Finding Home
Amazing Places Animals Live
Published on 20. June 2024
Book
Hardback
48 pages
978-1-5266-3828-1 (ISBN)
Description
*Longlisted for the 2025 Children's Wrainwright Prize for Non-Fiction*
Take a tour of 20 unforgettable animal homes: unearth polar bear dens deep beneath the Arctic snow, soar above eagle nests as big as cars and marvel at the remoras that make themselves comfortable on the ocean's deadliest predators.
Finding Home is a celebration of animals and their drive to survive no matter the odds - finding shelter in every nook and cranny on Earth, from the obvious to the unusual. With rich, vivid non-fiction storytelling and arresting illustrations, this is an essential collection for anyone fascinated by animals and the wild ways they live.
A stunning sequel from Mike Unwin and Jenni Desmond, the internationally bestselling duo behind Migration.
'Evocative' - Armadillo Magazine
Take a tour of 20 unforgettable animal homes: unearth polar bear dens deep beneath the Arctic snow, soar above eagle nests as big as cars and marvel at the remoras that make themselves comfortable on the ocean's deadliest predators.
Finding Home is a celebration of animals and their drive to survive no matter the odds - finding shelter in every nook and cranny on Earth, from the obvious to the unusual. With rich, vivid non-fiction storytelling and arresting illustrations, this is an essential collection for anyone fascinated by animals and the wild ways they live.
A stunning sequel from Mike Unwin and Jenni Desmond, the internationally bestselling duo behind Migration.
'Evocative' - Armadillo Magazine
Reviews / Votes
A huge amount of fascinating information is conveyed as much by the stunning illustrations as by the succinct, informative text. This is a glorious book. * BookTrust * Finding Home is a book to return to, to share and to savour. * Best Books for Schools * ...a lovely splash of the natural world ... a library necessity and very much welcomed by the young reader beginning to go beyond the superficial with animals. * Armadillo Magazine * Paired with gorgeous watercolor illustrations, entries about each animal provide unique insight into their means of survival. A strong addition wherever animal and ecology books are popular. * School Library Journal Reviews * Graceful and accurately detailed ... Natural engineering at its most astonishing. * Kirkus * Mike Unwin and illustrator Jenni Desmond ... know just how to make children's precious imaginations soar. -- Best Children's Books of 2018 * The Guardian on MIGRATION * This non-fiction picture book is a beautifully illustrated, fact-filled goldmine * Children's Book and Media Review on MIGRATION * Each double-page spread summons an outstanding example of migration. We've seen many of them before, such as the epic flights of arctic terns and wandering albatross, but others are less well known * Redeemed Reader on MIGRATION * Desmond's art, created with watercolour, acrylic, ink, pencil, and pencil crayon, incorporates a paragraph of additional information about each species. It is her images that make this oversize album stand out * Kirkus on MIGRATION *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 9 years
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 313 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
698 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-3828-1 (9781526638281)
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Persons
Mike Unwin, a UK Travel Writer of the Year, is the author of more than 30 books on the subject, including the Encyclopedia of Birds (Bloomsbury) and Southern African Wildlife (Bradt).
Jenni Desmond won the 2015 Best Emerging Talent Award and her debut Red Cat, Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her moving title The Polar Bear became a 'New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book' of the year.
Jenni Desmond won the 2015 Best Emerging Talent Award and her debut Red Cat, Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her moving title The Polar Bear became a 'New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book' of the year.