Sitting under the elder tree one May evening, Uncle Paul begins a series of talks with his nephews about the farmer’s friends: the wild creatures that protect the crops by devouring insects and other pests. They look at teeth and what they reveal, at bats and their wings and senses, the hedgehog, the cuckoo and many more.
The great French naturalist’s gift for making young readers look closely at living things, in an easy conversational form. Download the free EPUB.