You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. And you don't have to worry about the Kids Reading it beacsue there's no dirty pictures or anything else really. Full of double entendre, it forces the adult reader to recount this story to a child, who will likely not get the innuendo, with a straight face. Derek Gow is a man after my own heart, with no interest in diplomacy, but with single-minded determination and a clear vision: to bring beavers back, and to bring nature back, to Britain. She is the author of The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (2012) and has curated natural history exhibits for the Museum of Vancouver and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia.

The authors provide an update on their experiences direct from the field, the quarantine area and the veterinary table. Widely hunted for their fur, beavers were a driving force behind the colonization of North America and remain Canada’s national symbol today.She is Field Operations Manager for the Scottish Beaver Trial and is currently undertaking her PhD in beaver health and welfare. To get started you’ll need to contact us with your book’s detailed synopsis, your ideas, key themes, and preferred style. He is professor in behaviour ecology at Telemark University College, Norway, and was part of the advisory board of the Scottish Beaver Trial.

Derek is a naturalist with a strong case of beaver fever shared effusively with equal doses of charm, belligerence and artistic genius. Despite the text being only 44 pages long, the authors cover everything you might want to know about these fascinating rodents. Another in the Animal series of handsome, pocket-sized studies of interesting animals and their relations with humanity down the ages. It's part of a series of 'Reach Around Books' which are riddled with double entendres, meaning you can read to your children without being bored out of your mind. With their unique scaly tail, chainsaw teeth, powerful scent and astonishing architectural prowess, beavers are unlike any other creature in the world.When Sumguyen threw a five into his tip jar the artist looked up, thanked him with a nod and said, "That is a beautiful beard. The wicked witch Oyin has imprisoned most of the island’s inhabitants in Beaver Towers, and when her powers are complete she will put them to death and rule the island. This book presents a case for our future coexistence with beavers by providing factual information on this species that has now passed from national memory, covering the biology, behaviour and ecology of the Eurasian beaver in a British context, from their early history in archaeology and folklore to their contemporary field signs in the wild.

Wherever she goes, it seems to be the centre of attention, more for its bushy coat than for any other reason. Is it possible to combine the increasingly dangerous world of the adventure-park business with the unpredictability of life in a blended family? This isn’t really a children’s book but I feel like most children will miss the double entendres (so it should be OK for them to read this) which means this would be a really funny book for the entire family to read together (and make storytime more fun for the parents).

It is illustrated with many photos of the animal and its habitat, with maps showing its distribution and tables of the plants it eats and the signs it leaves. A hugely entertaining book about overcoming the human obstacles to the natural regeneration/nature self-healing we so desperately need on every square inch of the earth right now. One parent shared the revelatory book in a post on Facebook which subsequently went viral, receiving more than 6,000 shares and 10,000 comments - so that's a lot of people who have seen Brenda's beaver now.