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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1529395224|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on Letting the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing Cat Out of one animal by another. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mark Cocker|title=ClaxtonBag: Notes From a Small Planet |rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, and yet only a few miles from Norwich. In a series of writings spanning the course of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in the village, and his relationship to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscape. All written with a deep knowledge and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets to the heart of the local wildlife and the local community. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier|title=Hare|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology and the hare is one of these. The hare we're going to meet is O'Hare - well, we hope we're going to meet him: hares are well known for being elusive and this one is no exception! We'll be following him through the churchyard on a moonlit night - see him leaping in front Secret Life of the moon - and through a summer meadow, where we only catch sight of his hind legs and his ears. Look on the riverbank - is that him in the water? Then he's in amongst the cabbages - the farmer is ''not'' going to be pleased about that. Is he in the foxglove patch? We can see the fox, but it looks as though O'Hare has gone. The best sighting we have of him is on the corn field, where he's leaping through the stubble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewVet|author=David Neiwert|title=Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsSion Rowlands

|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn'Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts t want to follow in the first pages of his all-encompassing book about killer whales. For himfootsteps, encountering orcas, one of particularly when he considered the worldstrain that being on-call put on his father's largest mammals, has been both humbling life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and inspiring, reminding was convinced this was the job for him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong for us to exploit other creatures for our own benefit. After moving to Seattle Before long, he tried for three years to see the whales, and finally gave up; it was only when at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he began spending time in the places where the orcas live, simply for the pleasure of itwas a child. If anything, that he started seeing them all the time'd wanted to be a professional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb Braun1839948493|title=The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animals|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open it, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift the cover, the tiger A World of the title appears: ''The tiger prowls, stalking through the jungle.''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floor.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDogs|author=Christopher Franceschelli|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 Carlie Sorosiak 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 the breeze.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Favourite Deadly FactsLuisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo In the interests of full disclosure, I must feel liketell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I for 've never met one think it will be like being trapped on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book I didn't trust and I've loved most of factsthem. I wish I felt the same about human beings. There is nothing quite like a So, any book about how longdogs, how short or how wide something is I'm going to put a certain type of child in cloversit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back and read it properly. This type And so it was with ''A World of book should come Dogs'', with a warning sticker on ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the front as any nearby adult is going to get their ear talked off, especially if it is accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a bumper fact booklot about dogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keith PartridgeLev Parikian |title=The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the EdgeLight Rains Sometimes Fall |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 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>}}{{newreview|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 Matter|rating=3.5

|summary=At age 15, on If you’re a camping trip to Dartmoorwriter yourself, Richard Girling had or an epiphany. It was the first time that he had felt himself aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to be a part of naturewrite, then you know that the environment really mattered to himthere are unnumbered types of books. As a big picture personSome you read for fun, howeversome for distraction, this had never translated into an affinity some for individual speciesvicarious emotion, even though he became some to learn from in a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''. That israndom way, until he came across a mysterious listing some for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaedia. This creature has never been seen in the wildfocussed research, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964. For and some reasonbecause they are, the golden mole captured Girling's imaginationbroadly speaking, becoming a symbol of rarity and the fragility kind of mammals' existencething you think you might like to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying to write.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Starbuck1398508632|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella and SimbaWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as a youngster as a model for holidaymakers' photos It had been on the Black Sea Coast, cards for a while but that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye and losing it was the sight in the otherweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Simba The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not supposed the best time to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about start, in a circus cage in southern France. But she wasworld where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and he was, and things weren't righta pandemic. Luckily, Wilde had a few advantages: the zoo area around her was too poor a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to operaterun a fridge, freezer and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was dehydrator. She had a nocar -starter as well, when it comes to keeping a fully-grown lion in captivityand fuel. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to oneMost importantly, in she had shelter: this great little read with was not a heart-warming messageplan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Davey0711266204|title=Mad About MonkeysThe Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 45

