Dara McAnulty

A Wild Child's Book of Nature at Night (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of Wild Child and A Wild Child's Book of Birds, both shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing and Conservation.

Join the brilliant Dara McAnulty, winner of the Wainwright Prize for Diary of a Young Naturalist, as he shows you how to explore nature at night. This beautiful, informative new book is illustrated in full colour by Barry Falls.

Prepare to embark on a night-time adventure, learning how to use all your senses to experience the wonders that unfold at night. Journey through five different habitats in Britain and Ireland - meet hedgehogs and moths in the garden; bats, owls, foxes and badgers in the woodland; corncrakes and dormice in the countryside; pine martens, glow-worms and mountain hares in the heathlands; and the animals that live as constellations in our sky.

Full of fantastic facts about nocturnal animals, activities on how to spot them and ways that we can protect the natural world around us. Once you understand just how amazing our beautiful planet is, you will want to do everything you can to protect it.

Dara closes the book with his own inspirational advice for young conservationists. This is the perfect guide for an aspiring naturalist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781035024698
• Artikelnr.: 69235974

Autorenporträt

Dara McAnulty is a naturalist, conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. He's received many awards for his conservation work, including from BBC Springwatch, The Daily Mirror and Birdwatch magazine. He's written and presented numerous natural history programmes for BBC radio and television, and become an ambassador for the RSPCA, the iWill campaign and the Jane Goodall Institute. Dara is the youngest ever recipient of the RSPB medal for conservation. He is the author of two books for children, both illustrated by Barry Falls, Wild Child and A Wild Child's Book of Birds. He is currently reading Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and in the holidays lives with his family and Rosie the rescue-greyhound at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in County Down.

His first book Diary of a Young Naturalist won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and Wild Child was shortlisted for the 2022 Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation. Dara won the Children's Author category of Bookshop.org's inaugural Indie Champions Awards. He was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2023 New Year Honours list for services to the environment and people with autism spectrum disorder.