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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and 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 - Remove as with so many students -->been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham1839948493|title=The Little Book A World of Woodland Bird SongsDogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (donIn the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I't worry about it being m a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old sucker for a board book once they see it)dogs. In nearly eight decades, add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - I've never met one on each double-page spread - I didn't trust and then fill in the details. YouI'll need the name ve loved most of them. I wish I felt the bird in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultsame about human beings. Then you'll need details of where the bird is found So, what it eatsany book about dogs, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male I'm going to sit down and female adults differ and their sizedevour. Then you need a I'Did you know?' fact m going to go back and this needs to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know eitherread it properly. Does And so it sound simple? Well it isnwas with 't, but 'The Little Book A World of Woodland Bird SongsDogs' does it perfectly', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. And there Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a bonus, but I'll tell you lot about that in a momentdogs since then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth BinneyLev Parikian |title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Light Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5

|summary=I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring itIf you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, so the chance or someone who pretends to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we write, then you know that she writes well and interestinglythere are unnumbered types of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's some to learn from in a hardback random way, some for focussed research, and beautifully presented but its some because they are, broadly speaking, the size kind of book that thing you think you slip into a pocket or handbagmight like to write. Would it be rather superficial?Or, indeed, are actually trying to write.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1398508632|title=The HuntWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45|genre=Animals and Wildlife Lifestyle|summary=My mother has It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on 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 death and violencebest time to start, or how it's all about in a world where the capture normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and killing a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of one animal by anotherterrains. She's long had electricity which allowed her to run a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingfridge, freezer and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on dehydrator. She had a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV contentcar - and fuel. I doubt Most importantly, she will be tuning in had shelter: this was not a plan 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 'live'' wild just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourableto live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Cocker0711266204|title=Claxton: Notes From a Small Planet The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, I have recently discovered a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remote, great pleasure: I sit and yet only a few miles from Norwich. In a series of writings spanning watch the course vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the villageground, and his relationship which pop to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscape. All written with feeders for a deep knowledge quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful eye for detailif, as a child, Cocker truly gets I'd had access to the heart a book such as ''The Secret Life of the local wildlife and the local communityBirds''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadliergareth_steel|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 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>}}{{newreviewNever Work With Animals|author=David Neiwert|title=Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsGareth Steel|rating=3.54

|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts in the first pages of his all-encompassing book about killer whalesit seems to be appropriate. For him, encountering orcas, one Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the worldcompanion volume you's largest mammals, has ve been both humbling and inspiringlooking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, reminding him as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it the book is wrong not suitable for us to exploit other creatures for our own benefityounger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. After moving to Seattle, He says that he tried for three years 's written it to see the whalesinform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and finally gave up; distressing issues but it was only doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when he began spending time in the places where the orcas live, simply for the pleasure of it, that he started seeing them all the timeyou would be best choosing between reading and eating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb Braun1787332098|title=The Tiger Prowls: How to Love Animals in a popHuman-up book of wild animalsShaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=It's a hardback book with a striking cover 'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and when you open itgroups: cows, dogs, foxes, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductionselephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: as you lift the covercows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, the tiger and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the title appears:next David Attenborough series.''

I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn''The tiger prowlst consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, stalking through I would probably choose the jungleanimals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices.''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on I suspected that making the forest floordecision would not be comfortable.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Franceschelli1786495902|title= DinoblockThe Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 45|genre= For SharingLifestyle|summary= As befits Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a book about dinosaursfriend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'Dinoblockkeeping going' is suitably chunky: the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial in a 'pick me up One night she had to be sedated and read returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me' kind of way. Inside to this board book, twenty plus beasts are on parade: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules Nilsson1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Hounds Family Life of FalsterboBirds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''In between the beach hutsBird Love''<br>on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''Where exploring the white sands meet sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the seasbook,but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''<br>family life''The heather meets of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wild. Not only that, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance first page to the breezelast.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Backshall1846045576|title=Favourite Deadly FactsWalks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo must feel like. I ''An instruction manual 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 the forest'' is nothing quite like a how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book about how long, how short or how wide something and that's basically what it is to put a certain type of child in clover. This type of book should come with a warning sticker on – although right at the end the front as any nearby adult author says that it is going not intended to get their ear talked off, especially if it is be a bumper fact reference book, but an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keith Partridge|title=The Adventure Game: 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 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|authorisbn= Simon BarnesBuckingham_Dawn|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 Little Book 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>}}{{newreviewDawn Chorus|author=Richard Girling|title=The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small Caz Buckingham and Why They MatterAndrea Pinnington|rating=3.5

