Sharpens observational awareness
By guiding children to explore the hidden life on and around trees like fungi, skinks and insects, the book helps them practice noticing smaller details and patterns in nature.
Ages 7+
The Living Tree: A New Zealand Habitat
$24.99
Description
The Living Tree: A New Zealand Habitat offers children a close‑up look at a tree and everything that lives in, on, and around it from roots deep in the earth to birds in the branches. With rich photographs and clear text, the book explores New Zealand’s native and introduced trees and the remarkable animals, insects, plants, and fungi they support.
It shows how a tree isn’t just a plant, but a whole world of relationships, colour, movement and change across seasons. This is a brilliant choice for young nature lovers ready to start seeing the forest, not just the trees.
Educator Approved
Builds understanding of interdependent ecosystems
As readers see how trees support all kinds of life, they begin to understand how habitats connect and how change in one part of the system can ripple through the rest.
Encourages respectful engagement with nature
By presenting the rich web of life around trees, the book nurtures a sense of care and stewardship, helping children learn they can be guardians of their local environment.
Details
- Paperback
- Author: Dave Gunson
- Publisher: David Bateman Ltd, 2025
- Pages: 48
- Book dimensions: 265mm x 210mm
- ISBN: 9781776891337
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