|summary=Of all I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the many millions vast numbers of animals birds which visit our garden on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction book, daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I guess monkeys are one of 've established which species feed from the ideal places ground, which pop to start. They are, the feeders for a quick snatch of course, our distant cousins, with the ancestor we have some food and who settles in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million yearsfor a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. They It would have been wonderful if, as a large range across the planetchild, they have over 250 variant species, and they have I'd had access to a lot book such as ''The Secret Life of interesting facts and details regarding their social life, their diet, their diversity and their potential future Birds''. So – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Engelmangareth_steel|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen the need to review don't often begin my reviews with a book via video – warning but with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to me, when there are also countless ways for one ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to share opinions by old-fashioned written wordbe appropriate. That is, Stories of course, until now, a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and the phenomenon that Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at definitely not the Bookbag we can easily prove wecompanion volume you've read every word of been looking for. As a TV show the books by being eloquentauthor would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, informative as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and opinionated about what we examine, but even - after reading - I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have agree with him. He says that he's written it to finish off may leave inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some members of our audience wanting to see the resultsuncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley Robins1787332098|title=Oceans How to Love Animals in 30 Secondsa Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance

|genre=Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Oceans ''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 30 Seconds is the latest book 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 innovative next David Attenborough series from Ivy Press.'' I was going to argue. I mean, which aims to give an informative cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and entertaining overview I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of a given subject in biteit. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals -sized chunksand I consider myself an animal lover. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, with a concise description on If I had to choose between the left, covering all company of humans and the main pointscompany of animals, and a colourful illustration on I would probably choose the right hand pageanimals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, complete with extra snippets of informationeggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up, which further condenses the main idea of I suspected that making the chapter into a single sentencedecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barroux1786495902|title=Where's the Elephant?The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally''Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, haven't we? They appeal to children burst into tears and adults and everyone who has seen health-care professionals'jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'Wherekeeping going's : the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen next day she went to work to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's cover the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friendsbudget, who are hiding in next there. Elephant is probably was the easiest to spotEU referendum, but Snake the political party leadership contests and Parrot are in there too then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and with a little concentration you'll find themreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. When you turn That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the page you'll scan year when the trees again and discover their hiding placesbins went out more often than I did. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Goulson1782407480|title=A Buzz in the MeadowBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|summary=Back in 2003, biologist Dave Goulson bought I was a run-down farmhouse and 33 acres of meadow in little perturbed when I looked at the idyllic French countryside. His aim was to create blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a sanctuary for all sorts couple of wildlife, where creatures could go about their business without fear on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of disturbancebirds'' it said. Soon I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the meadows were abuzz with activitybook is about the ''family life'' of birds, with insect species thrivingwhich is rather different. Birds, mammals and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch If the book was confined to the sex life of countrysidebirds, including the mysterious 'snake and owlyou would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-eating beast' day, bring up their families and cope in the elusive 'wack-wack' birdwild...but if you want to find out more about them Not only that, you will 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 read the book for yourselflast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 1846045576|title=Walks In The Wild Adventures|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=When I was growing up, TV only had four channels and games consoles came in ''An instruction manual for the form of forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the rubber keyed ZX Spectrum. Despite these meagre offerings, we would still spend endless summer hours in the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015idea for this book, there are far more TV channels to watch and games come in high fidelity, that's basically what chance does nature have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would be surprised, as despite all it is – although right at the creature comforts of end the front room, children still want author says that it is not intended to play outsidebe a reference book, all they have to be - is inspiredbut an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne BarmanBuckingham_Dawn|title=CreaturepediaThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating=45