|summary=At age 15, on What a camping trip to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphany. It was the first time that he had felt himself to be a part of nature, that the environment treat! I really mattered did mean to him. As a big picture person, however, this had never translated into an affinity for individual species, even though he became a longstanding environmental writer for the just ''glance'' at ''Sunday TimesThe Little Book of the Dawn Chorus''. That is, until he came across but the pull of the sounds of a mysterious listing for the Somali golden mole in dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a mammal encyclopaediacold and rather wet February morning. This creature has never been seen in I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the wild, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964birds and listening to their song. For some reason, the golden mole captured Girling's imagination, becoming a symbol of rarity Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and it was just as good the fragility of mammals' existencesecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara StarbuckHoneyborne BlueII|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella Blue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and SimbaMark Brownlow

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as You may well remember when the sticking of a youngster as number '2' after a model for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coast, but film title was suggesting something of prestige - that probably happened before she ended up in a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye and losing the sight in the other. Simba first film had been so good it was not supposed fully justified to be shaking his magnificent maned figure about a circus cage in southern Francehave something more. But she wasThat has hardly been proven correct, and he was, and things weren't right. Luckily, the zoo was too poor but it has until recently almost been confined to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was cinema - you barely got a no-starter as well, when it comes to keeping TV series worthy of a fully-grown lion in captivity. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to onenumbered sequel, and never in this great little read with a heart-warming message.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Owen Davey|title=Mad About Monkeys|rating= 4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Of all the many millions world 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 If someone has made a large range across the planetnature series about, they have over 250 variant speciessay, Alaska (and they have boy aren't there are a lot of interesting facts those these days) and details regarding their social lifewants to make another, their diet, their diversity and their potential future – all of which why she just makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may beanother - nothing would justify the numeral.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Engelman|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddyBut some nature programmes do have the prestige, but I have never seen the need to review a book via video – with Youtube energy 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 heft to share opinions by olddemand follow-fashioned written wordups. That isAnd after five years in the making, of course, until now, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove weBBC've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding s Blue Planet series has delivered a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the resultssecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsTaylor_Owls|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy PressI feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, which aims to give an informative and entertaining overview of a given subject in bite-sized chunkslocking me into their gaze. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, In contrast with a concise description on the left, covering all hardness of the main pointsdeep-amber eyes, and a colourful illustration on soft grey feathers fan out into the right hand pagesurrounding area, intricate, complete with extra snippets of informationdetailed and beautiful. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum upAn enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, which further condenses the main idea of owl is beckoning the reader to turn the chapter into pages and take a single sentencecloser look inside...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=BarrouxMontgomery Tamed|title=Where's Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Elephant?Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=WeSy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be 've all had great fun with books such as 'New York Times''Wherebest-selling authors. They first bonded over their shared love of animals: shortly after meeting, Sy's Wally''pet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, havenbut Liz didn't we? They appeal seem to children and adults and everyone who has seen mind at all. ''WhereShe REALLY didn's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with t mind being bitten by a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in thereweasel. Elephant is probably the easiest to spotI knew we were soul mates, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding placesrecalls Sy. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boringTamed and Untamed'' if it goes on like thisis the resulting collaboration between the two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the animal world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave GoulsonBarr_Elephant|title=A Buzz in the Meadow10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|rating=4.5

|summary=Back in 2003, biologist Dave Goulson bought a run-down farmhouse and 33 acres of meadow in the idyllic French countryside. His aim was Ten reasons to create a sanctuary for all sorts of wildlifelove an elephant, where creatures could go about their business without fear of disturbance. Sooneh? Well, the meadows were abuzz with activitypersonally, with insect species thriving. BirdsI've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, mammals the gentle giants of Africa and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch of countrysideIndia, including but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the mysterious most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their 'snake and owl-eating beast' and the elusive grandmothers'wack-wack' bird...but if you want Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find out more food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about them, you will have to read the book for yourselfpeople too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom Grindrod Outskirts|title=Wild AdventuresOutskirts|author=John Grindrod

