The best books of wild and natural animals 2024, chosen by experts

There’s nothing like cracking open a good book in winter – and 2024 has been a bonza year for new wildlife and nature books – for adults and children. Ben Hoare o sheba tse ntle ka ho fetisisa

The best wildlife books of 2024

Coming Home: A Guide to Getting Back to Nature

• Melissa Harrison
• Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• £20

Most guides talk about where and when to see wildlife – this one is more about it. take care. Melissa Harrison calls it a “how-to book”, and in a wonderfully down-to-earth style she invites us to take time out and reconnect with the more human world around us. Packed with seasonal additions, with space to write about your experience, Coming home It is a book of self-examination as a preface to natural riches in Britain.

This is a warm and welcoming book too, thanks to Amanda Dilworth’s watercolors. Instead of dating a best friend – who has a deep connection with nature and can’t wait to share everything.

Another interesting book about natural connection is Ebb and Flow (Bloomsbury, £20), written and illustrated by Tiffany Francis-Baker. Featuring seasonal ID guides, recipes and inspiring nature activities, this is the perfect gift.

The Starling

• Stephen Moss
• Square Peg
• £14.99

Stephen Moss is one of our most advanced authors, whose fake proronish programs causes the best purchased. The Starling examines the life of a well-known but endangered European bird, which, as Moss points out, is surprisingly an invasive pest in other parts of the world. It’s the sixth in his clever “birdlife” series, and it offers the same captivating style: a fascinating collection of natural facts, folktales, quotes and historical images. well chosen.

• Kate Bradbury
• Bloomsbury
• £18.99

(2018), e tšoana le pelo-on-the-leeve. And so it is wonderful – the kind of book that will make you smile, laugh, shake your head and cry, often in quick succession. Bradbury looks back on a year of record global temperatures where he found many small ways to make a difference to nature on his doorstep. Refusing to give up, she empowers herself and the local community – and shows how we can do the same.

The Garden of Danger

• Richard Mabey
• Profile books
• £12.99

More than anyone else, it was Richard Mabey who started Britain’s interest in nature writing, in books like. Free Food (1972) and Unclaimed Land (1973). His latest stories reveal the progress of his Norfolk country garden over the past 20 years, against the backdrop of climate change and the author’s own age. This is classic Mabey: smart and witty, combining a deep concern for the environment with delight in the way nature never surprises us.

Eternal life

• Jules Howard
• Elliott&Thompson
• £20

The scientific and radio programs is restored with a lot of brain, this time the wise evolution of animal evolution, mentioned in the scene of the eggs hundreds of millions. “The joy of eggs,” explains, “that is that he is sitting between the bordering countries and death. They represent potential. ”

Made Creatures

• Natalie Lawrence
• Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• £20

This terrific, comprehensive book explores why humans have been creating monsters and will appeal to anyone interested in natural history, as well as mythology and the supernatural. Lawrence digs into the depths of our psyche to ask what these imaginary animals, from dragons and deep-sea kraken to beasts and serpent women, can tell us about ourselves.

The Beast’s Grandmother

• Hugh Warwick
• Bloomsbury
• £18.99

Eliminating wild animals is something that many conservation organizations do, but it can choose not to talk about it. To his great honor, Warwick provides a virtuous report that involves a handful of complexity involved in “control” – that is, to kill or destroy – something and one from gray squirrels to hedgehogs and python.

Spirits of Nature

• Sophie Yeo
• HarperNorth
• £22

Yea takes us a happy journey forward and backward, while revealing how people have changed Britain and intimate Europe. It is a good writer, and organizes a big, clear story to give a light how the land was and how we could create many wild things in them.

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The best wildlife books for children

Bringing Back the Beast: 20 Natural Success Stories

• Helen Scales
• Laurence King
• £16.99

Perhaps the hardest part of writing about nature for children is talking about environmental issues without scaring your readers. After all, fear about the future of the world is not limited to older generations. Matšoenyeho a tikoloho a bonahala haholo likolong tsa mathomo.

Return of the Beast deals with this confusion, first of all, it looks great, with full-page illustrations by the two ‘Good Wives And Warriors’ artists. These 20 stories of hope that species can be saved around the world are by biologist and science writer Helen Scales. The species produced are often fascinating – tigers, kiwi, humpback whales – yet they do not escape the challenges of habitat loss, pollution, introduced species and climate change.

A separate section covers different habitats and their key threats. Designed for 9-11 years readers, Return of the Beast it manages to be fun, honest and empowering – a difficult balancing act.

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Qualified vet, children’s author and former CBeebies presenter Jess French returns with a fascinating outdoor vet review. The highlights of this original book are the amazing pieces that show the nature of hummingbirds, giraffes, turtles and many more. Beautiful design with colors, eye-catching details and clear descriptions of the body’s main systems, such as breathing or digestion, make it successful. It is meant for readers 5-9 years, but most adults will learn one or two things!

Autumn Festival: Nature Harvest

• Sean Taylor and Alex Morss
• this happiness
• £12.99

The last part in the four-part festival of the seasons, Autumn Festival It is, like siblings, a beautiful picture of pictures with a few brief messages of natural history. Suitable for children aged 4-7, the beautifully written announcements are set in fictional urban areas in Britain or north-west Europe, although only some of the characters are actually named. Four references behind the book confirm the information about the drop-down leaves, rot, spreading seed and so on.