One Tiny Turtle, Bat Loves the Night, Surprising Sharks, Big Blue Whale Big Book, White Owl - Barn Owl
Education
University of Cambridge
Nicola davies how nature can inspire creative writing
Nicola Davies (born 3 May 1958) is an English zoologist and writer. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children's wildlife programme The Really Wild Show. More recently, she has made her name as a children's author. Her books include Home, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, and Poo (2004), which was illustrated by Neal Layton, and was shortlisted for a Blue Peter Book Award in 2006; in the United States, the book is published as Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable. She has also written several novels for adults under the pseudonym Stevie Morgan.
Gaia Warriors — published in November 2009 by Walker Books, and written in association with, and with an afterword by James Lovelock — is a book about climate change like no other that explains the science and answers the commonly asked questions about global warming.
Davies was married to Mark Harrison from 1984 to 1997 (until they divorced) and she has two children.
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Works
Big Blue Whale (1997) Illustrated by Nick Maland
Bat Loves the Night (2001) Illustrated by Sarah Fox Davies
One Tiny Turtle (2001) Illustrated by Jane Chapman
Surprising Sharks (2003) illustrated by James Croft
Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable (2004) illustrated by Neal Layton
Home (2005)
Ice Bear (2005) Illustrated by Gary Blythe
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures (2006) Illustrated by Neil Layton
What's eating you? Parasites: the Inside Story (2007) Illustrated by Neil Layton
White Owl, Barn Owl (2007) Illustrated by Michael Foreman
Up on the Hill (2008)
Gaia Warriors (2009) - a book about climate change and what to do about it
Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals are Big and Little Animals are Little (2009) Illustrated by Neil Layton
Grow your Own Monsters (2010) by Nicola Davies and Simon Hickmott
A Girl Called Dog (2011)
Monsters of the Deep (2011)
Talk, Talk, Squawk (2011) Illustrated by Neil Layton
Welcome to Silver Street Farm (2011)
A First Book of Nature (2012) Illustrated by Mark Hearld. Published as Outside Your Window in the US (2012). Winner of the Independent Booksellers Best Picture Book.
Dolphin Baby (2012) Illustrated by Brita Granstrom
Frozen Solid at Silver Street Farm (2012)
Just Ducks! (2012) Illustrated by Salvatore Rubbino Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2013
Rubbish Town Hero (2012)
What will I be? (2012) Illustrated by Marc Boutavant
Who's like Me? (2012) Illustrated by Marc Boutavant
Deadly! - the truth about the most dangerous creatures on earth (2013) Illustrated by Neil Layton
Manatee Baby (2013)
The Elephant Road (2013)
The Lion Who Stole My Arm (2013) Winner of The Portsmouth Book Award 2014
The Promise (2013) Illustrated by Laura Carlin. Winner of the 2014 English Association Picture Book award for best fiction.
Walking the Bear (2013)
Whale Boy (2013) Shortlisted for the "Best Story" category of the 2014 Blue Peter Book Awards