A beautifully illustrated book that guides the reader through the seasons in Ireland. Explore nature in your back garden as well as in mountains, rivers, forests and sea. Learn about weird and wonderful natural phenomena, such as the metamorphosis from tadpole to frog; the red deer rut in autumn; or a starling flock in winter.

Introduces Irish birds, mammals, plants, insects, and amphibians. Overflowing with stunning photographs and engaging, child-friendly cartoons accompanied by clear accessible text.

A wonderful gift for children to help open their eyes to the natural world, from a real expert.

This book has been graded for interest at 5+ years.

There are 80 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2018 by O'Brien Press Ltd .

Gillian Perdue is a children's writer and dancing teacher. She previously worked as a primary school teacher for over fifteen years, and has always had a deep love for children's books. Gillian acted as chairperson of the Bisto Book Awards 1999-2000, and she has written resource materials for the use of real books in the classroom. Gillian's first book, Adam's Starling was written for older readers and won the Eilis Dillon Memorial Award 2002. The Irish Times described Adam's Starling as an impressive debut. Since then she has written three books in the successful O'Brien Panda Series - Conor's Cowboy Suit, Panda No. 23, Conor's Concert, Panda No. 25, and Conor's Canvas, Panda No. 35. The spirited and determined Conor, who loves to do things his way and his way only has proved to be extremely popular with younger readers. Gillian is married with two children, and lives in Dublin. Dubliner Barry Reynolds is a character designer/concept/visual development artist and illustrator who has worked on the Oscar-nominated, animated movie The Secret of Kells, on Aardman and Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas, and on Irish language graphic novels, An Tain and Deirdre agus Mic Uisnigh, where his artwork helped these Irish legends to a new readership. As a child, Barry saw The Jungle Book and announced then that he intended to be an artist, and he has realised that dream, apart from a few brief flirtations with wanting to be an astronaut, a dinosaur hunter and a zoologist . the last of which came in handy when working on The Great Big Book of Irish Wildlife. Juanita Browne, a Zoology graduate with an MA in Media Studies, has almost 20 years' experience across television, radio, magazines, books, and newspapers. She works on natural history documentaries for television, including the multi-award-winning `Secret Life of the Shannon' and `On a River in Ireland', `Wild Cities' and `Wild Ireland'. She has also worked on children's wildlife television shows for RTE, including `Shutterbugs' and `Wild Things. ' Juanita has produced two radio documentary series for RTE Radio 1, titled `Nature on One', consisting of 16 half-hour documentaries. Juanita's books include `Ireland's Mammals' (2005); `Kildare's Natural Heritage' (2008), `Put the Kettle On - the Irish love affair with tea' (2013); and `My First Book of Irish Animals' (2014), which was shortlisted for the Literacy Association of Ireland Children's Book Award 2015. Juanita also edits Biodiversity Ireland, the magazine of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. Her latest job involves working with the National Biodiversity Data Centre, on a project called the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan - conserving bees, bumblebees and the wildflowers, hedgerows they depend on. Dubliner Barry Reynolds is a character designer/concept/visual development artist and illustrator who has worked on the Oscar-nominated, animated movie The Secret of Kells, on Aardman and Sony Pictures Animation's Arthur Christmas, and on Irish language graphic novels, An Tain and Deirdre agus Mic Uisnigh, where his artwork helped these Irish legends to a new readership. As a child, Barry saw The Jungle Book and announced then that he intended to be an artist, and he has realised that dream, apart from a few brief flirtations with wanting to be an astronaut, a dinosaur hunter and a zoologist . the last of which came in handy when working on The Great Big Book of Irish Wildlife.