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Children's Books ~ Nature Detectives

Buy British Birds Handbook, British Wildlife Detectives' Handbook or Garden Detectives' Handbook,
and get a pair of 8x42 waterproof binoculars with coated optics and a 10 year guarantee
for our special offer price of £45 for both, with free UK delivery!!

British Birds Handbook British Birds Handbook
This handbook featuring 100 British and European garden and coastal birds is ideal for the young birdwatcher. A superb identififcation guide, it is also packed with information and things to do: Make a bird diary with sighting records, sketches and photos; Apply stickers to show you have spotted each of the featured birds; Use the pull-out poster for making quick identifications; Check the abundancy charts for when you might expect to spot birds.
Includes two tear-out posters and two sheets of stickers.
£9.99 including UK p&p or buy with 8x42 waterproof binoculars with 10 year guarantee for only £45 and free UK delivery - normal price £59.98!!
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British Wildlife Detectives' Handbook British Wildlife Detectives' Handbook
This fun guide helps children observe animals in many different habitats and encourages them to record their sightings. Each fact file provides key identification tips, labelled illustrations and photos.
The guide also teaches children to understand the changing seasons and the many different groups of animals that are living in Britain.
Includes: interactive write-in area for notes and pictures; Stickers to record progress; Full colour wildlife identification poster .
£9.99 including UK p&p or buy with 8x42 waterproof binoculars with 10 year guarantee for only £45 and free UK delivery - normal price £59.98!!
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Dinosaur Detectives' Handbook Dinosaur Detectives' Handbook
Packed with information on 50 individual dinosaurs. A scale-to-person feature shows how big each dinosaur was. The dino data box provides information on size, weight, fossil finds and pronunciation of names, and a locator map shows where fossils have been found. Every dinosaur is accompanied by its own super fact, and placed in its relevant era of Cretaceous, Triassic or Jurassic. There's also a write-in area for children to make notes and draw pictures. An identification poster is also included with two sticker sheets.
£7.99 including UK p&p
Garden Detectives' Handbook Garden Detectives' Handbook
This Handbook helps children explore garden wildlife, and encourages them to record their sightings. Each of the 100 factfiles provides identification tips accompanied by labelled illustrations and photos. This guide also teaches children about the changing seasons, and gives hints on how to attract wildlife.
Covers trees & shrubs, flowers & grasses, reptiles & amphibians, birds, mammals & bugs. Includes photos of wildlife habitats, posters & stickers. Spiral bound with full colour illustrations throughout.
£9.99 including UK p&p or buy with 8x42 waterproof binoculars with 10 year guarantee for only £45 and free UK delivery - normal price £59.98!!
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Nature Detectives' Handbook Nature Detectives' Handbook
Part of the Nature Detectives project, designed by the Woodland Trust to bring phenology to the under 18s, this beautifully illustrated handbook allows children and adults to identify and record 50 species of wildlife. Children are encouraged to follow in the footsteps of renowned wildlife expert and television personality, Ray Mears, by exploring and understanding the world around them. Also, vital phenological data enables the reader to track the changing natural environment and take part in a national scientific project.
£7.99 including UK p&p
Space Detectives' Handbook Space Detectives' Handbook
This handbook helps you find objects in the night sky and encourages you to record your sightings. Included are detailed fact files about the Sun, Moon, planets & stars, providing spotting tips, labelled illustrations and photos. Learn how to use maps of the night sky, how to spot the planets and discover how to study the Sun safely.
Includes: photos of space rocks, galaxies, nebulae and more; pull-out star charts poster; 88 constellation stickers; write-in areas to record your sightings and include your photos; glossary and useful websites.
£7.99 including UK p&p
Tree Detectives' Handbook Tree Detectives' Handbook
This handbook is a fun guide to help you identify 50 trees and shrubs. With vital statistics, identification tips and detailed illustrations. Use the interactive boxes to record your sightings, and place the stickers when you complete the activities. Join the Ancient Tree Hunt and help the Woodland Trust find the oldest trees in the UK.
Contains stickers and pull out Champion Trees of Britain poster; glossary, factfiles and photo files plus notes section for each species; wire bound with full colour illustrations throughout.
£7.99 including UK p&p
Wildflower Detectives' Handbook Wildflower Detectives' Handbook
Building on a successful series, this beautiful handbook enables readers to identify more than 40 wildflower species. Working closely with The Wildlife Trusts’ “Wildlife Watch” initiative, readers are encouraged to personalize their handbook by adding photos, making notes, placing the stickers provided and logging their sightings on the educational website. Species factfiles are illustrated by Bridgette James of The Society of Botanical Artists and include statistics, identification tips and photofiles showing flowers in their natural habitats. Feature spreads introduce plant anatomy, provide information on where to find wildflowers and show readers how to make their own wildflower garden, while the pull-out poster showcases wildflower hotspots.
£7.99 including UK p&p
152 WILD things to do 152 WILD things to do
When did you last climb a tree? Pick some blackberries? Spot a bird of prey? Collect shells on a beach? Plant flowers to help bumble bees?
'152 WILD things to do' is exactly what you need to reconnect with nature around the UK.
Whether at home, in your local area or at Wildlife Trust nature reserves, this book is packed with inspirational ideas to get outside and see the best of the UK's wildlife and countryside.
"There are enough ideas in the book to keep anyone - particularly families and children - outdoors all year...."
Patrick Barkham - Guardian.co.uk Read the rest of the article here
£12.99 with free UK p&p
Bat Detective Book & CD - not suitable for younger children
This book, together with the accompanying CD, provides an essential reference for bat enthusiasts who would like to gain or improve their skills in identifying British bats, using a bat detector. The material is suitable for those who have just acquired a bat detector as well as for more experienced bat workers. The sounds of 13 bat species are included in the 48 tracks of the CD. This is the first ever comprehensive compilation of British bat recordings on compact disc.
£25 including UK p&p

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