Breathing Places Book List 2006
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TRA Breathing Places Booklists: August 2006 The Reading Agency has produced this booklist to support work on the Note on Series: BBC Breathing Places Campaign. The TRA Breathing Places Booklist is There are an immense number of nature and wildlife guides available from a combination of non-fiction, fiction and poetry and covers: getting a range of publishers from the pocket-sized through to field and information and knowledge about as well as getting active and reading for photographic guides. You may want to consider looking at some of the pleasure around nature, wildlife and the environment. All titles on the following websites and adding in specific titles that would be relevant to booklist have been checked against Nielsen Bookfind and give the your own locality/region: author/editor, title, ISBN, format, price, publication date and distributor. www.collins.co.uk (Collins Wilde Guide Series, Gems, Pocket Guides, The TRA Breathing Places Booklist is split into the following categories: Field Guides, Nature Guides) 1. BIRDS: .................................................................................................... 3 www.field-studies-council.org (Illustrated Keys) www.newhollandpublishers.com (Field Guides) 2. RIVERS, PONDS, SEASHORE:............................................................. 3 www.oup.co.uk (Oxford Natural History Pocket Guides) 3. INSECTS AND BUGS:............................................................................ 4 www.sustrans.org.uk (Cycle trails/maps) www.wildguides.co.uk (Photographic guides, profits support conservation 4. WILDLIFE:............................................................................................... 4 charities) 5. TREES: ................................................................................................... 4 www.wildlifetrust.org.uk (The Wildlife Trusts Series) 6. FLOWERS AND FUNGI:......................................................................... 5 Note on Fiction/Short Story/Graphic Novel Titles: 7. GARDENS/GARDENING/ALLOTMENTS: ............................................. 5 This selection of titles is neither exhaustive nor extensive, but suggests some titles you may want to include as part of your Breathing Places 8. PARKS/WALKING/CYCLE TRAILS/WATERWAYS:.............................. 6 promotion. There is, obviously, a huge range of fiction titles that can be 9. ECOLOGY/RECYCLING/ORGANIC/SELF-SUFFICIENCY:.................. 6 used to support Breathing Places - you may want to consider bringing in further fiction/short story/graphic novel titles that are of specific relevance 10. NON-FICTION: (climate change/eco-theory/fair trade) ........................ 7 to you locally and/or regionally. 11. NARRATIVE NON-FICTION:................................................................ 8 Note on Parent’s Titles: 12. FICTION/SHORT STORIES/GRAPHIC NOVELS: ............................... 9 The selection of parent’s titles in the booklist are non-fiction with a focus on parent’s/carer’s getting information and getting active with their children 13. POETRY: INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS:.............................................. 9 around nature. Breathing Places will be the theme of the Summer Reading 14. POETRY ANTHOLOGIES: ................................................................. 10 Challenge 2007 and will offer a wide range of book titles for children. For more information on the Summer Reading Challenge email: 15. PARENT’S TITLES: (non-fiction) ........................................................ 10 [email protected] or [email protected] TRA Breathing Places Booklists: August 2006 p.2 Note on building in titles for emergent readers to link with Vital Acknowledgments: Link/BBC RaW: TRA would like to thank all those who have contributed to the development Many fiction and non-fiction titles have a high readability level - 13 – 14 of the Breathing Places reading promotion 2006, and in particular: readability and above and do not fit other key criteria that make a book Chris Baines; Jeremy Eastell; David Jamieson, BTCV; Graham Appleton, accessible for an emergent reader. If you are looking at working with British Trust for Ornithology; Lilias Fraser, The Scottish Poetry Library; emergent readers on Breathing Places it is worth checking the books you Graham Blight, The Woodlands Trust; Carol Ackroyd, Devon Libraries; will be using against the fiction and non-fiction Vital Link Stock Selection Mary Greenshields, Glasgow Libraries, Jane Mathieson, Time To Read Criteria (downloadable from www.vitallink.org.uk). On the Vital Link North West library network; and Lesley Byers, Newquay Libraries. website you can also check the readability level of any given passage