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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Neiwert1529395224|title=Of Orcas and MenLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion 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 activity, with insect species thriving. Birds, mammals and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch of countryside, including book is about the mysterious 'snake and owl-eating beast' and the elusive family life'wack-wack' birdof birds, which is rather different...but if you want If the book was confined to find out more about themthe sex life of birds, you will have would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to read the book for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom |title=Wild Adventures|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When I was growing day, bring up, TV only had four channels their families and games consoles came cope in the form of the rubber keyed ZX Spectrumwild. Despite these meagre offerings Not only that, we would still spend endless summer hours in you have missed the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outside. In 2015, there are far more TV channels to watch and games come in high fidelity, what chance does nature have against ‘Call treat of Duty’? You would be surprised, as despite all the creature comforts so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the front room, children still want first page to play outside, all they have to be - is inspiredthe last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne Barman1846045576|title=CreaturepediaWalks In The Wild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife|summary=''CreaturepediaAn instruction manual for the forest''is how Wohlleben' welcomes young readers to the greatest show on earth, showcasing more than 600 different creatures within its pages. Rather than listing s publisher described the animals in traditional alphabetical order, idea for this book groups creatures according to a variety of criteria, including colour, habits and outstanding physical characteristics. Of course, there that's basically what it is a handy index – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to keep the traditionalists happy too. There are be a few unusual categories thrown inreference book, such as mythical beats and extinct animals, as well as endangered species that sadly, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>but an appetiser.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamBuckingham_Dawn|title=The Little Book of Garden Bird Song|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Take a well-put-together board book (don't worry about it being a board book - no one is going to suggest that they're a bit too old for that), add exquisite pictures of a dozen birds - one on each double-page spread - and then fill in the details. You'll need the name of 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 adult. Then you'll need details of where the bird is found, what it eats, where it nests, how many eggs it lays, how the male and female adults differ and their size. Then you need a 'Did you know?' 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 of Garden Bird Song' does it perfectly. And there's a bonus, but I'll tell you about that in a moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908489251</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDawn Chorus|author=Helen Macdonald|title=H is 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. White, Caz Buckingham and an account of falconry experiments with Mabel the goshawk. Macdonald quipped that 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>}}{{newreview|author=Noah Strycker|title=The Magic and Mystery of BirdsAndrea Pinnington

|summary=Sometimes it is easy What a treat! I really did mean to overlook the wonder all around us. For example, that scruffy looking starling sitting on your garden fence may look unassuming and commonplace, but type just ''glance''murmurationat '' into The Little Book of the search bar on Youtube and prepare to be mesmerised as a huge flock Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of the sounds of a dozen different birds perform singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which has cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an almost alien quality. If we take time to stop indulgent hour or so reading all about the birds and look at our feathered friends, we will see that they are anything but ordinary. The bird world is full of unsolved mysteries that humans are only now beginning listening 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 song. Then - just because I could - I went back and did it all again and Mystery of Birds'' searches for the answers to these questions, it was just as well as many more, opening our eyes to good the hidden world of birdssecond time around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallHoneyborne BlueII|title=Deadly Pole to Pole DiariesBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Dear Diary, today I really woke up on You may well remember when the wrong side sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the bedfirst film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. For most people that means waking up in a grumpy moodThat has hardly been proven correct, but for me it literally means has until recently almost been confined to the wrong side cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in the bedworld of non-fiction. I stepped straight into If someone has made a pool full of viscous fish and then I climbed outnature series about, say, only to be chased by a bear. I am either eating too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Snow Leopard Alaska (Mini Edition)|author=Jackie Morris|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=You probably havenand boy aren't heard there are a lot of Mergichans – although if you pronounce it correctly in your head, in connection with spirits those these days) and magicwants to make another, you will work out what they arewhy she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. One of them is But some nature programmes do have the totem, if you like, of a hidden Himalayan valleyprestige, and she is in the form of a snow leopard, singing existence as she sees fit energy and protecting the Shangriheft to demand follow-La type locationups. But she cannot protect it from all-comersAnd after five years in the making, least of all when shethe BBC's trying to sing to find Blue Planet series has delivered a successorsecond helping. Mergichans do not have it all their own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Life on Air|authorisbn=David Attenborough|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>}}{{newreviewTaylor_Owls|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)Marianne Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L WilliamsonJones_Foxes|title=HummingbirdsFoxes Unearthed: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesStory of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|author=Lucy Jones|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I've always As 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-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicateso ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, colourfula cunning rogue, beautifully a vicious pest and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowersa worthy foe. Perhaps As well as being the most ubiquitous of all for me wild animals, it's their acrobatic flight - is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the ability to hover truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hoursher own history with the creatures. Discussing the debate on foxes, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so much. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw itJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, for a number of reasonsand our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marianne Taylor and Andrew PerrisMetisola_1st|title=Beautiful Owls: Portraits of Arresting Species from Around the WorldMy First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola

|genre=PetsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Owls are strange birds: because they're crepuscular and twilight isnGet used to two simple words if you have a child, 't the best time for 'What'seeings That?'' birds with any clarity You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they tend to be the stuff of legend and we don't are pointing at something that you actually know as much about them as we might. On the other hand– chair, they're the most recognisable of birdshat, perhaps because my sense of the forward-facing eyes and would look almost human if it was regret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not for that uncanny ability to swivel too familiar. Here the neck to almost 360°. Marianne Taylor has gone some way towards correcting this lack parental practice of knowledge in ''Beautiful Owls'making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. She gives us Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an overview of the speciesadult, traces them back but to a toddler learning about the earliest civilisations and shows their evolutionworld, they are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Packham_Babies|title=Amazing Animal Babies|author=Jill HucklesbyChris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Many children love animals, 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 smaller meerkat? The answer is a no brainer to most children who enjoy the wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to their own. However, someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=PrasadamHall_Pairs|title=Little Lost Hedgehog (RSPCA Fiction)Pairs in the Garden|author=Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Grace Fallon was out ''Pairs in her garden one evening, doing what she did every night - making certain that her pet rabbits were fed, watered and safethe Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into creepy crawlies. When she saw It's a movement in lift-the flower bed she went to investigate and found a baby hedgehog - or flap book with a hoglet as theydifference, because not only do you get to see what're correctly called. Wisely she didn't attempt to touch the animal but told her parents and s underneath, you then kept watch from inside must see if you can find a matching pair on the housesame page. When But beware! You cannot just use the hoglet reappeared and looked rather distressed her mother rang the RSPCA and was told process of elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only 3 pairs to give it some food - dog food and crushed dog biscuits (NEVER milk as it can make any hog very sick)find. Later someone from the RSPCA came round to collect the hoglet and take it to their centre for careOne poor creature is all alone with no partner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>