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

A colourful and comical tour through the animal kingdom from award-winning author Mike Barfield and quirky cartoonist and illustrator Paula Bossio.

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 world's most interesting animals. Each story is told from the animal's 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.

Winner of the Hampshire Information Book award 2024

Publishing in 2024:
The Wild Life of Prehistoric Animals 9781780559322

About the author

Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King's 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 Children's 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 Children's Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children's Science Books (twice).

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

Summary

A colourful and comical tour through the animal kingdom from award-winning author Mike Barfield and quirky cartoonist and illustrator Paula Bossio.

Report

This book is super fun and educational, filled with fascinating facts about weird and wonderful creatures, all told from the animal's 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

Product details

• Authors: Mike Barfield, Barfield Mike, MIKE BARFIELD
• Assisted by: Paula Bossio (Illustration), Bossio Paula (Illustration)
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Publications
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9781780558196
• ISBN: 978-1-78055-819-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 280 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 444 g
• Illustrations: Full colour
• Series: The Wild Life
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Animals, plants, nature, the environment; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Humor / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Curiosities & Wonders, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Wildlife and habitats, Interest age: from c 8 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ecosystems, Wildlife (Children's/Ya)