Description: Author and editor
Curious Questions and Answers about Saving the Earth has featured in the United Nations Development Goals Book Club as well as the Summer Reading Challenge. This book is part of a series I developed with the superb team at Miles Kelly Publishing, and has lent itself to a range of topics – but this one has, of course, particular relevance as the world wakes up to the potential of climate change to impact all our lives.
As usual, I’ve travelled this year to see wildlife in action and do some research. I was given a fantastic project to work on by Michael O’ Mara Books – The Book of Animal Superheroes – and this gave me the chance to travel to India to find out more about Machli, the crocodile-killing tiger in Ranthambore National park. It was a great honour to meet some of the wildlife guards who had known Machli, but even more exciting were the tiger encounters.
Watching a tiger lounging in a cool pool just a few feet away was a truly moving experience. There were plenty of birds, deer and monkeys to observe too but seeing a shy sloth bear and her cub was an unexpected treat.