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Follow Your Gut - A Story from the Microbes That Make You by Ailsa Wild; Lisa Stinson; Ben Hutchings (Illustrator); Briony Barr; Gregory Crocetti
Category: Fiction
A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn human baby.Follow Your Gut is a comic that ate a biology textbook. It's an epic adventure set over the first three years of a new life, exploring one of the most important rela ...Show more
Nema and the Xenos: A Story of Soil Cycles by Ailsa Wild; Aviva Reed; Briony Barr (Illustrator); Gregory Crocetti; Patricia Stock
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Small Friends Books
The tale of a tiny worm, the bacteria that live inside her, and a tree being munched on by a grub. This is a story about tiny creatures that live in the darkness of the soil. When a tree cries out in pain, some unexpected heroes come to the rescue. Nema and her gang of young nematodes (tiny worms) embar ...Show more
Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country by Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti
Category: Picture Books
Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country is a fascinating, illustrated science book that takes kids inside the life of termites through storytelling from the Gurindji People. Did you know there are four types of termite poo? Or that a warm paste made from termite mound is used to strengthen a ...Show more
The Forest in the Tree: How Fungi Shape the Earth by Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Small Friends Bks.
Age range 8 to 12This is a story about trees and fungi connected through a 'wood wide web' — told by one tiny fungal spore.A little fungus meets a baby cacao tree and they learn to feed each other. They cooperate with a forest of plants and a metropolis of microbes in the soil. But when drought strikes ...Show more
The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales by Ailsa Wild with Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti
Category: Graphic Novels
An illustrated science-history graphic novel exploring parallel experiences during WWI. The story takes place on two different physical scales - the macro-scale, from the point of view of a Victorian nurse supporting troops in the trenches of the Western Front - and simultaneously on the micro-level, fr ...Show more
The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon by Ailsa Wild; Aviva Reed; Briony Barr; Gregory Crocetti; Linda Blackall
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Small Friends Books
This book is about a symbiotic relationship. It tells the story of a Bobtail squid and the bacteria that help it glow in the moonlight. First we meet Ali, an intrepid Vibrio fischeri bacterium determined to reach safety. Then we meet Sepio, a baby Bobtail squid who is still unable to glow. His dark shap ...Show more
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon by Ailsa Wild and Gregory Crocetti
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Small Friends
This book is about a symbiotic relationship. It tells the story of a Bobtail squid and the bacteria that help it glow in the moonlight. First we meet Ali, an intrepid Vibrio fischeri bacterium determined to reach safety. Then we meet Sepio, a baby Bobtail squid who is still unable to glow. His dark shap ...Show more
Zobi and the Zoox by Gregory Crocetti
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Small Friends Books
This book is about a symbiotic relationship.It tells the story of the microscopic friends living in a tiny coral polyp.With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave Rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady Zoox (zooxanthellae). The coral becomes gravely ill and bact ...Show more
Zobi and the Zoox: A Story of Coral Bleaching by Ailsa Wild; Aviva Reed; Briony Barr; Gregory Crocetti
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Small Friends Books
With her home under threat from a warming ocean, Zobi, a brave rhizobia bacterium, teams up with a family of slow but steady zoox (zooxanthellae). As the coral bleaches, everyone begins to starve...Can Zobi and the zoox work together to save the day?This beautifully illustrated science-adventure story, ...Show more
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