managed to change everythingamazing stories about the animal world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Piotr SochaBarr_Elephant|title= The Book of Bees10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating= 4

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they'The Book ve always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Bees'' may look like a typical picture bookAfrica and India, but it has a lot buzzing underneath the surfacewas good to find out more about them. It is adapted from Perhaps the original Polish book most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''Pszczoly.grandmothers'' Packed to the brim with bee facts . Female elephants and figures their calves stay together and accompanied by the wonderful comicoldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water -style artwork of Piotr Socha, the book is an odd amalgam: part coffee table book/ nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture bookand she knows her herd. She remembers about people too. Don't be fooled by its simple cover; ''The Bee Book'' is a treasure trove of information just waiting to 'bee' harvested!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500650950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin BrownGrindrod Outskirts|title= Lesser Spotted AnimalsOutskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There may be as many as 5,500 different species '' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of mammal the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on our planet, but how many the edge of those do we actually get to see one such estate in the 1960s and read about? 'Animal Books' are packed with cute pictures of tigers70s, elephantsas he puts it, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve a minute 'I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the spotlight? Numbatgreen belt, Solenodonand the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, Zorillaas environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time he has somehow managed to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter MarrenMoss Wild|title=Rainbow DustWild Kingdom: Three Centuries of Delight in British ButterfliesBringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss

|summary=Peter Marren is a wildlife writer based Wildlife has been declining in Wiltshire. His fascination with butterflies began when he was a child: he still remembers catching a Painted Lady in his hands at Britain over the age of five and last few decades; it transferring some is an unfortunate by-product of its colours onto his palm. Rainbow dusthuman population growth, he dubbed itwhich in the modern world has increased significantly. 'It was Through this book Moss suggests a Nabokov moment because only he could put into words what most few ways in which we can start to bring back some of us can only feel: the frankly sensual moment in a childBritain's life when wildlife without compromising the full force human way of life: we can co-exist with nature is felt for the first time.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703184</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve ParkerSewell Spot|title=100 Facts Butterflies & MothsThe Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Damn those beesRecently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. TheyThe third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're not the only flying creatures vanishing from our world at alarming ratesgoing to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, and in amongst the othersguillemots, like butterflies and mothspuffins, are actually runners-up to Mr Bumble herring gulls and his mysteriously dying ilk in pollinating plantsrazorbills. Plus theyOh, and you're more visually attractive. But even though this book has two nudges and looking for a thanks given to the Butterfly Conservation body, that's certainly not the more notable feature pair of these pages. What stands out binoculars too: our bird watcher is the superlative contentvery careless because you're going to have to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786170116</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa WoollettBurkey_Ethics|title=Sea JournalEthics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey|rating=54|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Over Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the course realms of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her on her visits to various beaches nature. He is no longer part of the ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in the British Islestechnologies, although 'visits' might make what happens sound a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beachesindustry, money and some further afield, in much all the same way pollution that a gardener knows their own plotcomes with them. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has altered it by such things. She's aware of minute changesIndeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, how will make the phase of world unrecognisable. For the moon will affect the tideworld to become fuller, what she can expect for it to be a world that seeks to find in provide for the strandline and where needs of every living thing, then it's come from. She delights in every variation of the weather and she's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths needs to up-to-the-minute sciencechange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kay Maguire and Danielle KrollLjung_Butterfly|title=Nature's Day: Out and AboutBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung|rating=4.5

|summary=I love books which encourage butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always a pleasure when there are children to interact with nature - there and they see a butterfly close up, possibly for the first time, as opposed to it rests on a computer screenflower. I like Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to see them getting outdoors, preferably getting build a bit dirty, being independent and getting excited about nature3D model of our own. A good teacher will inspire childrenThe book is primarily aimed at the five to eight-year-old age group, but ''Nature's Day: Out and About'' provides support and encouragement in equal measures and might just be what I have to confess that I had a child needsgreat deal of fun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780800X</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Kroll and Nghiem TaJones_Foxes|title=Pattern PlayFoxes Unearthed: Cut, Fold A Story of Love and Make Your Own 3D Animal ModelsLoathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones

|summary=I've always As one of 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 attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been fascinated by Penguins: I think it's because they look so ''smart'' and strikingambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, yet survive in extreme conditionsa cunning rogue, so the opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins vicious pest and other seabirds was too good to missa worthy foe. Just As well as being the pictures would have been enough - most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the minimalist watercolours of street artist truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but Sewell's whimsical wit her own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and ability to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasureour relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris TownsendMetisola_1st|title= Out There|rating= 4|genre= My First Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been ''Out There'' as a long distance walker for almost four decades. For most of that time he has been equally ''out there'' as a champion of the outdoors. He is the author of many books, many accounts of his treks, and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visits. Here, for the first time, he gathers his thoughts and experience into a single volume, singing a hymn of praise for the Wild, and stirring defence against human predation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureAino-Maija Metsola

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - Get used to spend two simple words if you have a lot more time outside. I want them to have the benefits of fresh airchild, increasing their levels of vitamin D ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and the knowledge of what nature can offer themover again. I'd like the televisionIf you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, computershat, mobile phones, video games and even books to be laid aside and attention given to what my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is available for free, but which - if we don't care for it - might not always be theretoo familiar. Fortunately Here the authors parental practice of making something up comes into play – it''Outside: A Guide s a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to discovering Naturea toddler learning about the world, they are a who's who of what' have the same ideass that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea PinningtonPackham_Babies|title=The Nature Explorer's ScrapbookAmazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=3.5

|summary=''An activity bookMany children love animals, but not as you know it'' is what it says on the back cover - and I have to agreethey love baby animals even more. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft covers, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing Would you pick up at the supermarket checkout in the hope that it will buy you an hour rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or two's peace in the school holidays. ''a smaller meerkat? The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' answer is a different beast altogether. It's part album in which you're going no brainer to collect and store your own finds, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this and part nature guide. It's a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection grows. Production values for most children who enjoy the book are high wide- this really is something which will be treasured for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham|title=The Little Book eyed stumbling of Woodland Bird Songs|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one youth that is going not dissimilar to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it), 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 adulttheir own. Then you'll need details of where the bird is foundHowever, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how someone needs to give them the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact facts about baby animals and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simplewho better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneyPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=The English Countryside (Amazing Pairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Extraordinary Facts)Lorna Scobie

|summary=I live ''Pairs in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth BinneyGarden's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[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 is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its lift-the size of -flap book that with a difference, because not only do you get to see what's underneath, you slip into then must see if you can find a pocket or handbagmatching pair on the same page. But beware! You cannot just use the process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>