The Hidden Wisdom of Animals (learn from nature)
The Hidden Wisdom of Animals is a beautiful book for young readers to celebrate over 40 creatures worldwide, and in lyrical reflections, focus on one amazing quality or skill from each that we can learn.
Young readers age 9 and up will enjoy this book, which celebrates over 40 creatures from around the world, with lyrical 100 to 500 word reflections, that each focus on one amazing skill or quality that the animal embodies – and that we can learn from.
Author Alison Davies lives in Colorado (USA) where she writes books on National Parks, and environmental issues in the world’s wild and remote places.
Cry of the Wild (life through eyes of eight animals)
Cry of the Wild is a unique book on eight animals who have had to learn to adapt to the way humans build modern life.
A fox (grown strong on pepperoni pizza from East End dustbins) dances along a railway track towards Essex.
An orca (mourning the loss of her mother on the Isle of Sky) knows she must now lead the pod as matriarch.
At moonrise in a West Country river, an otter floats slowly downstream. Also read of geese ‘flying in from the north with snow falling from their wings’ and life imagined through the eyes of a young rabbit and a white owl.
This book gives us the chance to inhabit the lives of a cast of wild creatures as they navigate a changed world. By turns tragic and joyful, every story yields fascinating insights into the way our fellow earthlings make their way through life:
- Fox
- Orca
- Human
- Mayfly
- Rabbit
- Gannet
- Otter
- Eel
Charles Foster is a Wainwright-shortlisted nature writer. He is a fellow of Exeter College and University of Oxford and has particular passions for Greece, waves, mountains and swifts.
