Review
An essential family guide to child-led activities that will help you discover the wonders of flora and fauna.
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Daily Express )
I love this. A wildlife handbook, a sketchbook, a diary, it is really interesting and relevant, whether you are out in the garden, trudging through woods or stuck behind and artic on the A14. Indeed your sweet ;ittle dearly beloveds will be fascinated by the bits on road kill. With tips on beachcombing and facts about birds, flowers and trees, it is a useful primer too. All shot through with poetry. No really. Robert Browning, W.B Yeats, Walter de la Mare walk with you along the hedgerows and there's nothing quite like pond-dipping with Gerald Manley Hopkins for an earworm.
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Families )
Lots of activities pictures and poetry to encourage your child to explore wildlife
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Junior )
treasures abound throughout the pages of this magnificent treat of a book.
(
School Librarian )
a treasure trove of activities, information, observation, pictures and poetry.
(
Surrey Nature )
About the Author
Mick Manning grew up in Haworth, West Yorkshire and studied Illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. He has written and illustrated over 60 books, mostly with his partner Brita Granström.Their distinctive books have won many awards. Their first book, The World is Full of Babies, won the Smarties Silver Prize in 1996. Mick and Brita live in the Scottish Borders and have 4 sons. Their other books with Frances Lincoln include the critically acclaimed Fly on the Wall series: Roman Fort, Pharaoh's Egypt, Viking Longship, Greek Hero, Tail-End Charlie and What Mr Darwin Saw. Both Roman Fort and Viking Longship were shortlisted for the English Association 4-11 Awards and Greek Hero won in 2008. Snap! is the follow-up to Yuck! which was a regional winner of the Highland Book Awards 2006. Recently Mick and Brita donated the entire body of work created for their book Fly on the Wall: Greek Heroto Seven Stories, the centre for children's books
To visit the website of Mick Manning and Brita Granström click here
To read an interview with Mick Manning and Brita Granström click here
Brita Granström grew up on a Swedish farm and has an MFA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Stockholm. She and Mick Manning live in the Scottish Borders have four sons. Their first book together,
The World is Full of Babies won the Smarties Silver Award in 1996 and their second book,
What's Under the Bed? took the TES Junior Information Book Award in 1997.
Yum Yum and
How Did I Begin? were 2 of the 6 children's books shortlisted for the Rhone Poulene Prize in 1998.
Science School made the shortlist in the following year. In 2000,
Wash, Scrub, Brush! won the English Association's non-fiction award for the best picture book, with
Let's Party making the shortlist in 2001. Brita won both
Parenting Magazine's Book of the Year and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award 2000 with her illustrations for Judy Hindley's
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes.
To visit the website of Brita Granström and Mick Manning click here
To read an interview with Mick Manning and Brita Granström click here<