|summary=What a treat! I really did mean to just ''glance''at 'Creaturepedia'The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus' welcomes young readers to ' but the pull of the greatest show on earth, showcasing more than 600 sounds of a dozen different creatures within its pages. Rather than listing the animals in traditional alphabetical order, this book groups creatures according birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a variety of criteria, including colour, habits cold and outstanding physical characteristicsrather wet February morning. Of course, there is a handy index at I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the end birds and listening to keep the traditionalists happy tootheir song. There are a few unusual categories thrown in, such as mythical beats Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and extinct animals, it was just as well as endangered species that sadlygood the second time around. So, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamHoneyborne BlueII|title=The Little Book of Garden Bird SongBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take a You may 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 of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in remember when the details. You'll need the name of the bird in English and Latin and a description sticking of the bird in words which a child can understand but which wonnumber 't patronise an adult. Then you2'll need details after a film title was suggesting something of where prestige - that the bird is found, what first film had been so good it eatswas fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, where but it nests, how many eggs it lays, how has until recently almost been confined to the male and female adults differ and their size. Then cinema - you need barely got a 'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't, but 'The Little Book TV series worthy of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectly. And there's a bonusnumbered sequel, but I'll tell you about that and never in a momentthe world of non-fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Helen Macdonald|title=H is for Hawk|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at If someone has made a nature conferenceseries about, she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judge. S/he had remarked that Macdonaldsay, Alaska (and boy aren's was three books in one: t there are a memoir lot of grief after her father's unexpected deaththose these days) and wants to make another, a biography of Twhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. H. WhiteBut some nature programmes do have the prestige, the energy and an account of falconry experiments with Mabel the goshawkheft to demand follow-ups. Macdonald quipped that And after five years in the description made her book sound like washing powdermaking, but itthe BBC's accurate nonetheless, and explains why the book won the Samuel Johnson Prize (the first memoir to do so) and is shortlisted for the Costa Biography awardBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah StryckerTaylor_Owls|title=The Magic and Mystery of BirdsOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|summary=Sometimes it is easy to overlook the wonder all around usI feel like I am being watched. For exampleA huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, that scruffy looking starling sitting on your garden fence may look unassuming and commonplace, but type ''murmuration'' locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the search bar on Youtube and prepare to be mesmerised as a huge flock hardness of the birds perform a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which has an almost alien quality. If we take time to stop and look at our feathered friendsdeep-amber eyes, we will see that they are anything but ordinary. The bird world 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? ''The Magic and Mystery of Birds'' searches for soft grey feathers fan out into the answers to these questionssurrounding area, as well as many moreintricate, opening our eyes to detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the hidden world of birds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Backshall|title=Deadly Pole to Pole Diaries|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Dear Diarysame time, today I really woke up on the wrong side of owl is beckoning the bed. For most people that means waking up in a grumpy mood, but for me it literally means reader to turn the wrong side of the bed. I stepped straight into a pool full of viscous fish pages and then I climbed out, only to be chased by take a bearcloser look inside.. 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 way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Jackie MorrisSy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You probably haven't heard of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits Sy Montgomery and magic, you will work out what they Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas arebest friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. One They first bonded over their shared love of them is the totemanimals: shortly after meeting, if you likeSy's pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, of but Liz didn't seem to mind at all. ''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a hidden Himalayan valleyweasel. I knew we were soul mates, '' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and she Untamed'' is in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence resulting collaboration between the two friends as she sees fit they share personal anecdotes and protecting amazing stories about the Shangri-La type location. But she cannot protect it from all-comers, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successoranimal world. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Barr_Elephant|title=Life on Air10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=David AttenboroughCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I was one of 've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the generation who grew up when David Attenborough was a giant among presenters gentle giants of wildlife programmes on televisionAfrica and India, and anything with his name attached but it was a must-watchgood to find out more about them. At Perhaps the time, most surprising fact which I had no idea discovered was that he was also one of the pivotal characters they live in the development of broadcasting, having been controller of BBC2 and director of programming for BBC TV for several yearsherds headed by their ''grandmothers''. These days, he is probably best remembered for writing Female elephants and their calves stay together and presenting the nine ‘Life’ series, a comprehensive survey of all life on oldest female elephant is the planetone in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Grindrod Outskirts|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!Outskirts|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)John Grindrod|rating=54|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildings, big vehicles, big animals'' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. HoweverJohn Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the 1960s and '70s, as he puts it, ''I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – megagrew up on the last road in London. '' What beastsGrindrod explores the introduction of the green belt, both from now and from the pastvarious fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, are large enough he has somehow managed to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages wind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>heart.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Moss Wild|title=Four FieldsWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Tim DeeStephen Moss|rating=3.54

