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This offers lively, illustrated fact-finding about animals’ unusual abilities, habitats and survival. It suits browsing and dipping in, while its dense presentation may make sustained independent reading more demanding.

This is an imaginative animal adventure with a clear home-and-exploration shape, enriched by detailed wildlife imagery and factual material about a real rat and its rainforest habitat.

A visually rich introduction to freshwater, moving from scientific foundations to living habitats and worldwide challenges. Its final practical section invites readers to connect large environmental questions with choices at home and in their communities.

This is an ocean adventure about attempting something others doubt, preparing carefully, coping with difficult conditions and discovering capability. It also brings ocean wildlife and pollution into the story through Lucy’s classmates.

This is an outdoor adventure about a child investigating her grandmother’s disappearance, helping eagles in difficulty and discovering a stronger sense of belonging in the mountain community.

A resourceful teenager creates a solitary life in the Catskills, learning through observation, library research and practice. The story combines practical wilderness detail with an imaginative challenge to ordinary ideas about comfort and possessions.

A practical, illustrated introduction to habitats and conservation, moving between wildlife facts and achievable actions. It may help children connect distant environmental concerns with things they can do closer to home.

A hands-on introduction to four environmental figures, combining short factual material with scenes children can push, pull and slide. It offers a starting point for noticing different kinds of environmental work.

A gentle introduction to rainforest wildlife through baby animals, their care and development. Photographs support the factual text, while species-based questions offer natural stopping points for shared looking and discussion.

The book presents several features associated with summer, including weather, wildlife, clothes and holidays, alongside illustrations and short text.

This is a quiet story about bereavement, attention and connection with the natural world. Its visual storytelling invites readers to notice small details alongside Poppy, while the mother–daughter relationship gives the discoveries emotional purpose.

Expect a reflective, nature-rich memoir rather than a conventional plot: wildlife observation, campaigning, family relationships, autism, school difficulties and changes at home unfold across a year.

A detailed garden-year book that blends children’s activities with practical information. Its pleasures are observation, making and growing together, supported by illustrations, recipes and ideas that can extend beyond the page.

Expect an imaginative, creature-filled adventure centred on finding sanctuary. Friendship, loyalty, courage and environmental loss sit alongside danger, threatening creatures and occasional insulting language.

A brisk environmental adventure about a reluctant visit becoming a relationship with a grandad, a local stream and its wildlife. Kyle’s growing responsibility gives the story an encouraging focus on courage, care and standing up for a place.

A values-led guide linking everyday choices with animal welfare and environmental effects. It ranges from food, clothing and beauty to pets, zoos, wildlife, insects, waste and protest, combining information with suggestions for action.

A determined scientist and her crew travel through icy Arctic waters seeking a creature no one has seen. The story’s visual mystery is paired with observations of animals, ice, equipment and shipboard work.

A survival adventure built around two sisters, a forbidden rewilded landscape and the challenge of finding a route home. Its imagined future also brings together wildlife, environmental change and questions about human access to nature.