Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick
10 best books like Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick (Jenny Uglow): Ring of Bright Water, My Life with the Chimpanzees, Dancing in the Wings, The Stone Book Quartet, The Haunting, The Three Railway Engines, The Classic Fairy Tales, The Cave, Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo, Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
| Author | Gavin Maxwell |
| ISBN | 0140249729 |
I wanted to read this after having a go at Miriam Darlington’s Otter Country, which in many ways revolved around this book and the landscape described by Gavin Maxwell. He got much closer to the animals than Darlington, so perhaps it’s not surprising that his account is more interesting and vital....
My Life with the Chimpanzees
| Author | Jane Goodall |
| ISBN | 0671562711 |
Inspired by a stuffed toy, Jane Goodall became the first woman to study chips in the wild and in the process made history.
As a child, Jane Goodall was given a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee, and she has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals. While others thought...
| Author | Debbie Allen |
| ISBN | 0803725019 |
Sassy worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream of becoming a star ballerina. So for now she's just dancing in the wings, watching from behind the curtain, and hoping that one day it will be her turn to shimmer in the spotlight. When the director of...
The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner binds the reader to him and he shows us the author working with language to make his book as his characters worked with stone and...
| Author | Margaret Mahy |
| ISBN | 0140363254 |
If I could use one word to describe this novel... it would be - odd. Which makes it genuinely discordant and spooky for a psychological drama, dotted with very beautiful chilling descriptions... but the strange choice to make the novel carry itself entirely on dialogue means it runs out of steam very...
The Three Railway Engines
| Author | Wilbert Awdry |
| ISBN | 0434803774 |
This very first book about the now famous engines was originally published in 1945. Written by Awdry in 1943 to entertain his son, Christopher, who was suffering from measles at the time, this was the first book in what was to become The Railway Series.
Here are the original four stories about...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0195202198 |
This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well...
| Author | Kate Mosse |
| ISBN | 0752884506 |
It is March 1928. The Great War has been over for ten years, but Freddie still hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. Even now, on holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. When his car crashes, Freddie stumbles down the hills to a village nearby. There he meets Marie, a beautiful...
| Author | Biruté M.F. Galdikas |
| ISBN | 0316301868 |
From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a primitive camp, she became surrogate mother to a "family" of ex-captive orangutans - and gradually adjusted...
| Author | David Burnie |
| ISBN | 0756616344 |
Unrivaled in its breadth and visual impact, this unique guide sets out to illustrate, describe, and explain the incredible range of creatures that make up the animal kingdom. Exceptional Coverage. This authoritative volume starts with a clear introduction to the animal world, examining the reasons...
Forever Free: Elsa's Pride
| Author | Joy Adamson |
| ISBN | 0006328857 |
I've given this book 3/5 as I did with its prequels. Devastated by Elsa death and gutted by ending as it just kind of hit a wall and never got to find out what happened with cubs but I suppose that can't be helped. slightly easier to read than the previous two books but still annoyed by some of the unnecessary...
