Janet Hunt and Rob Lucas: From Weta to Kauri

This wonderful new guidebook to the New Zealand forest is packed with information for young nature lovers (and their parents and teachers).

It opens with a retelling of the traditional Maori myth about how the forests began, before going into extensive detail about the flora and fauna that create that delicate ecosystem known as the forest or bush.

The fascinating mass of information begins with the insects and other invertebrates found on the forest floor, and then working up through the various layers of the forest until we get to the chapter on those forest giants, the kauri.

Publisher: Random House

Price: $29.99

Age: 6-plus yrs

Recommended by: Dorothy Vinicombe