This eagerly awaited sequel to Winter Sleep and Busy Spring, Wild Summer: Life in the Heat is another beautiful picture book about nature.
Just like Busy Spring, Wild Summer mixes non-fiction and fiction. The story of the hottest season is told through a child and her grandfather’s summer walk along the coast. As they walk through a meadow, a stream, sandy heathland, pine woods, cliffs and a rocky cove, the girl learns the ways summer affects each habitat and its wildlife. And there’s balance here, between the season of plenty and the reality of climate change.
Sean Taylor and ecologist Alex Morss team up again with illustrator Cinyee Chiu. Frances Lincoln 2022.