National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear: 70 Everyday Ways to Save Our Planet

By Author / Illustrator

Dr Jess French, Angela Keoghan

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Publisher

Nosy Crow Ltd

ISBN

9781788007078

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

03-02-2022

Synopsis

Learn how you can save endangered animals and make the world a better place, too! From beetles and butterflies to puffins and polar bears, animals and habitats all over the world need our protection. In this beautifully illustrated book, children (and adults!) can learn about 13 different habitats - gardens, hedgerows, heathlands, woodlands, highlands, wetlands, the coastline, freshwater, oceans, savannahs, jungles and mountains - and simple everyday ways we can help protect them.

Find out how to help hedgehogs in your own back garden or spread the word about endangered animals further from home, as you discover all the little things you can do to make a big difference. Including 70 everyday ways you can save our planet! Engaging text by Dr Jess French, presenter of Minibeast Adventure with Jess on CBeebies, with artwork by super-talented Angela Keoghan, illustrator of Inspector Brunswick and the Case of the Missing Eyebrow.**As seen on Channel 4 Sunday Brunch** Finalist for the Best Children's Publication award at the ACE Best Product Awards 2019

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Reviews

How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear a lovely, bright and appealing non-fiction book which has been written in conjunction with the National Trust. It gives lots of simple and practical ways children can help protect wildlife and the environment. It ranges from common animals children will find in their gardens or nearby fields and woods such as butterflies, hedgehogs and doves to more exotic animals found further afield, such as snow leopards, orangutans and cicadas.

Each page presents key facts about a different habitat and includes an illustrated fact file about the animals who live there. It also suggests ways children can help look after that habitat, such only eating fish that are included on the Sustainable Fish List to prevent stocks becoming depleted or using a Bag for Life. The illustrations break up the text nicely and feature a diverse group of children so that all readers feel included.

Due to the amount of information on each page I would suggest this book is suitable for supported reading with Year One's but will more likely be enjoyed by independent readers aged 7 to 10. It would make a perfect gift for the junior environmentalist in your life or a valuable addition to a school library or classroom bookcase.

64 pages / Reviewed by Wendy Kelly, teacher