Sunday Book Review – And After That He Ate Them by Leon Hills

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This book is for children but I enjoyed it, and I suspect younger children will too.

A frog wanders around and comes across various other creatures, all of whom he engages in conversation before he eats them!

The illustrations are big and bold and attractive.  In each there are half a dozen hidden mini-beasts for which children, up to at least the age of 55, will enjoy searching.

I think most children would find the book fun, and as a result might learn a little about mini-beasts and might well develop an interest in them.

Congratulations to the author/artist, to Langford Press and to Amphibian and Reptile Conservation who supported the book’s production.

And After That He Ate Them is available from Amazon (as is Mark Avery’s Fighting for Birds where the e-book is available at a remarkably cheap £2.05 for a few more days (until end of December)).

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Langford Press is producing a number of natural history books for children, see also Screamer the Swift by John Miles.

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5 Replies to “Sunday Book Review – And After That He Ate Them by Leon Hills”

  1. Mini-beasts?! ….Bah humbug!

    Do we really need to use these dumbed-down terms to educate young people about wildlife? What’s wrong with words such as ‘insect’ or ‘invertebrate’?

    1. Proper words are not in the rich, diverse, vibrant and infantile vocabulary of the public-facing communicators – that’s what’s wrong

  2. Hi Mark,
    I spent an hour reading this with my 3 year old nephew on Christmas morning. At least it drew his attention away from his batman fixation (although I am encouraging him with real bats).
    Recommended.

  3. Mark – a suggestion for a future review – 10 Billion by Stephen Emmott (Penguin press 2013, £7 paperback). Emmott is Head of Computational Science for Microsoft Research in Cambridge (UK), visiting professor of Computational Science at Oxford University etc. Uncomfortable reading….especially his views about solutions to our pressing environmental problems.
    Nick

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