• Soft sage or olive-green background; David Attenborough in large flowing black handwritten calligraphic script; soft painterly illustration of young David with pale creamy skin, a full head of warm golden-yellow or golden-amber rounded hair, small blue dot eyes and a gentle soft smile; dark forest-green button-up field jacket or safari-style shirt with chest patch pockets and a round collar; a small vivid deep blue-purple or navy-black butterfly with rounded wings perched delicately on the raised index fing
  • Wide lush green university campus lawn; large imposing stone or pale grey neoclassical university building with multiple rows of white-framed sash windows, a triangular pediment, ornate columns and a small red flag on a flagpole filling the upper right background; tall dark cypress trees and rounded ornamental trees lining the forecourt; large spreading tree with a broad dark canopy in the upper left, with a plump grey squirrel on a branch; young David with golden-yellow hair in a blue and white horizontal-
  • Warm golden-hour English countryside at late afternoon; golden-yellow and pale amber sunset sky; low dark rounded hill covered in mixed green and ochre woodland; dense low undergrowth of varied green plants, ferns, bare branching shrubs and wild grasses; young David with golden-yellow hair in a pale beige short-sleeved shirt, dark navy shorts, white knee socks and brown lace-up shoes, sitting cross-legged on the grass in the centre foreground, holding a small dark fossil raised in his right hand and an open
  • Vast expansive Antarctic landscape; pale ice-blue and white sky with soft grey streaks of falling snow; enormous flat-topped white and blue-grey ice cliffs or glaciers across the full background; huge dense colony of emperor penguins filling the entire foreground and middle ground — adult penguins with black backs, white fronts, yellow-orange cheek patches and orange-yellow bills, many standing upright, some huddled, some with small grey fluffy chicks beside them; one small penguin chick waddling alone in t
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LITTLE PEOPLE BIG DREAMS: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH (HB)

LITTLE PEOPLE BIG DREAMS: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH (HB)

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Part of the beloved Little People, BIG DREAMS series — beautifully illustrated biographical picture books that introduce young children to the lives of remarkable people who changed the world. This volume tells the story of David Attenborough, the boy who grew up on a university campus in Leicester with a head full of curiosity and a lifelong love of the natural world — and who became the most celebrated nature broadcaster in history.

Little David grew up in Leicester, England, with his parents and two brothers. His father was the head of the local university and they lived on campus: a great place for curious minds. From an early age David was captivated by the world around him — collecting fossils on long cycling trips through the countryside, studying specimens in the science library, and building his own miniature animal museum. There was something amazing to him about plants and animals that were thousands of years old. When he was old enough, he went to university to study science and zoology, but what he wanted more than anything was to be close to the animals he was learning about. So he turned to television, and spent decades travelling the world to find them. He met turtles on the Galápagos Islands and gorillas in the African jungle. In Antarctica, he was introduced to all the members of a penguin family. From the depths of the ocean to the highest rainforest canopy, David told the world the untold stories of its most extraordinary creatures — and in doing so, inspired generations of people to love and protect the natural world.

Told in simple, engaging language with soft, gloriously detailed nature illustrations by Mikyo Noh, this is a warm and beautifully observed introduction to one of the greatest naturalists and broadcasters of all time. A facts and photos section at the back — including a biographical timeline — brings David’s story into the real world.

  • Part of the Little People, BIG DREAMS series
  • Written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
  • Illustrated by Mikyo Noh
  • Publisher: Aurum Press / Quarto
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • Dimensions: 240 x 195mm
  • Publication date: 23 January 2020
  • For readers aged 4 and up
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