Bee Love
All bees, including the beloved bumblebee, are in trouble and need our help. Since the Second World War the demands on agricultural land...
The Plastic Bag Tree
By Michael Rosen A poem I wrote on a train. I was looking at the trees by the side of the track and as it's Autumn, the leaves have...
Rewild Your Child
The benefits of taking children into wild places may seem obvious: fresh air, exercise, being able to recount the names of plants and...
Travel to a Truly Wild Place with Wolf Brother
Wolf Brother is set 6,000 years ago in the wild forests and mountains of the stone age. The young protagonist, Torak, is an orphan,...
In Remembrance of Species Lost
Ask children about extinction and they will tell you about the dodo and the dinosaurs, but extinction is not an event from our distant...
The Noises of the Wild Can Be A Child's First 'Words'
Children love songs and rhymes that involve animal sounds and they love to imitate animals when they come across their pictures in books...