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When I was growing up, TV only had four channels and games consoles came in '' Outskirts'' is an interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the form green belt of the rubber keyed ZX Spectrumcountryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. Despite these meagre offerings, we would still spend endless summer hours John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015, there are far more TV channels to watch 1960s and games come in high fidelity'70s, what chance does nature have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would be surprisedas he puts it, as despite all ''I grew up on the last road in London.'' Grindrod explores the creature comforts introduction of the front roomgreen belt, children still want to play outsideand the various fights and developments it has gone through over the subsequent decades, all they as environmental and political arguments have affected planning decisions. Within this topic, he has somehow managed to be - is inspiredwind around his personal memories of childhood, producing a memoir with a lot of heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne BarmanMoss Wild|title=CreaturepediaWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss

|summary=''Creaturepedia'' welcomes young readers to Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the greatest show on earthlast few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth, showcasing more than 600 different creatures within its pageswhich in the modern world has increased significantly. Rather than listing the animals in traditional alphabetical order, Through this book groups creatures according Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to a variety bring back some of criteria, including colour, habits and outstanding physical characteristics. Of course, there is a handy index at Britain's wildlife without compromising the end to keep the traditionalists happy toohuman way of life: we can co-exist with nature. There are a few unusual categories thrown in, such as mythical beats and extinct animals, as well as endangered species that sadly, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamSewell Spot|title=The Little Book of Garden Big Bird SongSpot|author=Matt Sewell|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Take Recently I stood on a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a board book - no very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to 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 the details. Youpuffins who'll need d arrived on the name of the bird cliffs in English and Latin and a description of the bird in words which a child can understand but which won't patronise an adultlast few days. Then you'll need details of where the bird is Finally, I foundone, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how after visually sorting through all the other birds on the male precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and female adults differ and their sizevery rewarding. Then you need a The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell'Did you know?' fact and this needs to be something which will interest s first book for children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isn't'The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you'The re going to be looking for twenty-three Little Book of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectlyAuks, in amongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. And thereOh, and you's re looking for a bonus, but Ipair of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you'll tell you about that re going to have to find them in a momentevery picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen MacdonaldBurkey_Ethics|title=H is Ethics for Hawk|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=When I saw Helen Macdonald speak at a nature conference, she recounted a conversation with a Samuel Johnson Prize judge. S/he had remarked that Macdonald's was three books in one: a memoir of grief after her father's unexpected death, a biography of T. H. WhiteFull World or, and an account of falconry experiments with Mabel the goshawk. Macdonald quipped that Can Animal-Lovers Save the description made her book sound like washing powder, but it'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 award.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWorld?|author=Noah Strycker|title=The Magic and Mystery of BirdsTormod V Burkey|rating=54

|summary=Sometimes it Burkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. He is easy to overlook no longer part of the wonder all around usecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. For exampleHe is himself distanced even further by advancement in technologies, that scruffy looking starling sitting on your garden fence may look unassuming and commonplaceindustry, but type ''murmuration'' into the search bar on Youtube money and prepare to be mesmerised as a huge flock of all the birds perform a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which pollution that comes with them. The natural world, Burkey argues, no longer exists for man because he has an almost alien qualityaltered it by such things. If we take time to stop and look at our feathered friendsIndeed, global warming has caused climate change, which, if it continues, we will see that they are anything but ordinarymake the world unrecognisable. The bird For the world to become fuller, for it to be a world is full of unsolved mysteries that humans are only now beginning seeks 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 provide for the answers to these questionsneeds of every living thing, as well as many more, opening our eyes then it needs to the hidden world of birdschange.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallLjung_Butterfly|title=Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung

