Monday 20 May 2019

Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them Book Review And Giveaway (Sent by Wild Nature Press)

Wild Nature Press have two excellent book releases for children this spring and they've sent us a copy of each for review, plus I'll be giving away a copy to one of my readers. Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them is a beautiful hardback large scale book written by Stewart McPherson, and crammed with information and full colour images.

Perfect for any young nature lover, Amazing Pets lets you explore some of the more exotic and usual small creatures you can keep in your own home, sensibly and ethically, and gives you an idea of just what you'd need to look after them...

Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them Book cover with images of creatures

Recommended for readers aged around 8-12, Amazing Pets is split into sections, starting with 'Golden Rules'. This is a serious book for people who care about creatures and it's right that it starts with some simple rules to prevent anticipated errors which might end very badly.

Amazing Pets and how to keep them golden rules example page


Most of the Amazing Pets in this book are 'bugs' - Matises, Stick Insects, Butterflies & Moths, Beetles, Giant Millipedes, Triops and Giant Land Snails. Lovely.

Amazing Pets mantis page with images and blocks of text

The basics are covered, including what makes a creature part of the invertebrate or mollusc family, what they eat, how they grow, where they live naturally and tons more. Responsible petkeeping is always key and you aren't 'encouraged' as much as just given straightforward information.

Amazing Pets by Stewart McPherson example page showing invertibrates

My sons have found this book fascinating. My 10 year old keeps ants and would love something just a little bigger. There's so much information here that it can keep any youngster like him reading and learning for a long while. I can totally see the attraction. I now know a million facts about minibeasts and not-quite-so-mini beasts myself!

Childrens guide to keeping butterflies and moths

Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them is written by Stewart McPherson, and published by Wild Nature Press. Available to buy now 128 pages, priced £12.99rrp in large format full colour hardback from all good bookshops, including online at Amazon*. A really good book in our opinion at a very fair price. If Plants are more your thing, I've also reviewed Spectacular Plants & How To Grow Them


Wild Nature Press have also offered a copy of Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them for one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway is by Gleam form below. No entries are mandatory, but each extra task performed earns you extra entries into the random draw. Any data you enter will ONLY be used to administrate this giveaway and not stored or shared.

You can find a link to help with Gleam forms and see my other current UK Giveaways here. Full terms and conditions are at the bottom of the Gleam form. The giveaway is open to UK entrants only and will close at midnight Sunday 16th June 2019.

Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them Book Giveaway (Age 8-12 or older)

We were sent our copy of Amazing Pets & How To Keep Them by Stewart McPherson for review. *Amazon links are affiliate, which means I earn a few pence as a thank you for my time if you order through my link, but you don't pay any extra. I've jumbled up some of the text on photos so that robbers don't pinch it!

36 comments:

  1. Lizard tarantula cows - id have loads of i didn't have to clean !

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  2. A horse, a pig and a chicken.

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  3. A monkey, a llama and a sloth!

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  4. a monkey, a penguin and a sloth

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  5. tropical fish rabbits and hamster

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  6. I'd choose three puppies! I dare not choose something exotic as my partner wouldn't be happy 😂

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  7. I’ve have three dogs. They give back all the care you show them

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  8. Robert Mark Ward23 May 2019 at 05:06

    I would just have one, a Kangarillapig.

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  9. Giraffe ,Chimp and a Shark

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  10. It has to be cats everytime! Also a pony and llamas xx

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  11. If I could have any pet? I'd still have a dog because I adore them and then perhaps a few chickens so we could have fresh eggs and a couple of Chinchillas because they are adorable.

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  12. Cat, Dog, Hamster.

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  13. 3 dogs 3 cats 1 rabbit 2 Axolotls

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  14. Dog, cat and budgie. Maybe I would need a house with many rooms ( the Royals in Kensington Palace, where Prince William and Kate live has many rooms, and is paid for via Public Funds / British Taxpayers). As I am aware though I love these pets, they may not love and respect each other.

    So separate rooms for each pet could allow for Health and Safety for each pet, as well as individual, undisturbed time and place to pamper each pet.

    Dream On.

    Rachel Craig

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  15. A donkey to ride on, a parrot to talk to and a puppy to pet!

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  16. A horse, a frog and a guinea pig

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  17. A horse, a rooster and a tortoise

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  18. A panda, meerkat and pony :-)

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  19. Zebra finches. A parrot and some fish

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  20. I absolutely love elephants I'd want a baby , a chimpanzee and a Siberian White Husky Dog

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  21. guinea pigs, rabbits and African pygmy hedgehog

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  22. A horse, a monkey and a penguin.

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  23. sheep, dog and a horse

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  24. A monkey! they are so funny and cute

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  25. Chickens, ducks and a donkey.

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