The Wild Life of Animals: The Secret Lives of Astounding Animals

(Paperback)

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Featuring key habitats, including seas, forests, deserts and grasslands, this book uncovers the little-known but amazing adaptations, bonkers behaviour and cunning natural skills of the worlds most interesting animals. Each story is told from the animals own perspective. Covering creatures from all over the world, readers will meet flying snakes in the rainforest, vampire squid in the ocean and meerkats in the desert. This hilarious guide, full of fascinating facts, will entrance animal lovers everywhere, and reveal the wild lives of animals like no other.

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This book is super fun and educational, filled with fascinating facts about weird and wonderful creatures, all told from the animals perspective. As with previous books by the author, it is in a graphic novel style format which appeals to a wide range of readers and is aimed at 7 12 years of age. * Armadillo magazine *

Author Bio

Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to Kings College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Childrens Book Award 2021 in the Best Book with Facts category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Childrens Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Childrens Science Books (twice).

His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.