2024
I hesitated to put his book on this site even though it is marketed as a children’s book and indeed I purchased it as such. In fact, anyway, it wouldn’t be out of place in a primary or secondary school library though interest in it would be restricted to those who are passionate about the environment.
Primarily, though, I would define this as a picture book for adults – a rather odd concept in the UK though this is a strong genre in France and Belgium and other French-speaking countries. The voice here is of one adult speaking to another. But children can often understand adults.
Isabella Tree and her husband Charles decided to rewild their 3,500 acre farm in West Sussex over twenty years ago.
The book opens with a note form the illustrator about her experience of working at Knepp. After a brief introduction by Isabella Tree we are given an outline history of the farm including the all import years form 2000 up to the present day.
There is a lot of information about what happened and all of this is illustrated in detail. Pictures really give us more detail about processes and indeed what everything looks like. So, as in a picture book for pre-schoolers the pictures add to the information in the text, expect that this is non-fiction. The last few pages contain ideas for what we can do in our own environment.
There is a useful glossary at the end and then a list of further resources. This would be very helpful for a student who is conducting a project about rewilding.
The book, in hard back, and large format is 96 pages long. It uses a serif font but the text is ragged right. Each section of text is short but packed with information.
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