SuitabookWilding
Isabella Tree
- Reading
- Read it in sections rather than rushing through. Pause at a map, timeline or wildlife fact file, and invite the child to explain how it connects with the main text; leave the activities for a separate practical session.
- Themes
- Rewilding as environmental change: The book chronicles the gradual rewilding of the Knepp Estate, a former working farm, and discusses the project’s challenges and benefits. The book appears to explain how one rewilding project developed and what its upkeep involves, using factual and visual material rather than presenting a fictional debate.
- Scientific understanding through accessible features: Scientific aspects are combined with captions, infographics, wildlife fact files, maps, timelines, photographs and illustrations. The book presents scientific and natural-history information through several formats, while retaining some content-heavy detail.
- Worth knowing
- Some pages are content-heavy and do not avoid scientific intricacy. A reader may need time to follow the terminology and connect the visual features with the explanations, especially when the book discusses the project’s upkeep and practical challenges.