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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Franceschelli1529395224|title= Dinoblock|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= As befits a book about dinosaurs, 'Dinoblock' is suitably chunky. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in a 'pick me up and read me' kind of way. Inside this board book, twenty plus beasts are on parade. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seas,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance Letting the breeze.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Favourite Deadly Facts|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo must feel like. I for one think it will be like being trapped on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book of facts. There is nothing quite like a book about how long, how short or how wide something is to put a certain type of child in clover. This type Cat Out of book should come with a warning sticker on the front as any nearby adult is going to get their ear talked off, especially if it is a bumper fact book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keith Partridge|title=The Adventure GameBag: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Keith Partridge has been one of the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence and Human Planet are just some Secret Life of the films that have taken him all over the earth, from the caves of Papua New Guinea to the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, and if you have ever seen a climber or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] and Stephen Venables.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewVet|author= Simon Barnes|title= Ten Million Aliens|rating= 2.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think it fair to warn you that there are aliens all around us; weird and wonderful ones at that. Take symbions for example. They attach themselves to a host by means of a sucker and propagate by budding. They then move on to the next life stage and become either male or female. The male sheds its mouth and anus and goes of to search for a female. Once the female is impregnated, her digestive system morphs into a larva which breaks free from her when she dies. This may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the truth is that we share our planet with millions of strange life forms; each perfectly suited to survive and thrive in its own environment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722435</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Girling|title=The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small and Why They MatterSion Rowlands
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|summary=At age 15, on Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a camping trip GP and Rowlands didn't want to Dartmoorfollow in his footsteps, Richard Girling had an epiphanyparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. It When he was seventeen he took the first time that he had felt himself to be opportunity of doing work experience with a part of nature, that the environment really mattered to him. As family friend who was a big picture person, however, vet and was convinced this had never translated into an affinity was the job for individual species, even though he became a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''him. That is Before long, until he came across a mysterious listing for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaediawas at Liverpool University. This creature has never It hadn't - as with so many students - been seen in the wild, except as his dream since he was a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964child. For some reason If anything, the golden mole captured Girlinghe's imagination, becoming d wanted to be a symbol of rarity and the fragility of mammals' existenceprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Starbuck1839948493|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story A World of Bella Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and SimbaLuisa Uribe|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakers' photos on In the Black Sea Coastinterests of full disclosure, but I must tell you that probably happened before she ended up in I'm a poor Romanian zoosucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, blind in I've never met one eye I didn't trust and losing the sight in the otherI've loved most of them. Simba was not supposed to be shaking his magnificent maned figure I wish I felt the same about a circus cage in southern Francehuman beings. But she wasSo, and he wasany book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and things werendevour. Then I't rightm going to go back and read it properly. Luckily, the zoo And so it was too poor to operatewith ''A World of Dogs'', and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was a nowith ninety-starter as well, when it comes six pages devoted entirely to keeping a fullymy four-grown lion in captivitylegged friends. In alternating chapters Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the two catsaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read with s learned quite a heart-warming messagelot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Owen DaveyLev Parikian |title=Mad About Monkeys|rating= 4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction book, I guess monkeys are one of the ideal places to start. They are, of course, our distant cousins, with the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million years. They have a large range across the planet, they have over 250 variant species, and they have a lot of interesting facts and details regarding their social life, their diet, their diversity and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)Light Rains Sometimes Fall
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|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Call me fuddy-duddyIf you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, but I have never seen the need or someone who pretends to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to mewrite, when then you know that there are also countless ways unnumbered types of books. Some you read for one fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That islearn from in a random way, some for focussed research, of courseand some because they are, until nowbroadly speaking, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that kind of mature colouring-in booksthing you think you might like to write. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquentOr, informative and opinionated about what we examineindeed, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting are actually trying to see the resultswrite.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>1783966386
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley Robins1398508632|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is It had been on the latest book in cards for a while but it was the innovative series from Ivy Press, week-long consumer binge which aims to give an informative and entertaining overview pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of a given subject in bite-sized chunkseating only wild food. Each given subject has its own two-page spread The end of November, with a concise description on particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the leftbest time to start, covering all of in a world where the main pointsnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a colourful illustration on pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the right hand page, complete area around her was a known habitat with extra snippets a variety of informationterrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. Each chapter also has She had a handy 3car -second sum upand fuel. Most importantly, which further condenses the main idea of the chapter into she had shelter: this was not a single sentenceplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux0711266204|title=Where's the Elephant?The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)
