Nature's Fascinating Friendships

Name: Nature's Fascinating Friendships
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571372591
Price: 32.99 NZD
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Survival of the friendliest – how plants and animals work together

By Mike Hills

Series: Weird and Wonderful Animals

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Brilliant, thought-provoking and original. BookTrust Stunning . . . an original and fascinating book! Evie, aged 9, Toppsta Go on an amazing journey around the world to discover how animals, plants and microscopic organisms develop fascinating friendships to survive and thrive. Did you know pom pom... Read More

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Nature's Fascinating Friendships

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Go on an amazing journey around the world to discover how animals, plants and microscopic organisms develop fascinating friendships to survive and thrive.

Go on an amazing journey around the world to discover how animals, plants and microscopic organisms develop fascinating friendships to survive and thrive.

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Brilliant, thought-provoking and original. BookTrust

Stunning . . . an original and fascinating book! Evie, aged 9, Toppsta

Go on an amazing journey around the world to discover how animals, plants and microscopic organisms develop fascinating friendships to survive and thrive.

Did you know pom pom crabs wear sea anemones as boxing gloves to fight off enemies?

And greater honeybirds guide humans to hidden beehives?

And bats use pitcher plants as sleeping bags?

From ravens and wolves to trees and fungi, learn how these unlikely alliances are formed and find out all the incredible, funny, weird and disgusting reasons why these partnerships work.

Every page is beautifully illustrated and packed full of facts that should surprise and inspire us all to overcome our differences and work together more.

Series: Weird and Wonderful Animals

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Nature's Fascinating Friendships

By Mike Hills

Hardback

$32⁹⁹

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571372591

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Contributors:

Illustrated by Kerry Hyndman

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 311.0mm

Weight: 865g

Pages: 96

Collections

Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Mike Hills Series: Weird and Wonderful Animals

About the Author

Kerry Hyndman is an illustrator who loves making pictures that spark a sense of wonder in the natural world. She works on a variety of publishing, editorial and advertising projects and has a growing number of non-fiction children's books under her belt. She's also the proud owner of a Blue Peter book award (and badge!).

Mike Hills is a writer and journalist who likes to deliver the facts, but have some fun along the way. He has worked for The Times and is currently at the BBC as a news journalist but increasingly enjoys stepping into the more cheerful world of children's books. He hasn't won any awards (or badges) yet, but he'd like to one day.

The couple live on the west coast of Scotland with their daughter. They like exploring islands, lochs and mountains, finding fairy bridges and waterfalls, falling off paddle boards, swimming with seals and trying to hide from midges.

Nature's Fascinating Friendships