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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Mick Manning Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Brita Granstrom 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 - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Wild AdventuresA World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=When In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I was growing up'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, TV only had four channels I've never met one I didn't trust and games consoles came in the form I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the rubber keyed ZX Spectrumsame about human beings. Despite these meagre offerings So, any book about dogs, we would still spend endless summer hours in the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outsideI'm going to sit down and devour. In 2015, there are far more TV channels Then I'm going to watch go back and games come in high fidelity, what chance does nature have against ‘Call read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Duty’? You would be surprisedDogs'', as despite all with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the creature comforts accidental owner of the front room, children still want to play outside, all they have to be an American Dingo - is inspiredshe's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrienne BarmanLev Parikian |title=CreaturepediaLight Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5

|summary=''Creaturepedia'' welcomes young readers If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to the greatest show on earthwrite, showcasing more than 600 different creatures within its pagesthen you know that there are unnumbered types of books. Rather than listing the animals in traditional alphabetical orderSome you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, this book groups creatures according some to learn from in a variety of criteriarandom way, including coloursome for focussed research, habits and outstanding physical characteristicssome because they are, broadly speaking, the kind of thing you think you might like to write. Of course Or, there is indeed, are actually trying to write.|isbn=1783966386}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398508632|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a handy index at while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to keep start, in a world where the traditionalists happy toonormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. There are Wilde had a few unusual categories thrown inadvantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, such as mythical beats freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and extinct animalsfuel. Most importantly, as well as endangered species that sadly, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham0711266204|title=The Little Book Secret Life of Garden Bird SongBirds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)

|summary=Take I have recently discovered a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to suggest that they're a bit too old for that), add exquisite pictures great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of a dozen birds - one which visit our garden on each double-page spread - and then fill in the detailsa daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. YouI'll need ve established which species feed from the name of ground, which pop to the bird in English and Latin and feeders for a description quick snatch of the bird some food and who settles in words which for a child can understand good munch but which won't patronise an adultI wish I was more knowledgeable. Then you'll need details of where the bird is foundIt would have been wonderful if, what it eatsas a child, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?I' fact and this needs d had access to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isna book such as 't, but 'The Little Book Secret Life of Garden Bird SongBirds'' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Helen MacdonaldGareth Steel|titlerating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=H I 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 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 book is not suitable for Hawkyounger 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 it doesn'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

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at a nature conferencewe do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judgeelephants and so on. S/he had remarked that Macdonald's was three books And we assign them places in onesociety: a memoir cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of grief after her fatherwild animals stay out there, ''s unexpected deathsomewhere, a biography of T'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. H'' I was going to argue. White 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 account animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of falconry experiments with Mabel humans and the goshawkcompany of animals, I would probably choose the animals. Macdonald quipped I insisted that the description made her I read this book sound like washing powder: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, but it's accurate nonethelesseggs, chicken and fish and explains why the book won the Samuel Johnson Prize (the first memoir I needed to either do so) and is shortlisted for without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the Costa Biography awarddecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Strycker1786495902|title=The Magic and Mystery of BirdsNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman

|summary=Sometimes it is easy to overlook I was a little perturbed when I looked at the wonder all around us. For example, that scruffy looking starling sitting on your garden fence may look unassuming and commonplace, but type blurb for ''murmurationBird Love'' into the search bar on Youtube and prepare to be mesmerised as a huge flock couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds perform a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which has an almost alien quality'' it said. If we take time to stop and look at our feathered friends I very nearly passed over the book, we will see but a closer examination suggested that they are anything but ordinary. The bird world the book is full of unsolved mysteries that humans are only now beginning to unravel: How do pigeons navigate? How do vultures find food? What are penguins afraid of? How do nutcrackers find their hidden food caches? about the ''The Magic and Mystery of Birdsfamily life'' searches for of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the answers sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to these questions-day, as well as many morebring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, opening our eyes to you have missed the hidden world treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birdswhich run through this book from the first page to the last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1846045576|title=Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesWalks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Dear Diary, today I really woke up on ''An instruction manual for the wrong side of forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the bed. For most people idea for this book, and that means waking up in a grumpy mood, but for me 's basically what it literally means is – although right at the wrong side of end the bed. I stepped straight into a pool full of viscous fish and then I climbed out, only author says that it is not intended to be chased by a bear. I am either eating too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the wayreference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Buckingham_Dawn|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Jackie MorrisCaz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You probably havenWhat a treat! I really did mean to just 't heard 'glance'' at ''The Little Book of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits and magic, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totem, if you like, Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of a hidden Himalayan valley, and she is in the form sounds of a snow leopard, dozen different birds singing existence as she sees fit their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and protecting rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the Shangri-La type locationbirds and listening to their song. But she cannot protect Then - just because I could - I went back and did it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successoragain and it was just as good the second time around. Mergichans So, what do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Life on AirBlue Planet II|author=David AttenboroughJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I You may well remember when the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was one suggesting something of prestige - that the generation who grew up when David Attenborough 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 giant among presenters TV series worthy of wildlife programmes on televisiona numbered sequel, and anything with his name attached was a mustnever in the world of non-watchfiction. At the timeIf someone has made a nature series about, say, I had no idea that he was also one 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 pivotal characters in numeral. But some nature programmes do have the development of broadcastingprestige, having been controller of BBC2 the energy and director of programming for BBC TV for several the heft to demand follow-ups. And after five years. These daysin the making, he is probably best remembered for writing and presenting the nine ‘Life’ BBC's Blue Planet series, has delivered a comprehensive survey of all life on the planetsecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Marianne Taylor