|summary=If asked to name, or even think of, four fields, Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the common man might well struggle, such last few decades; it is the chance of him living in a city. He might not think an unfortunate by-product of the local park as a fieldhuman population growth, and he may turn to the field of the cloth of gold if a historian, the field of dreams perhaps, or he might at least have something looking like a football pitch in his mind's eye. Tim Dee, not a nature scientist as such but so which in tune with the outside modern world he really doesn't seem to have stopped indoors but to write has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in the past decade, seems like the sort which we can start to bring back some of person who could hardly name four buildings, but would relish the chance to itemise his favourite fields. He is very doubtful any two in Britain are 's wildlife without compromising the same. Like snowflakes, then, they human way of life: we can bear a closer examination to show their full picture – and Dee picks on four, across the world and noted for events across the last few thousand years, to focus on. The result is a rich – if at times overco-rich – summation of the birdlife above the fields, and everything Dee knows and loves about themexist with nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>

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

|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 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'Lionss first book for children, '' is part of the wonderful The Big Bird Spot''Animal Lives, shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you'' seriesre going to be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, each focusing on a particular animal from in amongst the African savannahguillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. This time Oh, the king and you're looking for a pair of the beasts takes centre stage, binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to have to find them in a book that mixes stunning photography with plenty of fascinating facts and figuresevery picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Burkey_Ethics|title=Ethics for a Full World or, Can Animal Lives: Giraffes-Lovers Save the World?|author=Sally MorganTormod V Burkey|rating=4.5

|summary=The new Burkey argues that man''Animal Lives'' series s current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is no longer part of picture books aims to help young children become animal expertsthe 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 each book focusing on a different wild animalthem. The current series looks at animals of 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 African savannah and this time world to become fuller, for it is to be a world that seeks to provide for the turn needs of the noble giraffe every living thing, then it needs to take centre stagechange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ljung_Butterfly|title=Animal Lives: ElephantsBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Sally MorganKiki Ljung

|summary=The eyeAs 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-catching image on 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 cover most ubiquitous of this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers to pick wild animals, it up and start readingis also the least understood. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the camera lens whilst sharing a trunkful of lush green vegetationcreatures. There is just ''something'' Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about baby elephantsus, isn't there? Who could resist opening and our relationship with the book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>natural world.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Metisola_1st|title=Animal Lives: CheetahsMy First Animals|author=Sally MorganAino-Maija Metsola|rating=4.5

|summary=The first thing 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 struck me about this book was the excellent use you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of visualsregret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Most Here the parental practice of the photographs in the book are for making something up comes into play – it's a double page spreadbird type thing. The Books that show images are crisp and clear and provide a great close-up view of these beautiful cats. Using the photograph as a centrepieceitems, each two-page section examines colours or animals may seem a different aspect of cheetah behaviour. Subjects covered include growing uplittle dull to an adult, hunting, territory and cheetahs under threat. The sections have but to a brief introductory paragraph in large, bold print and then several smaller facts surround toddler learning about the main pictureworld, sometimes including smaller photographs to illustrate the main pointsthey are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=The Bee: A Natural History Amazing Animal Babies|author=Noah Wilson-RichChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=3.5

|summary=Bees have been making Many children love animals, but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a bit of dog or watch a media splash of late, due to heightened concern about their declining numbers and general welfare. Governments have been urged to do more to protect these important creatures, with puppy? A cat or a recent EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as kitten? A meerkat or a 'victory for bees'. There smaller meerkat? The answer is a no doubt brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that these prolific pollinators are a vital part of our ecosystemis not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and the human fascination with bees goes back to our ancient history. But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinatingwho better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ellie LaksPrasadamHall_Pairs|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal Pairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and children learn to hopeLorna Scobie|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=As ''Pairs in the Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a child Ellie Laks was abusedlift-the-flap book with a difference, but because not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference do you get to see what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and even 's underneath, you then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - and that they helped her to heal too. In must see if you can find a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they could do matching pair on the same for others and so page. But beware! You cannot just use the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place process of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapyelimination 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>0099584883</amazonuk>