For reading age 8 years and over, but really can be read to younger kids and read by much older kids too … so many interesting and beautifully illustrated facts about nature.Tertulia Bookshop in the Mayo News.
Have you ever wondered how migrating swifts eat and sleep during their long migration? Why wasps become bothersome
to humans in autumn? Or why frogs, though they have no gills, do not drown when they hibernate at the bottom
of ponds? Do you know the easiest way to tell a lizard from a newt? Who better to provide answers to those
questions than biologist and broadcaster Eanna Ni Lamhna? … Ni Lamhna is also a mine of information on other topics
some of us may prefer not to ponder. The difference between the black shiny poos excreted by rabbits and the
dried-up variety … Ni Lamhna certainly knows how to pique children’s interest, with bluebottle maggots,
bloodsucking head lice, and bed bugs also making appearances in this icky-sticky trail through some of nature’s
most wonderfully weird creations. For inquisitive young readers with a fascination for the unusual, this absorbing
and beautifully-illustrated hardback is perfect gift material. The Echo, Pet O’Connell.
utterly fascinating ... something for adults and young people. Virgin TV’s Ireland AM.
Non-fiction guide to weird & wonderful & sometimes incredibly gross things in nature. Claire Hennessy.
Ni Lamhna is well known for her nature writing and broadcasting. In this book, she collects all kinds of nature
facts that will fascinate children (and their grown-ups!), from ‘Why Frogs Don’t Drown’ to ‘Squirrels
Don’t Hibernate’. She explains why the animals we love to hate — foxes, seagulls, magpies — don’t deserve their
bad names, and explains fascinating natural phenomena such as cuckoo spit and “dog’s vomit slime mould”.
The illustrations by Fitzgerald are colourful and eye-catching. Irish Independent, Sarah Webb.
A wonderful publication … amazing … brilliant book. RTE Radio’s Ray D’Arcy show.
A must read for any nature loving kiddies … and adults too. Eason.