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Life in the Wild: Observing the Mysterious Lives of 10 Real Animals

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Meet 10 exceptional animals and track their unique and hidden escapades through the animal kingdom in this exciting wildlife book for kids

What can ten real-life and jaw-dropping animal journeys teach us about our world, and the ways in which it is changing?

As a filmmaker and scientist, Lizzie Daly tells stories about the natural world and uncovers the hidden secrets of our planet. But despite huge advances in technology, there is still so much we don’t know about what species get up to in the wild. However, sometimes – just sometimes – we get a small glimpse into what their lives are like.

This eye-opening children’s wildlife book offers:

– The adventures of exceptional stories of 10 animals, including the longest travelled Great White Shark, the oldest living wild bird, and a puma turned long distance swimmer!
– Content written by scientist, conservationist, and TV presenter Lizzie Daly (who children may recognise from CBBC and Cbeebies!).
– A combination of science and storytelling, helping children to see and understand the natural world through the eyes of a scientist.

Life in the Wild tells the tale of our planet’s intriguing wildlife. Through 10 real stories, we follow in the footprints of polar bears, big cats, wolves, and jaguars, and explore oceans with whales, sharks, and seabirds. These tales of migration, mystery, and unique behaviours teach children new and exciting information about animal activity and ecology, and give us access to some of the most inhospitable corners of our planet.

Our Review Panel says...

‘Life In The Wild’ is a fantastic non-fiction book that focuses on ten unique and interesting animals, found all over the world, including tiger sharks, albatross’ and jaguars. Described by author, Lizzie Daly, as a book that intersects between science, storytelling, adventure and conservation, this book will certainly inform and entertain any who read it and could certainly be used to further develop scientific understanding of living things.

For each animal focus, readers are given interesting factual information about the animals’ habitat, feeding habits and their young. They are also given a story example of each animal, which has been tagged and tracked by scientists. This is quite refreshing for a non-fiction book. In particular, each animal story is summarised with a ‘What have we learned?’ which offers scientific reflection about conservation and habitats for these animals. This book helps the reader to understand some of the plights facing these animals due to our ever-changing world, and readers may find some of these facts, for example how much further these animals are travelling for food or their changing habitats, both interesting and somewhat harrowing. The wonderful illustrations, by Chiara Fedele, also help readers to visually see this. Key facts are presented in a bold format or through subheadings, making this book further accessible for less confident readers.

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