A Wild Child’s Book of Nature at Night
A Wild Child’s Book of Nature at Night is a stunning illustrated guide to the creatures that wake up, when we all go to bed! Both beautiful and informative, this is a gorgeous book for night-time reading for big children too!
The book includes info on making bird-feeders. Learn of safe foods, cleaning and placement in our post on safe havens for garden birds. And how to prevent birds flying into windows (where you place bird feeders is very important).
If building a terrarium, read our post on pet-toxic plants to avoid.
Embark on a night-time adventure! You’ll learn how to use all your senses to experience the wonders that unfold at night, through five habitats across Britain and Ireland (the author is from Northern Ireland). You’ll meet:
- Hedgehogs and moths in the garden
- Bats, owls, foxes and badgers in woodlands
- Corncrakes and dormice in the countryside
- Pine martens, glow-worms and mountain hares in heathlands
- Animals that lives as constellations, in our sky!
This book is packed with interesting facts about our nocturnal animal friends, plus tips on how to protect the natural world around us. One you understand just how amazing our beautiful planet is, you’ll want to do all you can to protect it.
Dara McAnulty first came to attention when his incredible debut book Diary of a Young Naturalist was published in 2021, and immediately won him the Wainwright Nature Writing Prize, when still a teenager.
It told his story of how as an autistic young man, he would cope with his condition by getting out into nature, encountering blackbirds, whooper swans, red kites, hen harriers, frogs, dandelions and Irish hares.
Since then, he’s written and presented many natural history programmes for BBC radio and television, and become an ambassador for the RSPCA, the Jane Goodall Institute and the iWill campaign (he’s also the youngest ever recipient of the RSPB medal for conservation).
About the Author
Dara currently is reading Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, and lives with his family (including a rescued greyhound) in Northern Ireland.