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|summary=When I was growing up, TV only had four channels have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and games consoles came in watch the form vast numbers of the rubber keyed ZX Spectrumbirds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. Despite these meagre offerings, we would still spend endless summer hours in I've established which species feed from the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015ground, there are far more TV channels which pop to watch the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and games come who settles in high fidelity, what chance does nature for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would be surprisedbeen wonderful if, as despite all the creature comforts of the front rooma child, children still want I'd had access to play outside, all they have to be - a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is inspired.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne Barmangareth_steel|title=CreaturepediaNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel
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|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''CreaturepediaNever Work With Animals'' welcomes young readers 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 greatest companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show on earththe author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, showcasing more than 600 different creatures within its pagesas do other similar programmes. Rather than listing Gareth Steel says that the animals in traditional alphabetical order, this book groups creatures according is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to a variety of criteriainform and provoke thought, including colour, habits particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and outstanding physical characteristics. Of coursedistressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there is a handy index at the end to keep the traditionalists happy too. There are a few unusual categories thrown in, such as mythical beats occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and extinct animals, as well as endangered species that sadly, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>eating.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham1787332098|title=The Little Book of Garden Bird SongHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry 'When we do think about it being a board book - no one is 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 suggest that theyargue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn're a bit too old for thatt consider eating red meat...), add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then fill in I realised that I was quibbling for the detailssake of it. You'll need the name of the bird in English Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise I consider myself an adultanimal lover. Then you'll need details If I had to choose between the company of where humans and the bird is foundcompany of animals, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how I would probably choose the male and female adults differ and their sizeanimals. Then you need a 'Did you know?' fact and I insisted that I read this needs book: no one was trying to be something which will interest children, stop me but which adults might not know eitherI was initially reluctant. Does it sound simple? Well it isn'tI eat cheese, eggs, but 'The Little Book of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectlychicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about suspected that in a momentmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Macdonald1786495902|title=H is for HawkThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman
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|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at Isabel Hardman suffered a nature conference, trauma which she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judgechooses not to share. S/he had remarked She says that Macdonalda friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals's was three books jaws have sagged in one: a memoir of grief after her father's unexpected death, a biography of T. Hdisbelief. White, and an account of falconry experiments Hardman dealt with Mabel this at the goshawk. Macdonald quipped that time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the description made her book sound like washing powderEU referendum, but the political party leadership contests and then it's accurate nonetheless, was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and explains why the returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book won : 2020 was the Samuel Johnson Prize (year when the first memoir to do so) and is shortlisted for the Costa Biography awardbins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Strycker1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Magic and Mystery Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{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>
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{{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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Honeyborne BlueII|title=Life on AirBlue Planet II|author=David AttenboroughJames Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Marianne Taylor
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|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...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Four FieldsTamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Tim DeeSy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=Animal Lives: Lions10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Sally MorganCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Animal Lives: GiraffesOutskirts|author=Sally MorganJohn Grindrod|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Animal LivesWild Kingdom: ElephantsBringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Sally MorganStephen Moss|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sewell Spot|title=Animal Lives: CheetahsThe Big Bird Spot|author=Sally MorganMatt Sewell|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie LaksLjung_Butterfly|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hopeBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung
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|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=As a child Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at I love butterflies: they're one of the hands delights of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - my garden and even then she had to cope it's always a pleasure when the animals were taken from her. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - there are children there and that they helped her to heal too. In see a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they could do the same butterfly close up, possibly for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought first time, as it rests on a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapyflower.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide Kiki Ljung has given us the opportunity to Every Species|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicate, colourful, beautifully learn about butterflies and brilliantly adapted also to extract nectar from flowersbuild a 3D model of our own. Perhaps most of all for me it's their acrobatic flight - The book is primarily aimed at the ability five to hover and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hourseight-year-old age group, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so much. but I was drawn have to this book as soon as confess that I saw it, for had a number great deal of reasonsfun building my own painted lady.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>I learned quite a bit too!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marianne Taylor and Andrew PerrisJones_Foxes|title=Beautiful OwlsFoxes Unearthed: Portraits A Story of Arresting Species from Around the WorldLove and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jill HucklesbyMetisola_1st|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)My First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola
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|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>
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{{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?
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{{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>
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