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[[Category:Animals and Wildlife|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Townsend1529395224|title= Letting the Cat Out Thereof the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= Chris Townsend has been 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'Out There'' as s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a long distance walker vet and was convinced this was the job for almost four decadeshim. For most of that time Before long, he has been equally ''out there'was at Liverpool University. It hadn' t - as a champion of the outdoors. He is the author of with so many books, many accounts of students - been his treks, and his web site and blogs receive many thousands of visitsdream since he was a child. Here, for the first time If anything, he gathers his thoughts and experience into a single volume, singing 'd wanted to be a hymn of praise for the Wild, and stirring defence against human predationprofessional footballer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Ines Teixeira do Rosario, Bernardo P Carvalho and Lucy Greaves (translator)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 don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the countryside and spend as much time author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the weather will allow exploring book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. He says that he's written it to inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but itdoesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so the chance to read Ruth Binneyon. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''s somewhere,''The English Countrysidehopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''  I was too good going to be missedargue. WeI mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn've met Ruth [[t 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, I would probably choose the animals. 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. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Allotment Experience by Ruth BinneyNatural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|before]] summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at Bookbag the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and we know that then it was party conference season. One night she writes well had to be sedated and interestingly, but just one thing returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was worrying what brought me about to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1782407480|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love''s on a hardback and beautifully presented couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the book, but its a closer examination suggested that the size book is about the ''family life'' 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 slip into have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a pocket or handbagwide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey1846045576|title=Walks In The HuntWild|author=Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

|genre=Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on ''An instruction manual for the death and violence, or forest'' is how itWohlleben's all about publisher described the capture and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a pointidea for this book, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeestthat's leg really don't cut basically what it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to is – although right at the series this book accompanies, even if end the volume very quickly testifies author says that it's is not all about the capture – often the chase can intended to be just as thrillinga reference book, and the result for the intended victim is favourablebut an appetiser.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark CockerBuckingham_Dawn|title=Claxton: Notes From a Small Planet The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus|author=Caz Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary= In 2001, author Mark Cocker moved to Claxton, What a small village in Norfolk that manages treat! I really did mean to be wonderfully remote, and yet only a few miles from Norwich. In a series just ''glance'' at ''The Little Book of the Dawn Chorus'' but the pull of writings spanning the course sounds of a year, Cocker quietly explores nature in dozen different birds singing their hearts out was far too much to resist on a cold and rather wet February morning. I spent an indulgent hour or so reading all about the village, birds and his relationship listening to the living things around him, as well as the surrounding landscapetheir song. All written with a deep knowledge Then - just because I could - I went back and a wonderful eye for detail, Cocker truly gets to the heart of the local wildlife did it all again and it was just as good the local communitysecond time around. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593475</amazonuk> So, what do you get?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zoe Greaves and Leslie SadlierHoneyborne BlueII|title=HareBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Some animals feature large in mythology and You may well remember when the hare is one sticking of these. The hare wea number 're going to meet is O2'Hare after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - wellthat the first film had been so good it was fully justified to have something more. That has hardly been proven correct, we hope we're going but it has until recently almost been confined 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 cinema - you barely got a moonlit night - see him leaping TV series worthy of a numbered sequel, and never in front the world of the moon non- fiction. If someone has made a nature series about, say, Alaska (and through boy aren't there are a summer meadow, where we only catch sight lot of his hind legs those these days) and his earswants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. Look on But some nature programmes do have the riverbank - is that him in prestige, the water? Then he's in amongst energy and the cabbages heft to demand follow- the farmer is ''not'' going to be pleased about thatups. Is he And after five years in the foxglove patch? We can see the foxmaking, but it looks as though O'Hare has gone. The best sighting we have of him is on the corn field, where heBBC's leaping through the stubbleBlue Planet series has delivered a second helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646032</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=David NeiwertMarianne Taylor|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Montgomery Tamed|title=Of Orcas Tamed and MenUntamed: What Killer Whales Can Teach UsClose Encounters of the Animal Kind|author=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

|summary=Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall-Thomas are best friends who also happen to be ''New York Times'Profoundly humbling experiences are good for our souls,' Neiwert asserts in the best-selling authors. They first pages bonded over their shared love of his all-encompassing book about killer whales. For him, encountering orcasanimals: shortly after meeting, one of the worldSy's largest mammalspet ferret had given Liz a nasty bite, has been both humbling and inspiring, reminding him that humans are just one among many wondrous species and that it is wrong for us but Liz didn't seem to exploit other creatures for our own benefitmind at all. After moving to Seattle, he tried for three years to see the whales''She REALLY didn't mind being bitten by a weasel. I knew we were soul mates, '' recalls Sy. ''Tamed and finally gave up; it was only when he began spending time in Untamed'' is the places where resulting collaboration between the orcas live, simply for two friends as they share personal anecdotes and amazing stories about the pleasure of it, that he started seeing them all the timeanimal world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468308653</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seb BraunBarr_Elephant|title=The Tiger Prowls: a pop-up book of wild animals10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|author=Catherine Barr and Hanako Clulow

