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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- Honeyborne -->[[image:Honeyborne BlueII.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849909679?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1849909679]] ===[[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was 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 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. [[Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Taylor -->[[image:Taylor Owls.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178240404X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178240404X]] ===[[Owls: A Guide to Every Species by Marianne Taylor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]]Frontpage 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 hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside... [[Owls: A Guide to Every Species by Marianne Taylor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Montgomery -->[[image:Montgomery Tamed.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1603587551?ie=UTF8&tagisbn=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1603587551]]1529395224 ===[[Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a weasel. I knew we were soul mates,'' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.<br> <!-- Barr -->[[image:Barr_Elephant.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184780943X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184780943X]] ===[[10 Reasons to Love an Elephant by Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] 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 gentle giants of Africa and India, but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too. [[10 Reasons to Love an Elephant by Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Grindrod -->[[image:Grindrod Outskirts.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473625025?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473625025]] ===[[Outskirts by John Grindrod]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] ''Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of countryside surrounding inner city housing estates. John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960's and '70's, as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, 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 topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart. [[Outskirts by John Grindrod|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Moss -->[[image:Moss Wild.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581639?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581639]] ===[[Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the human way of life: we can co-exist with nature. [[Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Sewell -->[[image:Sewell Spot.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843653265?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINtitle=1843653265]] ===[[The Big Bird Spot by Matt Sewell]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Recently I stood on a viewing platform at Letting the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one Cat Out 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. The 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 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 is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picture. [[The Big Bird Spot by Matt Sewell|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Burkey -->[[image:Burkey_Ethics.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905570856?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1905570856]] ===[[Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World? by Tormod V Burkey]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategoryBag:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of 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 technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them. The 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 world unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, for it to be a world that seeks to provide for the needs Secret Life of every living thing, then it needs to change. [[Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World? by Tormod V Burkey|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ljung -->[[image:Ljung_Butterfly.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847809154?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847809154]] ===[[Build a ... Butterfly by Kiki Ljung]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]] I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my 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 flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight year old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too! [[Build a ... Butterfly by Kiki Ljung|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Jones -->[[image:Jones_Foxes.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783963042?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783963042]] ===[[Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Animals and Wildlife| Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular Science]] 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 so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also 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 the natural world.[[Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain by Lucy Jones|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Metsola -->[[image:Metisola_1st.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847809677?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847809677]] ===[[My First Animals by Aino-Maija Metsola]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a who's who of what's that. [[My First Animals by Aino-Maija Metsola|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewVet|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|title=Amazing Animal BabiesSion Rowlands

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

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

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

|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The encyclopedia may Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be an informative type appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the bookis not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn's not always t lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry 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 most interestingnext David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. A series 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 dry facts plastered all over the page with nary it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an image in sightanimal lover. This dry type If I had to choose between the company of learning is never 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=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 with some of our modern youthto 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 used to spending time looking often than I did.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for imaginary animals ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on their phones-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, than researching real ones in but a closer examination suggested that the bookis about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you want would be missing an opportunity to capture their attentionunderstand how birds live day-to-day, you must first draw bring up their eyesfamilies and cope in the wild. DK Not only that, you 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 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 hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and his wifegentle at the same time, Samthe owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's pet ferret had been leading given Liz a nasty bite, but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a very activeweasel. I knew we were soul mates, adventurous life'' recalls Sy. Even after ''Tamed and Untamed'' is the resulting collaboration between the birth of their three sons two friends as they wanted share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=10 Reasons to continue their adventuresLove an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, so I've never needed ten reasons as they decided 've always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Africa and India, but it was good to travel find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to Thailand for find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Outskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary='' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a family holidayphenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. They were having a brilliant time untilJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, suddenlyas he puts it, Sam was involved ''I grew up on the last road in a dreadfulLondon.'' Grindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, almost fataland the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, accidentas environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. The accident left her paralysed Within this topic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss|rating=4|genre=Animals andWildlife|summary=Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, because which in the modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the sudden human way of life: we can co-exist with nature.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=The Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell|rating=4|genre=Animals and extremely severe impact Wildlife|summary=Recently I stood on her 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. The third double-page spread in wild-life she slid quickly into a author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very deep 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 dark depressionrazorbills. Cameron feared Oh, and you're looking for his familya pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you's futurere going to have to find them in every picture.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Burkey_Ethics|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Tormod V Burkey|rating=4|genre=Animals and his wifeWildlife|summary=Burkey argues that man's lifecurrent practices are outside the realms of 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 technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that comes with them. The 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 world unrecognisable. For the world to become fuller, until one day for it to be a small abandoned magpie chick came alongworld that seeks to provide for the needs of every living thing, and managed then it needs to change everything.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ljung_Butterfly|title=Build a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>1782119795</amazonuk>4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my 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 flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the five to eight-year-old age group, but I have to confess that I had a great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Piotr SochaJones_Foxes|title= The Book Foxes Unearthed: A Story of BeesLove and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones|rating= 4

|summary=''The Book As one of Bees'' may look like the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a typical picture bookcomfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, but it 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 a lot buzzing underneath worthy foe. As well as being the surface. It most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is adapted from also the original Polish book ''Pszczolyleast understood.'' Packed to Here Lucy Jones investigates the brim truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with bee facts and figures and accompanied by the wonderful comic-style artwork of Piotr Sochacreatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the book is an odd amalgam: part coffee table book/ nature encyclopaedia/factfile/picture booknatural world. 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 BrownMetisola_1st|title= Lesser Spotted My First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There may be as many as 5Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat,500 different species my sense of mammal on our planet, but how many regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Here the parental practice of those do we actually get to see and read about? making something up comes into play – it'Animal s a bird type thing. Books' are packed with cute pictures that show images of tigersitems, elephants, monkeys and zebrascolours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but what to a toddler learning about their lesser-known neglected cousins? Don't the world, they deserve are a minute in the spotlight? Numbat, Solenodon, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time to shine!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>who's who of what's that.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Amazing Animal Babies|author=Peter MarrenChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=PrasadamHall_Pairs|title=Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight Pairs in British Butterfliesthe Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie

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