Explore the secrets of the forest!
When you walk in the woods, it's the trees that you notice. But a forest is so much more than trees! In this book, you get behind the bark and beyond the leaves, where the secrets of the forest are waiting for you to discover them.
You will read about the bee that makes perfume for its partner, and the mushroom that is faster than a rifle bullet. You learn about the tree of death and the zombie snail, about frogs and smelly feet mushrooms. And the mummy trees that never rot. The secrets of the forest are the kind of secrets that are nice to share.
The book is richly illustrated with the beautiful water color pictures by Nina Marie Andersen.
This book is suitable for all children who are curious about nature – and all adults who want to read about nature and explore it together with them.
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Nina Marie Andersen (ill.)
Photo: Celina Øier
Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She has a Doctorate degree in conservation biology, lectures on nature management and forest biodiversity, has been appointed Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences at SLU in Sweden and received the Award for Excellence in Communication of Science from The Research Council of Norway. Her debut book Terra Insecta, was nominated for the Brage Prize, it was on the Sunday Times bestseller list and selected as one of the ten most important books about science by The Smithsonian in the US. Tapestries of Life, was nominated for the Critics' Prize and Forest was nominated for the Brage Prize and the Booksellers' Prize.Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
Nina Marie Andersen (b. 1988), is an artist and illustrator. She earned a bachelor's degree in aesthetic subjects at USN, the University of South-Eastern Norway, and debuted as a book illustrator in 2019.
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Other titles
Forests. On trees, people and thousands of other phenomenal species (Fall 2023) Insects.Learn to recognize and protect the insects around you (2021)
Tapestries of Life (2020)
The Sloth and the Sloth Moth ( 2020) Beetles, bugs and butterflies (2019)
Terra Insecta. The little ones that make the world go ‘round (2018)