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's a hardback book with a striking cover and when you open itTen reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, donI't expect endpapers or gentle introductions: ve never needed ten reasons as you lift the coverthey've always been my favourite large animal, the tiger gentle giants of the title appears: ''The tiger prowlsAfrica and India, stalking through but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the jungle.most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''<br>grandmothers''Paw after heavy paw crunches on . Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the forest floorone in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher FranceschelliGrindrod Outskirts|title= DinoblockOutskirts|author=John Grindrod|rating= 4|genre= For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary= As befits a book about dinosaurs, 'Dinoblock' Outskirts'' is suitably chunkyan interesting take on a phenomenon of the modern age: the introduction of the green belt of the countryside surrounding inner-city housing estates. Not monstrously large but enticingly substantial John Grindrod grew up on the edge of one such estate in a the 1960s and '70s, as he puts it, ''pick me I grew up and read meon the last road in London.'' kind Grindrod explores the introduction of waythe 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. Inside Within this board booktopic, he has somehow managed to wind around his personal memories of childhood, twenty plus beasts are on paradeproducing a memoir with a lot of heart. If you don't know your Triassic from your Jurassic step this way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonMoss Wild|title=The Hounds of FalsterboWild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife|author=Stephen Moss

|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet Wildlife has been declining in Britain over the seaslast few decades; it is an unfortunate by-product of human population growth,''<br>''The heather meets which in the sand dunes''<br>'modern world has increased significantly. Through this book Moss suggests a few ways in which we can start to bring back some of Britain'And long grasses dance s wildlife without compromising the breezehuman way of life: we can co-exist with nature.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve BackshallSewell Spot|title=Favourite Deadly FactsThe Big Bird Spot|author=Matt Sewell

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Many people have wondered what limbo must feel likeRecently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs whilst a very helpful volunteer guided my sightline to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finally, I for found one think it will be like being trapped , after visually sorting through all the other birds on a long car journey with an enthusiastic child clasping a bumper book of factsthe precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. There is nothing quite The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird Spot'', shows some cliffs very like a book about how longthose at Bempton, how short or how wide something is but this time you're going to put a certain type of child be looking for twenty-three Little Auks, in cloveramongst the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbills. This type Oh, and you're looking for a pair of book should come with a warning sticker on the front as any nearby adult binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless because you're going to get their ear talked off, especially if it is a bumper fact bookhave to find them in every picture.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015397</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith PartridgeBurkey_Ethics|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 Ethics 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 Full World or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses Can Animal-Lovers Save 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>}}{{newreviewWorld?|author= Simon Barnes|title= Ten Million AliensTormod V Burkey|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=3.54

|summary=At age 15, on a camping trip to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphanyBurkey argues that man's current practices are outside the realms of nature. It was He is no longer part of the first time that he had felt ecosystem but instead exists above it through his dominating ways. He is himself to be a part of naturedistanced even further by advancement in technologies, industry, money and all the pollution that the environment really mattered to himcomes with them. As a big picture personThe natural world, howeverBurkey argues, this had never translated into an affinity no longer exists for individual species, even though man because he became a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''has altered it by such things. That isIndeed, until he came across a mysterious listing for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaedia. This creature global warming has never been seen in caused climate change, which, if it continues, will make the wild, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964world unrecognisable. For some reason, the golden mole captured Girling's imaginationworld to become fuller, becoming for it to be a symbol of rarity and world that seeks to provide for the fragility needs of mammals' existenceevery living thing, then it needs to change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara StarbuckLjung_Butterfly|title= Born Free Lion Rescue: The True Story of Bella and SimbaBuild a ... Butterfly|author=Kiki Ljung

