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Wild Ideas

Book Synopsis

A beautiful, non-fiction picture book challenging children’s preconceptions and showing them they can learn from animals.

Wild Ideas looks deep into the forests, skies and oceans to explore how animals solve problems. Whether it’s weaving a safe place to rest and reflect, blowing a fine net of bubbles to trap fish or leaping boldly into a new situation, the animals in our world can teach us a lot about problem-solving. From the creators of You Are Stardust , the book uses lyrical text grounded in current science alongside wonderfully detailed art to present problems as doorways to creative thinking. Wild Ideas encourages an enquiry-based approach to learning, inviting readers to indulge their sense of wonder and curiosity by observing the natural world, engaging with big ideas and asking questions.

Perfect for readers aged 5 and up.

Our Review Panel says...

We love this engaging non-fiction text all about the way in which animals use problem-solving to overcome everyday challenges. In this book readers will look at how dung beetles use the stars to map their journeys, how humpback whales create nets of bubbles to capture their next fishy meal and how mimic octopuses disguise themselves in the most creative of ways. The collage-style illustrations draw the reader into the incredible world of nature while the short, vocabulary-rich text is perfect for inspiring deeper thinking about what we can learn from nature’s problem-solvers and would be a great stimulus for a writing project.

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