A huge amount of fascinating information is conveyed as much by the stunning illustrations as by the succinct, informative text. This is a glorious book.
BookTrust
<i>Finding Home</i> is a book to return to, to share and to savour.
Best Books for Schools
...a lovely splash of the natural world ... a library necessity and very much welcomed by the young reader beginning to go beyond the superficial with animals.
Armadillo Magazine
Paired with gorgeous watercolor illustrations, entries about each animal provide unique insight into their means of survival. A strong addition wherever animal and ecology books are popular.
School Library Journal Reviews
Graceful and accurately detailed ... Natural engineering at its most astonishing.
Kirkus
Mike Unwin and illustrator Jenni Desmond ... know just how to make children’s precious imaginations soar.
- Best Children's Books of 2018, The Guardian on MIGRATION
This non-fiction picture book is a beautifully illustrated, fact-filled goldmine
Children's Book and Media Review on MIGRATION
Each double-page spread summons an outstanding example of migration. We’ve seen many of them before, such as the epic flights of arctic terns and wandering albatross, but others are less well known
Redeemed Reader on MIGRATION
Desmond’s art, created with watercolour, acrylic, ink, pencil, and pencil crayon, incorporates a paragraph of additional information about each species. It is her images that make this oversize album stand out
Kirkus on MIGRATION
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Mike Unwin, a UK Travel Writer of the Year, is the author of more than 30 books on the subject, including the Encyclopedia of Birds (Bloomsbury) and Southern African Wildlife (Bradt).
Jenni Desmond won the 2015 Best Emerging Talent Award and her debut Red Cat, Blue Cat won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! Award in 2012. Her moving title The Polar Bear became a 'New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book' of the year.