Dara McAnulty is a naturalist, conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. He's received many awards for his conservation work, including from BBC Springwatch, The Daily Mirror and Birdwatch magazine. He's written and presented numerous natural history programmes for BBC radio and television, and become an ambassador for the RSPCA, the iWill campaign and the Jane Goodall Institute. Dara is the youngest ever recipient of the RSPB medal for conservation. He lives with his family and Rosie the rescue-greyhound at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in County Down. His first book Diary of a Young Naturalist won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. 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. He illustrated Dara McAnulty's Wild Child.
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Introduction
1. Windows to See the World Through Facts Collective Nouns Making a Bird Feeder
2. The Garden Facts Classification Making a Terrarium
3. The Woods Facts Trees and Their Propagation What Is Living in an Oak Tree?
4. The Hilltop Facts Migration Making a Journey Stick
5. The River Facts Metamorphosis Pond Dipping
Afterword Glossary Helpful Organizations About the Author and Illustrator
