Nicola Davies

"Our planet is always turning. It may be midnight in London, but in different time zones other living things are waking up, ready to hunt or feed or fight. As the clock strikes twelve, two sisters are spirited away on a journey to glimpse, in the span of a moment, extraordinary biodiversity: a mother polar bear and her cubs hunting seals in Svalbard, tiny turtles in India following the moon toward the sea, and enormous whale sharks gulping plankton...

An illustrated treasury of poems reflects the experiences of children as they encounter nature for the first time.

The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of...

Following his mother, a baby dolphin learns about life under the sea, from catching his first fish to developing his own unique whistle.

Looks at all the different microbes that inhabit the Earth and examines the varied jobs they do.

Every spring, birds small enough to fit in the palm of your hand fly two thousand miles north to lay their eggs. This is the story of one tiny hummingbird's amazing journey.

Still reeling from his mother's death and against his father's wishes, Javier secretly rescues and cares for an albatross who needs to find her way home, in this beautiful story of a father and a son, of grief and reconnection.

When a young boy moves from his home in Italy to Wales, the only thing that cheers him up are the racing pigeons that Mr. Evans keeps in a loft behind his house.

"Even in the middle of the city, you'll find ducks down on the river, quacking and eating all day long! Follow the ducks as they preen and splash, showing off their fine feathers and bobbing upside down for food-and find out just how fascinating our feathered neighbors can be!"--Dust jacket.