of text online. For appropriate fiction titles you may want to take a look at Development of Future Breathing Places Booklists: www.firstchoicebooks.org.uk (online database of titles that are appropriate for emergent readers). Non-fiction tends to be read in a different way TRA will be producing supplementary booklists as the BBC Breathing (dipping in to get information) and usually has plenty of photographs or Places campaign progresses. Please do let us know of any titles (non- fiction, fiction, poetry, short stories, graphic novels, titles for emergent illustrations to aid understanding, it can be more accessible as a format than narrative non-fiction and fiction. Non-fiction also tends to tap into readers/parents) that you are working with and which you think could go people’s interests and passions and can be a good starting-point for on a future list. Email: [email protected] engaging emergent readers with books and reading. TRA August 2006 TRA Breathing Places Display Materials: www.readingagency.org.uk The TRA Breathing Places display materials are branded with the appropriate BBC logo and provide a visible reading element to support this major national campaign. The display materials signpost the library as the reading place for adults to get good reads on, get informed about, and to get active around nature and ecology. The Breathing Places design shows a tree with people reading in it and books on branches – a library in a tree. The display materials include: banners, A3 headers, A4 posters, A6 postcards and 4 x outsize bookmarks, shaped like plant name tags, with nature tips from the naturalist Nick Baker. The promotion is printed on elemental chlorine free, recycled/sustainable paper using green inks (biodegradable, vegetable oil based inks). Breathing Places display materials are available to order online from www.readingagency.org.uk. These materials complement free Breathing Places resources available to libraries from the BBC – noticeboard headers, posters and stickers. TRA Breathing Places Booklists: August 2006 p.3 Author Title Publisher Format ISBN Price Pub Distributor date 1. BIRDS: Robert Burton Pocket Birdfeeder Handbook Dorling Kindersley pbk 1-4053-0250-X £5.99 2004 Penguin Books Ltd Dominic Couzens Identifying Birds by Behaviour Collins pbk 0-00-719923-6 £16.99 2005 HarperCollins Distribution Services Dominic Couzens Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Mitchell Beazley pbk 1-84000-270-0 £7.99 2000 LittleHampton Book Garden Birds Services Dominic Couzens Identifying British Birds Collins pbk 0-00-719922-8 £12.99 2005 HarperCollins Distribution Services Chris Du Feu The BTO Nestbox Guide BTO pbk 1-902576-81-0 £8.99 2003 British Trust for Ornithology Jim Flegg Time to Fly: Exploring Bird Migration BTO pbk 1-904870-08-2 £12.50 2004 British Trust for Ornithology Rob Hume RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe Dorling Kindersley pbk 1-4053-0753-6 £16.99 2006 Penguin Books Ltd Rob Hume Rob Hume, Life with Birds: Reflections of David & Charles pbk 0-7153-2557-4 £12.99 Nov-06 David & Charles a Naturalist Stephen Moss How to Birdwatch New Holland pbk 1-84537-457-6 £7.99 2006 LittleHampton Book Services Stephen Moss Garden Birds Collins pbk 0-00-717789-5 £8.99 2005 HarperCollins Distribution Services Stephen Moss The Garden Bird Handbook: How to New Holland pbk 1-84537-598-X £12.99 Oct-06 Littlehampton Book Attract, Identify and Watch the Birds in Services Your Garden Bill Oddie Bill Oddie's Introduction to Birdwatching New Holland pbk 1-84330-015-X £9.99 2006 LittleHampton Book Services Bill Oddie Bill Oddie's Birding Map of Britain and New Holland map 1-84537-318-9 £4.99 2006 LittleHampton Book Ireland Services Mike Toms BTO/CJ Garden BirdWatch Book BTO pbk 1-902576-73-X £9.99 2003 British Trust for Ornithology 2. RIVERS, PONDS, SEASHORE: Coast National Trust pbk 1-905400-38-1 £9.99 2006 HarperCollins Distribution Services Louise Bardsley The Wildlife Pond Handbook New Holland hbk 1-84330-111-3 £12.99 2003 Littlehampton Book Services Trevor Beebee Frogs and Toads Whittet Books pbk 1-873580-28-2 £7.99 1997 Book Systems Plus Ltd Andrew C Campbell Philip's Guide to Seashores and Shallow Philip's pbk 0-540-08747-5 £9.99 2005 Littlehampton Book Seas of Britain and Europe Services Peter Hayward Pocket Guide Seashore Collins pbk 0-00-219955-6 £16.99 1996 HarperCollins Distribution Services Rod/Ken Preston Matham Seashore Collins pbk 0-00-717859-X £4.99 2004 HarperCollins Distribution Services Lars Henrik-Olsen Small Freshwater Creatures OUP hbk 0-19-850798-4 £13.99 2001 OUP Distribution Services TRA Breathing Places Booklists: August 2006 p.4 Author Title Publisher Format ISBN Price Pub Distributor date 3. INSECTS AND BUGS: Nick Baker Nick Baker's Bug Book New Holland pbk 1-84330-149-0 £12.99 Nov-06 Littlehampton Book Services