|summary=Dear Diary, today I really woke up on love butterflies: they're one of the wrong side delights of the bed. For most people that means waking my garden and it's always a pleasure when there are children there and they see a butterfly close up in a grumpy mood, but possibly for me the first time, as it literally means rests on a flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the wrong side opportunity to learn about butterflies and also to build a 3D model of our own. The book is primarily aimed at the bed. five to eight-year-old age group, but I have to confess that I stepped straight into had a pool full great deal of viscous fish and then fun building my own painted lady. I climbed out, only to be chased by learned quite a bear. I am either eating bit 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|titleisbn=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Jones_Foxes|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.5|genretitle=Confident Readers|summary=You probably haven't heard 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 Foxes Unearthed: A Story of them is the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valley, Love and she is Loathing in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit and protecting 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 successor. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Life on AirModern Britain|author=David AttenboroughLucy Jones|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=I was one of the generation who grew up when David Attenborough was a giant among presenters of wildlife programmes on television, and anything with his name attached was a must-watch. At the time, I had no idea that he was also one of the pivotal characters in the development of broadcasting, having been controller of BBC2 and director of programming for BBC TV for several years. These days, he is probably best remembered for writing and presenting the nine ‘Life’ series, a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908524</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildings, big vehicles, big animals. However, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beasts, both from now and from the past, are large enough to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Four Fields|author=Tim Dee|rating=3.5

|summary=If asked to name, or even think As one of, four fieldsthe largest predators left in Britain, the common man might well struggle, such fox is the chance captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of him living bright-eyed wildness in a cityour towns. He might not think of the local park 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 fieldbeautiful animal, and he may turn to the field of the cloth of gold if a historiancunning rogue, the field of dreams perhaps, or he might at least have something looking like a football pitch in his mind's eyevicious pest and a worthy foe. Tim Dee, not a nature scientist As well as such but so in tune with the outside world he really doesn't seem to have stopped indoors but to write this book in the past decade, seems like being the sort most ubiquitous of person who could hardly name four buildingswild animals, but would relish it is also the chance to itemise his favourite fieldsleast understood. He is very doubtful any two in Britain are Here Lucy Jones investigates the same. Like snowflakestruth about foxes – delving into fact, thenfiction, they can bear a closer examination to show their full picture – folklore and Dee picks on four, across her own history with the world and noted for events across creatures. Discussing the last few thousand yearsdebate on foxes, to focus on. The result is a rich – if at times over-rich – summation of the birdlife above the fieldsJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and everything Dee knows and loves about themour relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>

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

|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''What'Lionss That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is part not too familiar. Here the parental practice of the wonderful making something up comes into play – it''Animal Lives'' seriess a bird type thing. Books that show images of items, each focusing on colours or animals may seem a particular animal from the African savannah. This timelittle dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the king of the beasts takes centre stageworld, in they are a book who's who of what's that mixes stunning photography with plenty of fascinating facts and figures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Amazing Animal Lives: GiraffesBabies|author=Sally MorganChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=43.5

|summary=The new ''Animal Lives'' series of picture books aims to help young Many children become animal expertslove animals, with each book focusing on but they love baby animals even more. Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a different wild animal. smaller meerkat? The current series looks at animals of the African savannah and this time it answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the turn wide-eyed stumbling of the noble giraffe youth that is not dissimilar to take centre stagetheir own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PrasadamHall_Pairs|title=Animal Lives: ElephantsPairs in the Garden|author=Sally MorganSmriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie|rating=4.5

|summary=The eye-catching image on the cover of this glossy picture book certainly encourages young readers to pick it up and start reading. Two cute baby elephants gaze confidently into the camera lens whilst sharing a trunkful of lush green vegetation. There is just ''somethingPairs in the Garden'' about baby elephants, isn't there? Who could resist opening the is a fun book for a closer look?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Animal Lives: Cheetahs|author=Sally Morgan|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=The first thing that struck me about this book was the excellent use of visuals. Most of the photographs in the book are game hybrid for a double page spreadlittle fingers into creepy crawlies. The images are crisp and clear and provide It's a great closelift-up view of these beautiful cats. Using the photograph as a centrepiece, each two-page section examines flap book with a different aspect of cheetah behaviour. Subjects covered include growing updifference, huntingbecause not only do you get to see what's underneath, territory and cheetahs under threatyou then must see if you can find a matching pair on the same page. The sections have a brief introductory paragraph in large, bold print and then several smaller facts surround But beware! You cannot just use the main pictureprocess of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, sometimes including smaller photographs but only 3 pairs to illustrate the main pointsfind. One poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>