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Nicola Davies

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female

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http://www.nicola-davies.com

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Children's Books, Nonfiction

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"I was very small when I saw my first dolphin," says zoologist Nicola Davies, recalling a seminal visit with her father to a dolphin show at the zoo. Enchanted at the sight of what she called the "big fish" jumping so high and swimming so fast, she determined right then that she would meet the amazing creatures again "in the wild, where they belonged." And indeed she did--as part of a pair of scientific expeditions, one to Newfoundland at the age of eighteen and another to the Indian Ocean a year later. In WILD ABOUT DOLPHINS, Nicola Davies describes her voyages in a firsthand account filled with fascinating facts and captivating photographs of seven species of dolphins in action.

Nicola Davies's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for studying...more "I was very small when I saw my first dolphin," says zoologist Nicola Davies, recalling a seminal visit with her father to a dolphin show at the zoo. Enchanted at the sight of what she called the "big fish" jumping so high and swimming so fast, she determined right then that she would meet the amazing creatures again "in the wild, where they belonged." And indeed she did--as part of a pair of scientific expeditions, one to Newfoundland at the age of eighteen and another to the Indian Ocean a year later. In WILD ABOUT DOLPHINS, Nicola Davies describes her voyages in a firsthand account filled with fascinating facts and captivating photographs of seven species of dolphins in action.

Nicola Davies's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for studying animals of all kinds has led her around the world--and fortunately for young readers, she is just as excited about sharing her interests through picture books. The zoologist's latest offering puts a decidedly quirky twist on her years of experience: POOP: A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE UNMENTIONABLE is a fun, fact-filled guide to the fascinating world of poop across species. "As a zoologist, you are never far from poop!" the writer explains. "I've baked goose poop in an oven with my dinner, looked at bat poop under the microscope, and had my T-shirt stained pink with blue-whale poop. I was obviously fated to write this book."

The exceptional combination of Nicola Davies's zoological expertise and her first-rate children's writing is apparent in her remarkable catalog of award-winning titles. Her first book with Candlewick Press, BIG BLUE WHALE, was hailed by American Bookseller as an "artfully composed study" offering "language exactly appropriate for four- to seven-year-olds and precisely the right amount of information." In ONE TINY TURTLE, Nicola Davies's clear, compelling narrative follows the life of the rarely seen loggerhead turtle, which swims the oceans for thirty years and for thousands of miles in search of food, only to return, uncannily, to lay her eggs on the very beach where she was born. The author's next book, BAT LOVES THE NIGHT, is a tenderly written ode to a much-misunderstood flying mammal, the pipistrelle bat, while SURPRISING SHARKS--winner of a BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK Honor Award--contains unexpected facts about another one of the planet's most infamous animals.

When she is not off on scientific expeditions, Nicola Davies lives in a cottage in Somerset, England, where she is lucky enough to have pipistrelle bats nesting in her roof.
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Average rating: 3.95 · 545 ratings · 200 reviews · 56 distinct works

	One Tiny Turtle: Read and Wonder by Nicola Davies, Jane Chapman (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies, Mark Hearld (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable by Nicola Davies, Neal Layton (Illustrator) 4.37 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies, Salvatore Rubbino (Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Surprising Sharks (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Nicola Davies, James Croft (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little by Nicola Davies, Neal Layton (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Bat Loves the Night: Read and Wonder by Nicola Davies, Sarah Fox-Davies (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies, Neal Layton (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies, Michale Foreman (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	What's Eating You?: Parasites--The Inside Story by Nicola Davies, Neal Layton (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating: