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A Wild Child's Guide to Nature at Night

Series: Wild Child
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Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty—winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for his book Diary of a Young Naturalist and author of Wild Child and A Wild Child's Book of Birds—on a journey through nature at night. This fantastic new book is illustrated in full colour... Read More
Format: Hardback
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A Wild Child's Guide to Nature at Night

Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty – winner of the Wainwright Prize for his book Diary of a Young Naturalist and author of Wild Child and A Wild Child's Book of Birds – on a journey through nature at night.

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Join brilliant young naturalist Dara McAnulty—winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize for his book Diary of a Young Naturalist and author of Wild Child and A Wild Child's Book of Birds—on a journey through nature at night. This fantastic new book is illustrated in full colour by Barry Falls.

This beautiful, informative book takes you through nature at night in five different habitats in Britain and Ireland. Meet hedgehogs and moths in the garden; bats, owls, foxes, and badgers in the woodland; glow worms on the coast; Manx Shearwater in the sky and corncrakes, dormice, and woodcock on the farm.

Learn about circadian rhythms, hibernation, echolocation, biofluorescence, murmurations, the dawn chorus, and how to use the stars for orientation.

Series: Wild Child

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035023028

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 258.0mm

Height: 307.0mm

Weight: 696g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Dara McAnulty (BEM) is a multi-award winning author and conservationist. He is the youngest ever winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, the British Zoological Society award for communicating zoology and the RSPB Medal for conservation. He is a prolific campaigner, fundraiser and advocate for the natural world. He divides his time between Cambridge University and the Mourne Mountains, where he lives with his family in County Down. Barry Falls grew up in rural Northern Ireland, where he spent a lot of time drawing pictures and writing stories to go with them. When he got to art college in Belfast, he discovered that he might be able to do such a thing for a living, and was very excited. Since then, he's been working as a commercial illustrator, and picking up multiple awards for the work he does for such clients as The New York Times, American Airlines, The Telegraph, Laurence King Publishing and many more besides. His work has appeared in magazines, books, exhibitions, on textiles and homeware, and in advertising campaigns around the world. His first book, It's Your World Now! was published in 2019.

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