Category: Book review

This is an attractive book about butterflies written by one of the leading young nature enthusiasts. Rebecca’s seen one more butterfly species in her garden than I have in mine so I am envious of her knowledge and good fortune. This book – the first of many? – concentrates on the Small White Butterfly. This…

Review by Lyn Ebbs When I see that the subtitle of a book contains the word ‘year’, especially a book about wildlife, I’ve come to expect a 12-month chase around the country (or the world) in pursuit of a complete list of some type of animal or a heroic battle against a deadline to create…

This is a rambling book – in a good way. It meanders around the countryside of Devon and East Anglia looking at places and issues for a while and moving on to the next interesting issue. That’s fine by me. Is it a nature book? Who cares! There’s certainly quite a lot of nature in…

This is a delightful book for children, but will appeal to all ages, and would be particularly suitable for parents (or grandparents) to look at with their younger relatives. Millie Marotta is responsible for both the illustrations and the text – and both are very good. The format is pretty simple; full page illustration, and…

This isn’t a book review as I wrote the Foreword to this book and so can hardly be unbiased. It’s a very good book – and pitched just right to have something to offer to both the expert and the beginner. And Dan Powell’s illustrations are just lovely. Ian Carter has reviewed books and written…