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When I was small feel like I was fascinated am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with things that were big; big buildingsthe hardness of the deep-amber eyes, big vehiclessoft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, big animals. Howeverintricate, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – megadetailed and beautiful. What beasts, both from now An enigma; harsh and from gentle at the pastsame time, are large enough the owl is beckoning the reader to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into turn the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>and take a closer look inside...

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Four FieldsTamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Tim DeeSy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

|summary=If asked Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to name, or even think of, four fields, the common man might well struggle, such is the chance of him living in a citybe ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. He might not think of the local park as a field, and he may turn to the field They first bonded over their shared love of the cloth of gold if a historiananimals: shortly after meeting, the field of dreams perhaps, or he might at least have something looking like a football pitch in his mindSy's eye. Tim Deepet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, not a nature scientist as such but so in tune with the outside world he really doesnLiz didn't seem to have stopped indoors but to write this book in the past decade, seems like the sort of person who could hardly name four buildings, but would relish the chance to itemise his favourite fieldsmind at all. He is very doubtful any two in Britain are the same''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a weasel. Like snowflakesI knew we were soul mates, then, they can bear a closer examination to show their full picture – '' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and Dee picks on four, across the world and noted for events across the last few thousand years, to focus on. The result Untamed'' is a rich – if at times over-rich – summation of the birdlife above resulting collaboration between the fields, and everything Dee knows two friends as they share personal anecdotes and loves amazing stories about themthe animal world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=Animal Lives: Lions10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Sally MorganCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4.5

|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they'Lions'' is part 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 wonderful most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''Animal Livesgrandmothers'' series, each focusing on a particular animal from the African savannah. This time, Female elephants and their calves stay together and the king of oldest female elephant is the beasts takes centre stage, one in a book that mixes stunning photography with plenty of fascinating facts charge as she knows where to find food and water - and figuresshe knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Animal Lives: GiraffesOutskirts|author=Sally MorganJohn Grindrod|rating=4.5

|summary=The new ''Animal LivesOutskirts'' series of picture books aims to help young children become animal experts, with each book focusing is an interesting take on a different wild animalphenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. The current series looks at animals John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the African savannah 1960s and this time '70s, as he puts it is , ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the turn introduction of the noble giraffe 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 take centre stagewind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Animal LivesWild Kingdom: ElephantsBringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Sally MorganStephen Moss|rating=4.5

|summary=The eyeWildlife has been declining in Britain over the last few decades; it is an unfortunate by-catching image on product of human population growth, which in the cover of modern world has increased significantly. Through this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to pick it up and start reading. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently into bring back some of Britain's wildlife without compromising the camera lens whilst sharing a trunkful human way of lush green vegetationlife: we can co-exist with nature. There is just ''something'' about baby elephants, isn't there? Who could resist opening the book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=Animal Lives: CheetahsThe Big Bird Spot|author=Sally MorganMatt Sewell|rating=4.5

|summary=The first thing that struck me about this book was Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the excellent use RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of visualsthe puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Most of Finally, I found one, after visually sorting through all the photographs in other birds on the book are for a 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 images are crisp and clear and provide a great closeBig Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty-up view of these beautiful cats. Using three Little Auks, in amongst the photograph as a centrepieceguillemots, puffins, each two-page section examines a different aspect of cheetah behaviourherring gulls and razorbills. Subjects covered include growing up Oh, hunting, territory and cheetahs under threat. The sections you're looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have a brief introductory paragraph to find them in large, bold print and then several smaller facts surround the main every picture, sometimes including smaller photographs to illustrate the main points.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Burkey_Ethics|title=The Bee: A Natural History Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal-Lovers Save the World?|author=Noah Wilson-RichTormod V Burkey|rating=54

