Standing up for Nature
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…
This is a book about rediscovering, and reconnecting with, nature, as an adult. The preface sets the book up well and establishes the engaging tone. The author rediscovers all sorts of wildlife but bees are the co-stars of this account. I know Brigit a little, and this book is just what I expected: enthusiastic and…
Review by Miles King. Miles works for People Need Nature, and writes about nature on his blog. One of the unexpected bonuses of being a regular writer is that publishers’ PR agents send you books, for free, in the hope that they will be reviewed, perhaps even favourably. Even if that writing is only a…
When I was at Wheldrake Ings on Thursday I was given a copy of this book. Wheldrake Ings is one of the important staging posts for Whimbrels on spring migration. In late April and May, thousands of Whimbrel call in, feed up and prepare for the onward journey to their main breeding grounds in Iceland….
This is a book about saving wild places across the world. In its chapters we travel from a couple of places in Kent to Glasgow, the Gwent Levels, the Fens of Cambridgeshire but also the mid West of the USA, forests in India and the seas of Indonesia. Each of the chapters deal with a…
‘Bobbie is thrilled that a golden eagle has settled in the forest near her family’s farm. She loves to walk the hills with her granny and watch the bird soar through the sky. But not everyone shares Bobbie’s awe for the spectacular bird. When her granny’s beloved dog is killed by poisoned bait, it soon…
After his site was hit with technical problems on the same day my book was reviewed there, Mark kindly offered me the option to post a guest blog on how I came to write the book. The idea to write The Blue Hare came to me in October 2016 while I was working at a…
Reviewed by Ian Carter This book is aimed, I imagine, primarily at older children, perhaps in their early teens or a little younger for more advanced readers. That being so, when asked to read it I thought I’d have a look at a chapter or two to get a flavour of the writing and write…