[[Category:New Reviews|Animals and Wildlife]]
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|author=Ruth Binney
|title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)
|rating=4
|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbag. Would it be rather superficial?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey
|summary=Bees have been making a bit of a media splash of late, due to heightened concern about their declining numbers and general welfare. Governments have been urged to do more to protect these important creatures, with a recent EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as a 'victory for bees'. There is no doubt that these prolific pollinators are a vital part of our ecosystem, and the human fascination with bees goes back to our ancient history. But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinating?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Laks
|title=My Gentle Barn: where animals heal and children learn to hope
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As a child Ellie Laks was abused, but not only did she suffer at the hands of her abuser, she also had to endure parental indifference to what was happening to her. Her only relief came through animals - and even then she had to cope when the animals were taken from her. As an adult she discovered that she had a real talent for healing animals - and that they helped her to heal too. In a brilliant leap of intuition she realised that if the animals could help her to heal they could do the same for others and so the Gentle Barn was born - a place where animals were brought as a place of safety and where disadvantaged children and special needs groups could use as therapy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584883</amazonuk>
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