The Andes of Peru Fickle skies, blue as a kingfisher’s wing, Crouching clouds casting cool shadows On gap-toothed, patchwork mountain...

The kids never tire of asking me: “What’s your favourite animal, Mum?” I can tell they’re disappointed when I say “Well, I love all of...

A recent article in The Guardian by SF Said, "Children's books are never just for children" (16 February 2026), lamented the lack of...

We’ve all heard of a pack of wolves, a colony of bats and a herd of deer, but other collective animal names are less well known and much...

This is a modest little poem I was moved to write one day after witnessing, what seemed to me, nothing short of a miracle at a place...

First published on http://blog.childrenandnature.org/2014/06/05/las-recompensas-del-aire-libre-en-peru-club-naturaninos-comparte-los-done...

This photo is of my collection of sea glass - sharp, jagged bits of bottle tumbled and tossed in the waves, rolled over and over in the...

First published on San Diego Zoo Global's Wildlife Field Notes blog The howler monkeys wake me up before my alarm clock does. For a...