Natural World

by Wood, Amanda; Jolley, Mike; Davey, Owen

• ISBN13: 9781847807823
• ISBN10: 1847807828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-07-12
• Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions

Summary

The award-winning Curiositree: Natural World explores, through 67 exquisitely illustrated charts, the myriad ways in which plants and animals have adapted to survive.

Discover the interconnectedness of the natural world and learn why living things look and behave the way they do in a series of visually compelling information charts, maps, and cutaways, all illustrated in a nostalgic, vintage style.

Packed with incredible facts about the natural world and the animals that populate it, the whole family will enjoy the full-page spreads grouped into the categories of habitats, species, and adaptations.

The jacket of this large-format book unfolds to a huge wall poster showing the brilliant adaptations of a range of birds. Use the colored ribbons like a bookmark, or to mark your place so you can return to pages that you found especially interesting.

Celebrate the extraordinary resourcefulness and resilience of the natural world with amazing facts about:

• Habitats, ecosystems, and biodiversity
• Migrations, from the wildebeest of Africa to the red crabs of Christmas Island
• All types of camouflage, from predator-dazing zebra stripes to the fur of the Artic fox, which changes to white in winter to match the snow
• Life in the rain forest, the “lungs of our planet”
• All sorts of seeds and their variety of ingenious designs
• Life cycles of creatures, from butterflies to the curious axolotl (a type of salamander)

As the human species, Homo sapiens, is challenged now to find ways to live and survive in harmony with nature, curiosity will provide the answers. So, set out on your own adventure in this book, and discover why the natural world is worthy of your unending curiosity.

Also available from the Curiositree series: Human World.

Author Biography

Amanda Wood began her career in illustration at the Natural History Museum, London, and went on to be the founding Editor and Publisher of Templar for more than 30 years. In her time there, she published and nurtured numerous Greenaway winners, and edited and wrote groundbreaking series such as The Ologies, which have sold over 19 million-copies worldwide. Today she writes and runs her own small press from her home in Surrey.

Mike Jolley has worked as an Art Director in children’s books for over 25 years. He also sells artwork made from found objects, under the name ‘Box 2’. It was during one of his many junk shop visits that the idea of using midcentury school information charts for Curiositree first took shape. He lives on a cliff overlooking the English Channel.

Owen Davey is an award-winning freelance illustrator living and working in the UK. His work has been published in every continent except Antarctica.

Table of Contents

Introduction
CHART No.1 Living Things
CHART No.2 The Living World
CHART No.3 A Guide to Animal and Plant Groups
CHART No.4 What Is a Habitat?
CHART No.5 World Habitats
CHART No.6 The Fight for Survival
CHART No.7 Amazing Mammals, Great and Small
CHART No.8 Skeletons and Skulls
CHART No.9 The Blue Whale
CHART No.10 Micro-Creatures
CHART No.11 Animals on the Move
CHART No.12 Life at the Ends of the Earth
CHART No.13 Surprising Penguins
CHART No.14 All About Beaks and Feet
CHART No.15 What Is a Bird?
CHART No.16 All About Feathers
CHART No.17 How to Hide
CHART No.18 Chameleon—Master of Color
CHART No.19 What Is a Reptile?
CHART No.20 Desert Life
CHART No.21 The Mighty Saguaro
CHART No.22 Super Spines
CHART No.23 Bewildering Beetles
CHART No.24 Life in Tropical Rain Forests
CHART No.25 Who Lives Here?
CHART No.26 The Curious Aye-Aye
CHART No.27 Living in the Dark
CHART No.28 Super-Powered Owls
CHART No.29 Who’s in the Tree?
CHART No.30 The Secret Life of Plants
CHART No.31 All About Trees
CHART No.32 Leaf Shapes
CHART No.33 Food Chains and Webs
CHART No.34 Extraordinary Hunters
CHART No.35 Spiders and Their Webs
CHART No.36 Interesting Insects
CHART No.37 Flowering Plants
CHART No.38 All Sorts of Seeds
CHART No.39 Life in the Honeybee Hive
CHART No.40 Animal Architects
CHART No.41 A River Journey
CHART No.42 Who Lives Here?
CHART No.43 Swamp Life
CHART No.44 All About Amphibians
CHART No.45 What’s in the Pond?
CHART No.46 Wild Romance
CHART No.47 Heavenly Dancers
CHART No.48 All Kinds of Nests
CHART No.49 All Kinds of Eggs
CHART No.50 The Peculiar Platypus
CHART No.51 Dancing Sea Horses
CHART No.52 Living Together
CHART No.53 Fantastic Fish
CHART No.54 A Perfect Partnership
CHART No.55 Marine Invertebrates
CHART No.56 Ocean Layers
CHART No.57 Creatures of the Deep
CHART No.58 The Blue-Ringed Octopus
CHART No.59 Warning Colors
CHART No.60 The Art of Disguise
CHART No.61 Butterflies and Moths
CHART No.62 Two Lives in One
CHART No.63 Surviving the Seasons
CHART No.64 On Top of the World
CHART No.65 Who Lives Here?
CHART No.66 The Life of a Log
CHART No.67 Our Changing Planet
Index