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{{newreview|author=Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham|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>}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Macdonald
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Noah Strycker
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642790</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Backshall
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Snow Leopard (Mini Edition)
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805477</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Life on Air
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908524</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Four Fields
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099541378</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Animal Lives: Lions
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Animal Lives: Giraffes
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715300</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Animal Lives: Elephants
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715319</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Animal Lives: Cheetahs
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781715327</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Bee: A Natural History
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Laks
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marianne Taylor and Andrew Perris
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005971</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jill Hucklesby
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407133217</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Barnes
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780720866</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Hay
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033053792X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Whyman
I'm so pleased I read this book. It's only the occasional writer who grabs me by the short and curlies with his observation of human nature, but accomplished children's writer Matt Whyman not only grabbed me, but sold me on the mini-pigs as well.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444711466</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gordon Grice
|title=The Book of Deadly Animals
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Animals and humans have long mixed, even though the one has almost always proven capable of being lethal to the other. Many scientists in the past decided animals killing humans were aberrant, and that the real animal knew it was second best to humans, having been saved in the Ark, and respected our dominion over them. Even now, it seems, there are opinions that creatures attacking mankind are somehow rogue and need destroying. But where is the wrong in an animal behaving as its nature compels it? Similarly, the human wandering around the wilderness, or even the idiot woman feeding a black bear her own toddler's honey-dripping hand (true story - what the bear thought of the taste of honeyed fingers we don't know) is just the same in reverse - humans behaving as only humans can.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919675</amazonuk>
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