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Wednesday, 27 March 2019

"Wilderness: Jungle, Rain Forest, Tundra, Taiga, Savanna, and Desert" by Mia Cassany and Marcos Navarro (Prestel Publishing)

Posted by ReadItDaddy at March 27, 2019 Labels: , , ,
Here's a truly stunning book that takes us across the globe to a huge variety of different environments and ecosystems, where many plants and animals thrive despite often harsh conditions.

"Wilderness: Jungle, Rainforest, Tundra, Taiga, Savanna and Desert" by Mia Cassany and Marcos Navarro is a perfect title for young naturalists who love to find out more about our amazing planet.

When you take a look inside the book, you'll instantly be wowed by the stunning illustrations and simple descriptive text that gives valuable insights into each habitat, and the amazing things that live there.

Children may know some of the animals inside this book but will also learn about some quirky new ones too.

This captivating book brings the natural world into sharp focus. Beautifully colored and intricately detailed illustrations depict places as exotic and wide-ranging as Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park, Russia's Sikhote-Alin mountain range, the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, Daintree National Park in Australia, the Mexican desert, and China's bamboo forests. 


The animals that live in these remote places, cleverly hidden in the trees, plants, and flowers, create a marvelous challenge for young readers to find and identify. 



Each spread contains more than twenty different species including birds, snakes, frogs, iguanas, leopards, tigers, gorillas, pandas, and wolves. 



The back of the book is filled with additional information about the animals and their habitats. Young readers will find much to discover, explore, and learn in this absorbing celebration of our planet and the amazing creatures we share it with.

Sum this book up in a sentence: A phenomenally vibrant book detailing some of the amazing habitats where natural life thrives across the globe, specially designed to really hook in young readers as they learn amazing facts and information about some of the most endangered species in our world. 

"Wilderness" by Mia Cassany and Marcos Navarro is out now, published by Prestel (kindly supplied for review).