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Ann Lazim, Books for Keeps Naturalist Dara McAnulty helps children explore local habitats, identifying animals and plants.

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The book's unique selling point is its sound bar, which provides instant access to the vocalisations of ten commonly heard birds in spring. Like all the best children’s illustrated non-fiction, there is enough here to interest and surprise grown-ups too, but never at the expense of concision or clarity. The book covers animals, habitats, ocean geography and ecological concepts such as food webs, making it a genuinely educational resource. Pablo tries to scare a little girl into dropping her ice cream, but instead of being scared she grabs Pablo to feed to her pet snake! The book covers all the basics of getting into wildlife, from fieldcraft and photography tips to getting connected with like-minded people.Here, she digitally colours her own work and the results are tight, technical, but brilliantly observed and extraordinarily textured, with styles borrowed from aboriginal art and beyond. Since then Peter has written and illustrated many books for children and earned numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.

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A must for every child's bookshelf, and the thick card pages, chunky cased golden cover and sturdy flaps make it perfect for small hands. On a practical note, having learned about the threats to bats and their habitats, we’re now planning on planting some bat-friendly plants to see if we can lure any flying mammals into the garden this summer. Spectacular woodcut illustrations accompany this noisy, fun book about a grumpy panda (a lot of these books have animals being grumps, which I’m just realizing now) and his animal neighbors in the zoo. Fresh from the success of his rightly lauded and multi award-winning book Diary of a Young Naturalist (reviewed further down in this article), teenage conservationist Dara McAnulty has written an alluring family guide to the wonders of nature.Following in the footsteps of a girl and her mother as they explore the world after dark, we are introduced to a wide range of creatures that do just that. There’s a lyrical quality to author- illustrator Julia Kuo’s writing, but she’s generous with the biological details too, whether it’s explaining how dragonfish shine a red light that enables them to find their prey in the dark ocean, or how piddock clams light up the hands and mouths of those who eat them. Aziza is excitedly packing her suitcase ready to go on holiday when she finds sand and seashells from the fairy door all over her room! Her award- winning, best-selling Beetle Boy trilogy turned into an international success story, wowing aged-7 readers with stories starring curios Coleoptera. And while Wild Child does appeal to younger readers – my seven-year-old says it’s brilliant – it also serves as a reminder to us grown-up children of those early explorations – adventures when we delved deep into the undergrowth to examine dandelions and ladybirds.