|summary=Bella was not supposed to be worked as I love butterflies: they're one of the delights of my garden and it's always a youngster as pleasure when there are children there and they see a model butterfly close up, possibly for holidaymakers' photos on the Black Sea Coastfirst time, but that probably happened before she ended up in as it rests on a poor Romanian zoo, blind in one eye and losing the sight in flower. Kiki Ljung has given us the other. Simba was not supposed opportunity to be shaking his magnificent maned figure learn about butterflies and also to build a circus cage in southern France3D model of our own. But she was, and he was, and things weren't right. Luckily, The book is primarily aimed at the zoo was too poor five to operate, and people were already on hand to relocate the animals, and fortunately someone realised the circus was a noeight-year-starter as wellold age group, when it comes but I have to keeping confess that I had a fully-grown lion in captivitygreat deal of fun building my own painted lady. In alternating chapters the two cats' tales eventually combine to one, in this great little read with I learned quite a heart-warming message.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015338</amazonuk>bit too!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen DaveyJones_Foxes|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 GuideFoxes Unearthed: 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, A Story of course, until now, Love and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-Loathing 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>}}{{newreviewModern Britain|author=Jen Green and Wesley Robins|title=Oceans in 30 Seconds|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is the latest book in the innovative series from Ivy Press, which aims to give an informative and entertaining overview of a given subject in bite-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own two-page spread, with a concise description on the left, covering all of the main points, and a colourful illustration on the right hand page, complete with extra snippets of information. Each chapter also has a handy 3-second sum up, which further condenses the main idea of the chapter into a single sentence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Barroux|title=Where's the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, 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 places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dave Goulson|title=A Buzz in the MeadowLucy Jones|rating=4.5

|summary=Back As one of the largest predators left in 2003Britain, biologist Dave Goulson bought the fox is captivating: a runcomfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-down farmhouse and 33 acres of meadow eyed wildness in the idyllic French countrysideour towns. His aim was to create Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a sanctuary for all sorts of wildlifecunning rogue, where creatures could go about their business without fear a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of disturbance. Soonwild animals, it is also the meadows were abuzz with activity, with insect species thrivingleast understood. BirdsHere Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, mammals and amphibians also colonised this tranquil patch of countrysidefiction, including the mysterious 'snake and owl-eating beast' folklore and her own history with the elusive 'wack-wack' birdcreatures...but if you want to find out more Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about themus, you will have to read and our relationship with the book for yourselfnatural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597691</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom Metisola_1st|title=Wild AdventuresMy First Animals|author=Aino-Maija Metsola

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When I was growing upGet used to two simple words if you have a child, TV only had four channels ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and games consoles came in the form over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chair, hat, my sense of the rubber keyed ZX Spectrumregret. Sometimes they will point at something that is not too familiar. Despite these meagre offerings, we would still spend endless summer hours in Here the sitting room if our parents had not thrown us outsideparental practice of making something up comes into play – it's a bird type thing. In 2015Books that show images of items, there are far more TV channels colours or animals may seem a little dull to watch and games come in high fidelityan adult, what chance does nature have against ‘Call of Duty’? You would be surprised, as despite all the creature comforts of but to a toddler learning about the front room, children still want to play outsideworld, all they have to be - is inspiredare a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804365</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrienne BarmanPackham_Babies|title=CreaturepediaAmazing Animal Babies|author=Chris Packham and Jason Cockcroft|rating=43.5

|summary=''Creaturepedia'' welcomes young readers to the greatest show on earthMany children love animals, showcasing but they love baby animals even more than 600 different creatures within its pages. Rather than listing the animals in traditional alphabetical order, this book groups creatures according to Would you rather watch a dog or watch a puppy? A cat or a kitten? A meerkat or a variety of criteria, including colour, habits and outstanding physical characteristics. Of course, there smaller meerkat? The answer is a handy index at no brainer to most children who enjoy the end wide-eyed stumbling of youth that is not dissimilar to keep the traditionalists happy tootheir own. There are a few unusual categories thrown inHowever, such as mythical beats someone needs to give them the facts about baby animals and extinct animals, as well as endangered species that sadly, may become extinct very soon|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806341</amazonuk>who better than wildlife presenter Chris Packham?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Pinnington and Caz BuckinghamPrasadamHall_Pairs|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 Pairs 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>}}{{newreview|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, 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 Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Mystery of BirdsLorna Scobie|rating=54

|summary=Sometimes it is easy 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 ''murmurationPairs in the Garden'' is a fun book/game hybrid for little fingers into the search bar on Youtube and prepare to be mesmerised as creepy crawlies. It's a huge flock of lift-the birds perform -flap book with a gracefully hypnotic aerial ballet which has an almost alien quality. If we take time difference, because not only do you get to stop and look at our feathered friendssee what's underneath, we will you then must see that they are anything but ordinaryif you can find a matching pair on the same page. The bird world is full But beware! You cannot just use the process of unsolved mysteries that humans elimination because there are 7 flaps on each page, but only now beginning 3 pairs to unravel: How do pigeons navigate? How do vultures find food? What are penguins afraid of? How do nutcrackers find their hidden food caches? ''The Magic and Mystery of Birds'' searches for the answers to these questions, as well as many more, opening our eyes to the hidden world of birds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>One poor creature is all alone with no partner.