What's Eating You? : Parasites, The Inside Story

Author: Nicola Davies

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Price : $16.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781406356649
Publisher : Walker Books, Limited
Imprint : Walker Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.221
Publication date : 01 March 2014
Dimensions : 28.80 cmmm X 24.80 cmmm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 16.99
Availability date : 01 January 2016
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Author : Nicola Davies
Series : Animal Science
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Illustrator : Neal Layton
Language : en
Dewey classification : 578.65
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Pages : 40
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Description

There is one group of creatures who live on or in the bodies of other animals - in skin, hair, fur, feathers, blood, guts, livers, hearts and lungs. They are parasites Uncover the secrets of their amazing life-cycles and dare yourself not to scratch or groan as you read.

Author description

Nicola Davies is an award-winning author, whose many books for children include The Promise, A First Book of Nature, Tiny, which won the 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science's prize for Excellence in Science (picture book category), Big Blue Whale, Dolphin Baby, and The Lion Who Stole My Arm. She graduated in zoology, studied whales and bats and then worked for the BBC Natural History Unit. Nicola lives in Abergavenny, Wales. Visit Nicola at www.nicola-davies.com.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.