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|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=As If you’re a child Ellie Laks was abusedwriter yourself, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuseror an aspiring writer, she also had or someone who pretends to endure parental indifference to what was happening to herwrite, then you know that there are unnumbered types of books. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to cope when the animals were taken learn from her. As an adult she discovered that she had in a real talent random way, some for healing animals - focussed research, and that some because they helped her are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like to heal toowrite. In a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that if the animals could help her Or, indeed, are actually trying to heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapywrite.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson1398508632|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=I've always It had been fascinated by hummingbirds on the cards for a while but it was the week- delicatelong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, colourfulparticularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, beautifully in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and brilliantly adapted a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to extract nectar from flowersrun a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Perhaps most Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Secret Life of all for me itBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's their acrobatic flight Non- the ability to hover and manoeuvre which has me hookedFiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I could sit and watch them for hours, amazed that the vast numbers of birds whose weight which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can only meaningfully be given 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 ounces can do so muchfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I was drawn 'd had access to this a book such as soon as I saw it, for a number ''The Secret Life of reasonsBirds''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk> So – what is it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marianne Taylor and Andrew Perrisgareth_steel|title=Beautiful Owls: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the WorldNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|genre=PetsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Owls are strange birds: because they're crepuscular and twilight isnI don't the best time for often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''seeingNever Work With Animals'' birds with any clarity they tend it seems to be the stuff appropriate. Stories of legend a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and we donSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you't know as much about them as we mightve been looking for. On As a TV show the other hand, theyauthor would argue that ''All Creatures''re the most recognisable of birdslacked realism, perhaps because of as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the forward-facing eyes and would look almost human if it was book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that uncanny ability he's written it to swivel the neck to almost 360°inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. Marianne Taylor has gone It deals with some way towards correcting this uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack of knowledge in ''Beautiful Owls''. She gives us an overview of the speciessensitivity, traces them back to the earliest civilisations although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and shows their evolutioneating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

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=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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Jill HucklesbyWenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846045576|title=Little Lost Hedgehog Walks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (RSPCA FictionTranslator)

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Grace Fallon was out in her garden one evening, doing what she did every night - making certain that her pet rabbits were fed, watered and safe. When she saw a movement in ''An instruction manual for the flower bed she went to investigate and found a baby hedgehog - or a hoglet as theyforest''re correctly called. Wisely she didnis how Wohlleben't attempt to touch s publisher described the animal but told her parents idea for this book, and then kept watch from inside the house. When the hoglet reappeared and looked rather distressed her mother rang the RSPCA and was told to give that's basically what it some food - dog food and crushed dog biscuits (NEVER milk as it can make any hog very sick). Later someone from is – although right at the RSPCA came round to collect end the hoglet and take author says that it is not intended to their centre for carebe a reference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Simon BarnesCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|titlerating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=How What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to be resist on a BAD Birdwatchercold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and listening to their song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the second time around. So, what do you get?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Home Animals and FamilyWildlife|summary=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 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'Look s Blue Planet series has delivered a second helping.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=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...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the windowAnimal 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 given Liz a nasty bite, but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. '<br>'She REALLY didn'See t mind being bitten by a birdweasel. I knew we were soul mates,'' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and Untamed''<br>is the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they'Enjoy ve always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Africa and India, but itwas good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''<br>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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Outskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary='' Outskirts''Congratulationsis an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. You are now a birdwatcherJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, as he puts it, ''I grew up on the last road in London.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk> 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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Sam HayStephen Moss|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=Archie The Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Recently 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 Guide Dog Puppylast 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: Hero our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have to find them in Trainingevery 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 Wildlife|summary=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 of every living thing, then it needs to change.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ljung_Butterfly|title=Build a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung

|summary=I donlove butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it't often pick 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 non-fiction 3D model of our own. The book for is primarily aimed at the 7+ five to eight-year-old age group, find it riveting reading and informative about but I have to confess that I had a subject with which great deal of fun building my own painted lady. I'm already familiarlearned quite a bit too!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jones_Foxes|title=Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=As one of the largest predators left in Britain, but that was the case with ''Archiefox is captivating: Hero a comfortably familiar figure in Training''our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Archie is 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 puppy destined to be beautiful animal, a guide dog for cunning rogue, a blind person vicious pest and he's just one story in a book about worthy foe. As well as being the pups-in-trainingmost ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the working dogsleast understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, the adults who have guide dogsfiction, or struggle to learn folklore and her own history with the techniques - or even what happens to creatures. Discussing the dogs who don't turn out to be debate on foxes, Jones asks what's needed. There's a full range as well as information our attitudes towards foxes says about what a guide dog costs - us, and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>our relationship with the natural world.

{{Frontpage|isbn=Metisola_1st|title=My First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=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 practice 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Amazing Animal Babies|author=Matt WhymanChris 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=Pig Pairs in the MiddleGarden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|rating=4.5|genre=PetsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I'm so pleased I read this 'Pairs in the Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's only a lift-the occasional writer who grabs me by the short and curlies -flap book with his observation of human naturea difference, but accomplished childrenbecause not only do you get to see what's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed meunderneath, but sold me you then must see if you can find a matching pair on the mini-pigs as wellsame 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Gordon Grice|title=The Book of Deadly Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal Move on to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Anthologies Reviews]]