Can We Save the Tiger
By (Author) Martin Jenkins
Illustrated by Vicky White
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
1st January 2017
5th January 2017
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues
599.756
Winner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book, Nonfiction 2011 (United States)
Paperback
56
Width 226mm, Height 270mm, Spine 5mm
255g
A visually stunning and informative picture book about the worlds endangered animals.
Tigers are big, beautiful and fierce. But, like many other animals, they are in danger of becoming extinct. With breathtaking illustrations this picture book tells us about the threats to the many endangered species on our planet and the need to prevent their extinction.
Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist and consultant for the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, a UN organization concerned with conservation and the environment. He has won several awards for his writing including the 1998 TES Information Book of the Year Junior Award for The Emperor's Egg, and he is the reteller of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver (9781406301748), illustrated by Chris Riddell, which won the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Cambridge.
Vicky White worked as a zookeeper looking after the great apes at Cheshire Zoo where she couldn't keep from drawing them! This is her second book for children she previously collaborated with Martin Jenkins for their book Ape. In 2008 she was chosen as one of the Big Picture campaign's ten Best New Illustrators. She lives in Saxmundham, Suffolk.