Build your very own model beautiful oak tree with 15 press-out play animals, while learning about the crucial role trees play on our planet!
This gorgeous interactive guide to trees is a delight for nature lovers and budding conservationists who enjoy model crafting and imaginative play.
Just press out the pieces and follow easy-to-follow instructions to build a 12-inch slot-together model of an oak tree, beautifully illustrated to show the tree in every season. No glue or scissors needed!
Over 15 buildable models add to the fun, including a deer, a fox, a wild boar, rabbits, an owl, a crow, robins and more to bring to life and recreate the tree's ecosystem.
The kit also features an intricately illustrated 32-page book, which explores every aspect of what makes trees unique, from the forest floor to up high in the canopy and all the biology and living things in between. Discover the wide variety of different forest from around the world, how trees provide a home to a wide range of creatures, tree biology, conservation and the incredible fungal networks that let trees communicate.
With endless play value as well as a lovely decorative piece to brighten up a bedroom, Build a Tree helps build a connection to the natural world and stimulates imaginative play for children aged 7 and up
Table of Contents:
What are trees and why are they important
The biology of trees
Forests around the world
Extreme trees
Canopy life - a new science
On the forest floor
Trees, birds and animals
Natural threats to trees
Why do we need trees?
Human threats - logging and timber
Conserving our trees
Amazing trees
Philippa has been a well known TV and radio presenter and producer working primarily for the BBC for many years. She has always had a passion for the natural world and competed a part time degree in Ecology and Conservation while working on TV. She spent seven years living in Jackson hole Wyoming where she remotely completed a masters degree in writing and has continued to write, mainly about the natural world, for both adults and children.
Natalia is an illustrator based in Bogotá, Colombia. She has worked in various visual fields, such as books, magazines and illustration for advertising. Natalia has also enjoyed working on several social projects involving the rural population in Colombia.
Design Eye Publishing, Ltd
Pub Date: May 20, 2025
1.4" H x 14.2" L x 7.5" W
32 pages
hardcover