This reviewer would describe this book as a labour of love. Even the most minimal perusal of the book makes it apparent within minutes the author/illustrator has poured her heart into creating a special guide to uniquely Irish species.
Like her namesake, Amelia Cheeseheart is an intrepid adventurer who loves to fly. Unlike the real Amelia Earheart, she is a mouse who lives inside the gift shop of a museum with her best friend; a timid banana loving spider called Webster.
This colourfully illustrated book explores how dense layers of forest interact with each other and the rich life concealed within them.
Fraidy dog is frightened of spiders, storms, the dark and all the unknown corners of his home, but his encounters with a ‘furrocious’ cat help him find the fun in his surroundings again. Learning that even the bravest of us still get scared sometimes, Fraidy gains confidence from playing with his new friend.
A rich, vibrant celebration of sunshine; this book spills light through its pages. The song-like story guides the reader on a path from sunrise to sunset charting the sun’s daily journey.
This is a light-hearted story about a little girl called Peggy who loves gardening with her mum. Peggy likes to help out with planting beans, pulling weeds and picking fruit, but things don’t always go according to plan! Before long, Peggy ends up taking a break from gardening to lie on the grass and relax after all her hard work.
There is a lot to learn about jellyfish. These resilient creatures have existed for over 500 million years, and it is predicted that they will be the last ocean inhabitants left if climate change accelerates. The world’s longest jellyfish, the Lion’s Head, has tentacles of up to thirty-six metres while the smallest are just a few millimetres long. Scientists don’t even know how many species of jellyfish there are, with estimates ranging from 970 to 300,000!
This attractive large format hardback is the third in the Nature’s Storybook series sharing stories from nature for children and young teens. Each story in this book focusses on the communication styles and techniques of different living animals and organisms with sections on mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, insects and most interestingly of all, plants and fungi.
Eleven-year-old girl Roo Thorn is negotiating everyday life around her troubled, often absent father. Within the opening pages, Roo is left alone in the world following the death of her dad and entrusted to the care of an aunt she hardly knows called Joni. Together they embrace advice to ‘grab life by the wings and fly’, pursuing Roo’s love of horses, Joni’s passion for travel and their shared interest in solving a mysterious horse disappearance.