|summary=Bees have been making a bit Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of a media splash nature. He is no longer part of latethe ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, due to heightened concern about their declining numbers money and general welfareall 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. Governments have been urged For the world to do more become fuller, for it to protect these important creatures, with be a recent EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as a 'victory world that seeks to provide for bees'. There is no doubt that these prolific pollinators are a vital part the needs of our ecosystemevery living thing, and the human fascination with bees goes back then it needs to our ancient historychange. But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinating?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie LaksLjung_Butterfly|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hopeBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung

|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=As 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 child Ellie Laks was abusedbutterfly close up, but not only did she suffer at possibly for the hands of her abuserfirst time, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to heras it rests on a flower. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to cope when the animals were taken from her. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - learn about butterflies and that they helped her also to heal too. In build a brilliant leap 3D model of intuition she realised that if our own. The book is primarily aimed at the animals could help her five to heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born eight-year- old age group, but I have to confess that I had a place where animals were brought as a place great deal of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapyfun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L WilliamsonJones_Foxes|title=HummingbirdsFoxes Unearthed: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicate, colourful, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowers. Perhaps most Story of all for me it's their acrobatic flight - the ability to hover Love and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hours, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given Loathing in ounces can do so much. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw it, for a number of reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewModern Britain|author=Marianne Taylor and Andrew Perris|title=Beautiful Owls: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the WorldLucy Jones

|genre=PetsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Owls are strange birds: because they're crepuscular and twilight isn't As one of the best time for ''seeing'' birds with any clarity they tend to be largest predators left in Britain, the stuff fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of legend and we don't know as much about them as we mightbright-eyed wildness in our towns. On the Yet no other handanimal attracts such controversy, they're 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 recognisable ubiquitous of birdswild animals, perhaps because of it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the forward-facing eyes truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and would look almost human if it was not for that uncanny ability to swivel her own history with the neck to almost 360°creatures. Marianne Taylor has gone some way Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards correcting this lack of knowledge in ''Beautiful Owls''. She gives foxes says about us an overview of the species, traces them back to and our relationship with the earliest civilisations and shows their evolutionnatural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill HucklesbyMetisola_1st|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)My First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Grace Fallon was out in her garden one eveningGet used to two simple words if you have a child, doing what she did every night - making certain ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that her pet rabbits were fedyou actually know – chair, watered and safehat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. When she saw a movement in Here the flower bed she went to investigate and found parental practice of making something up comes into play – it's a baby hedgehog - bird type thing. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a hoglet as they're correctly called. Wisely she didn't attempt little dull to touch the animal an adult, but told her parents 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 it some food - dog food and crushed dog biscuits (NEVER milk as it can make any hog very sick). Later someone from a toddler learning about the RSPCA came round to collect the hoglet and take it to their centre for careworld, they are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BarnesPackham_Babies|title=How to be a BAD BirdwatcherAmazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=43.5|genre=Home Animals and FamilyWildlife|summary=''Look out of the windowMany children love animals, but they love baby animals even more.''<br>''See Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a bird''<br>''Enjoy it.''<br>''Congratulations. You are now smaller meerkat? The answer is a birdwatcherno brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam HayPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=Archie Pairs in the Guide Dog Puppy: Hero in TrainingGarden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I don't often pick up a non-fiction book for the 7+ age group, find it riveting reading and informative about a subject with which I'm already familiar, but that was Pairs in the case with ''Archie: Hero in TrainingGarden''. Archie is a puppy destined to be a guide dog fun book/game hybrid for a blind person and helittle fingers into creepy crawlies. It's just one story in a book about lift-the pups-in-trainingflap book with a difference, the working dogs, the adults who have guide dogs, or struggle because not only do you get to learn the techniques - or even what happens to the dogs who don't turn out to be see what's needed. There's underneath, you then must see if you can find a full range as well as information about what a guide dog costs - and it's not cheap!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matt Whyman|title=Pig in matching pair on the Middle|rating=4same page.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm so pleased I read this book. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by But beware! You cannot just use the short and curlies with his observation process of human natureelimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but accomplished children's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me on the mini-pigs as well3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>