A Bear Belongs: A rescue story

(Hardback)

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The perfect follow-up for fans of Fourteen Wolves, this uplifting eco story follows the amazing true tale of three endangered sun bear cubs. Meet Tan-Tan 'the tiny one', Kitud 'the quiet one' and Boboi 'the big brother', and follow them from their heartbreaking beginnings as little cubs stolen from their natural habitat, through to their heroic rescue by Dr Wong before being released back into the wild Bornean rainforest where they belong. Featuring insightful fact pages about the amazing flora and fauna of the rainforest and its importance to the ecosystem, alongside inspiring information about how to save the bears.

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Brilliant, inspirational and pulls no punches, telling one of the really big conservation stories, The Tigers' Tale is superbly illustrated and wonderfully told * Tim Birkhead, Author of What it's Like to Be a Bird on THE TIGERS' TALE *
An extraordinary and hard-hitting story of a species on the brink, which finishes with a message of hope that will galvanise you into action * Jess French, Author of What a Waste and Lost Species on THE TIGERS' TALE *

Author Bio

Catherine Barr is a prolific non-fiction natural history writer and former Greenpeace campaigner. She writes illustrated books to spark conversation and curiosity, and loves to work closely with local experts on her books. Her books include: The Story of Life (Francis Lincoln) the 10 Reasons to Love series (having the Natural History Museum's imprimatur), Bloomsbury's Fourteen Wolves, The Tigers' Tale and many other books about animals around the world. Harriet Hobday developed her love of storytelling doing the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and is now based in Edinburgh. She is the illustrator of Wild Cities and Wild Family (Puffin) and All Through The Night (Nosy Crow). She was selected for The Bookseller's Illustrator Showcase and The Cheltenham Illustration Awards, was runner up in The Batsford Prize, and has been highly commended in 'The Macmillan Prize' for Children's Illustration.