A colourful and comical tour through the animal kingdom from award-winning author Mike Barfield and quirky cartoonist and illustrator Paula Bossio.
Featuring key habitats, including seas, forests, deserts and grasslands, this book uncovers the little-known but amazing adaptations, bonkers behaviour and cunning natural skills of the world’s most interesting animals. Each story is told from the animal’s own perspective. Covering creatures from all over the world, readers will meet flying snakes in the rainforest, vampire squid in the ocean and meerkats in the desert. This hilarious guide, full of fascinating facts, will entrance animal lovers everywhere, and reveal the wild lives of animals like no other.
Winner of the Hampshire Information Book award 2024
Publishing in 2024:
The Wild Life of Prehistoric Animals 9781780559322
Kids will love this hilarious fairy tale adventure packed with clever twists, familiar characters and page-turning fun.
The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
This is Book 1 in the The Wild Life Series. See all The Wild Life books here.
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Mike Barfield is a comic writer, cartoonist, poet and performer with 25 years' experience. He has worked in TV, radio, books, newspapers and magazines - as well as schools, libraries, museums and bookshops.
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