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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Maria Ana Peixe DiasSion 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, Ines Teixeira do Rosarioparticularly 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, Bernardo P Carvalho he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. and Lucy Greaves (translator)If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1839948493|title=Outside: A Guide to Discovering NatureWorld of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=45

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm on a mission: I want children - adults too - to spend a lot more time outsidesucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I want them to have the benefits of fresh air, increasing their levels of vitamin D 've never met one I didn't trust and the knowledge I've loved most of what nature can offer them. I'd like wish I felt the televisionsame about human beings. So, computersany book about dogs, mobile phones, video games I'm going to sit down and even books devour. Then I'm going to be laid aside go back and attention given to what is available for freeread it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', but which with ninety- if we don't care for it six pages devoted entirely to my four- might not always be therelegged friends. Fortunately Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the authors accidental owner of an American Dingo - she''Outside: A Guide s learned quite a lot about dogs since then.}}{{Frontpage|author=Lev Parikian |title=Light Rains Sometimes Fall |rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary= If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to discovering Nature'' have learn from in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the same ideaskind of thing you think you might like to write. Or, indeed, are actually trying to write.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807690</amazonuk>1783966386

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington1398508632|title=The Nature Explorer's ScrapbookWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary=''An activity book, It had been on the cards for a while but not as you know it'' is what it says on was the back cover week- and I have to agreelong consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Here at Bookbag we tend to avoid 'activity books' as they usually have soft coversThe end of November, lots of stickers and they're the sort of thing you pick up at the supermarket checkout particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the hope that it will buy you an hour or two's peace best time to start, in a world where the school holidaysnormal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. ''The Nature Explorer's Handbook'' is Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a different beast altogethervariety of terrains. It's part album in She had electricity which you're going allowed her to collect and store your own findsrun a fridge, part explanation of the best practices of how you should go about this freezer and part nature guidedehydrator. It's She had a substantial hardback book with an elastic band to keep it shut car - as it's really going to get quite bulky when your collection growsand fuel. Production values for the book are high - Most importantly, she had shelter: this really is something which will be treasured for yearswas not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190848926X</amazonuk>

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

|summary=Take I have recently discovered a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to say that they’re a bit too old for a board book once they see it), add exquisite pictures great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of a dozen birds - one which visit our garden on each double-page spread - and then fill in the detailsa daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. You I'll need ve established which species feed from the name of ground, which pop to the bird in English and Latin and feeders for a description quick snatch of the bird some food and who settles in words which for a child can understand good munch but which won't patronise an adultI wish I was more knowledgeable. Then you'll need details of where the bird is found It would have been wonderful if, what it eatsas a child, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a I'Did you know?' fact and this needs d had access to be something which will interest children, but which adults might not know either. Does it sound simple? Well it isna book such as 't, but 'The Little Book Secret Life of Woodland Bird Songs' does it perfectly. And thereBirds's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489286</amazonuk> So – what is it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth Binneygareth_steel|title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel

|summary=I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it, so the chance seems to read Ruth Binneybe appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'The English Countryside'is definitely not the companion volume you' was too good to be missedve been looking for. WeAs a TV show the author would argue that 've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag 'All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers and we know - after reading - I agree with him. He says that she writes well he's written it to inform and interestinglyprovoke thought, but just one thing was worrying me about this bookparticularly amongst aspiring vets. It's a hardback deals with some uncomfortable and beautifully presented distressing issues but its the size of book that it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you slip into a pocket or handbagwould be best choosing between reading and eating. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1787332098|title=The HuntHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45|genre=Animals Politics and Wildlife Society|summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all 'When we do think about the capture animals, we break them down into species and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a pointgroups: cows, dogs, foxes, but [[Of Orcas elephants and Menso on. And we assign them places in society: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothingcows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and lions sleeping off millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the heat without munching on a passing wildebeestnext David Attenborough series.''s leg really don I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't cut 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 when it comes . Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to providing popular TV contentanimals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I doubt she will be tuning in had to choose between the company of humans and the series company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book accompanies: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, even if eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the volume very quickly testifies that it's decision would not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourablecomfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Cocker1786495902|title=ClaxtonThe Natural Health Service: Notes From a Small Planet How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeLifestyle|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to Claxton, share. She says that a small village in Norfolk that manages to be wonderfully remotefriend who does know, burst into tears and yet only a few miles from Norwichhealth-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. In a series of writings spanning Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the course of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in next day she went to work to cover the villagebudget, and his relationship to next there was the living things around himEU referendum, as well as the surrounding landscapepolitical party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. All written with a deep knowledge One night she had to be sedated and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the heart of the local wildlife and year when the local communitybins went out more often than I did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie Sadlier1782407480|title=HareBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: 'Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts in exploring the first pages sex life of his all-encompassing birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about killer whales. For him, encountering orcas, one of the world's largest mammals'family life'' of birds, has been both humbling and inspiring, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it which is wrong for us to exploit other creatures for our own benefitrather different. After moving If the book was confined to Seattlethe sex life of birds, he tried for three years you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to see the whales-day, bring up their families and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time cope in the places where the orcas livewild. Not only that, simply for you have missed the pleasure treat of it, that he started seeing them all so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the timelast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb Braun1846045576|title=Walks In The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animalsWild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=It''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's a hardback publisher described the idea for this book with a striking cover , and when you open that's basically what it, don't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: as you lift is – although right at the cover, end the tiger of the title appears: ''The tiger prowlsauthor says that it is not intended to be a reference book, stalking through the jungle.''<br>''Paw after heavy paw crunches on the forest floorbut an appetiser.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 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 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|authorisbn= Keith PartridgeBuckingham_Dawn|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 Little Book 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>}}{{newreviewDawn Chorus|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 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 film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the Black Sea Coastfirst film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but that probably happened before she ended up in it has until recently almost been confined to the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a poor Romanian zoonumbered sequel, blind in one eye and losing the sight never in the otherworld of non-fiction. Simba was not supposed to be shaking his magnificent maned figure If someone has made a nature series about a circus cage in southern France. But she was, and he wassay, Alaska (and things werenboy aren't rightthere are a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Luckily, But some nature programmes do have the zoo was too poor to operateprestige, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, energy and fortunately someone realised the circus was a no-starter as well, when it comes heft to keeping a fullydemand follow-grown lion ups. And after five years in captivity. In alternating chapters the two catsmaking, the BBC' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read with s Blue Planet series has delivered a heart-warming messagesecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen DaveyTaylor_Owls|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 Owls: A Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen the need 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 me, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, 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 we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the results.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEvery Species|author=Jen Green and Wesley Robins|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsMarianne 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|isbn=Jones_Foxes|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Jackie MorrisLucy Jones|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You probably haven't heard As one of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly the largest predators left in your headBritain, the fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in connection with spirits and magicour towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, you will work out what they are. One of them is the totemhas provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, if you likeperceived variously as a beautiful animal, of a hidden Himalayan valleycunning rogue, a vicious pest and she a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is in also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the form of a snow leopardtruth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, singing existence as she sees fit folklore and protecting her own history with the Shangri-La type locationcreatures. But she cannot protect it from all-comersDiscussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, least of all when she's trying to sing to find a successorand our relationship with the natural world. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Metisola_1st|title=Life on AirMy First Animals|author=David AttenboroughAino-Maija Metsola|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I was one of the generation who grew up when David Attenborough was Get used to two simple words if you have a giant among presenters of wildlife programmes on televisionchild, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and anything with his name attached was a must-watchover again. At the timeIf you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, I had no idea that he was also one of the pivotal characters in the development of broadcastinghat, having been controller of BBC2 and director my sense of programming for BBC TV for several yearsregret. These days, he Sometimes they will point at something that is probably best remembered for writing and presenting not too familiar. Here the nine ‘Life’ series, parental practice of making something up comes into play – it's a comprehensive survey of all life on the planetbird type thing.|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 Books that were big; big buildings, big vehiclesshow images of items, big colours or animals. Howevermay seem a little dull to an adult, I have recently learnt that there is but to a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beasts, both from now and from toddler learning about the pastworld, they are large enough to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages a who's who of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>what's that.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Four FieldsAmazing Animal Babies|author=Tim DeeChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft

|summary=If asked to nameMany children love animals, or but they love baby animals even think of, four fields, the common man might well struggle, such is the chance of him living in more. Would you rather watch a city. He might not think of the local park as dog or watch a field, and he may turn to the field of the cloth of gold if puppy? A cat or a historian, the field of dreams perhaps, kitten? A meerkat or he might at least have something looking like a football pitch in his mind's eye. Tim Dee, not smaller meerkat? The answer is a nature scientist as such but so in tune with the outside world he really doesn't seem no brainer to have stopped indoors but to write this book in most children who enjoy the past decade, seems like the sort wide-eyed stumbling of person who could hardly name four buildings, but would relish the chance to itemise his favourite fields. He youth that is very doubtful any two in Britain are the same. Like snowflakes, then, they can bear a closer examination not dissimilar to show their full picture – and Dee picks on four, across the world and noted for events across the last few thousand yearsown. However, someone needs to focus on. The result is a rich – if at times over-rich – summation of give them the birdlife above the fields, facts about baby animals and everything Dee knows and loves about them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

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

|summary=''LionsPairs in the Garden'' is part of a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. It's a lift-the wonderful ''Animal Lives'-flap book with a difference, because not only do you get to see what' seriess underneath, each focusing you then must see if you can find a matching pair on a particular animal from the African savannahsame page. This time, But beware! You cannot just use the king process of the beasts takes centre stageelimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, in a book that mixes stunning photography but only 3 pairs to find. One poor creature is all alone with plenty of fascinating facts and figuresno partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>