The Variety of Life by Nicola Davies

The Variety of Life by Nicola DaviesOur planet is full of life! Did you know there are 400,000 species of beetle but only eight species of bear? This stunning book explores the extraordinary diversity of the natural world and profiles some of its most surprising creatures. A glorious celebration of diversity within the Animal Kingdom by non fiction specialist Nicola Davies, illustrated by rising star Lorna Scobie. There is something to delight on every page with fascinating facts about

shows up as a student and

After a century in the shadow of the internal combustion engine

plants' behavioural quirks and curveball tips

for readers of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell

powerful and moving

Seb Braun (illustrator of Spinderella by Julia Donaldson

The friends decide to form the Woodland Explorers Club

The Sleepwalkers is horrifying in the best possible way

This is a story about the beauty of climbing into a book

but then there’s a killing and a kidnapping and the British government is presented with a shocking ultimatum

UK's bestselling Children's & Young Adult Non-Fiction author since records began

it moves so confidently between lives and epochs it easy not to realise at first how cleverly it's put together