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Will Travers's Top Book Recommendations

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How can YOU help save our planet? This awesome and inspiring guide, written by musician and environmental activist Dougie Poynter, will tell you how to get involved in the mission to cut out single-use plastic.


Plastic is everywhere and it sucks. It fills up our oceans, endangers our wildlife and never goes away. So it's time to take action, find ways to cut down our plastic use, and help protect our environment. Together we can make a difference!


From the history of plastic to the effects of plastic on our planet to the innovations in plastic clean up and...
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Recommended by Will Travers, and 1 others.

Will Travers#plasticsucks Modern man: #musician, author #animal lover ⁦@DougiePoynter⁩ launches his amazing book of hints & expert advice on how to get drastic with #plastics. Order yr copy now! ⁦@MacmillanKidsUK⁩ ⁦@BornFreeFDN⁩ ⁦@BellaLack⁩ ⁦@GretaThunberg⁩ RT https://t.co/BeVrxSiEpm (Source)

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The Butterfly Lion

ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM.
A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.


“All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”


Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.
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Recommended by Michael Morpurgo, Will Travers, and 2 others.

Michael MorpurgoMore than any other small boy I’ve ever put in a book that boy is me. (Source)

Will Travers@msndodo90 @ElsasKopje @BornFreeFDN @BornFreeUSA @kws @elewana @MichaelMorpugo Ah. The Butterfly Lion is a wonderful book. My mum (Virginia) read the audio version. She will be doing a performance of The Best Christmas Present in the World with the genius Michael Murpurgo later this year. Best wishes Will (Source)

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Ring of Bright Water

Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell’s life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man’s relationship with the natural world.
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Recommended by Will Travers, Amy Liptrot, and 2 others.

Will Travers@ElandPublishing @gallimaufrey777 @OnlyInGuides My Mum and Dad were in Ring of Bright Water. Special, book, film, memories. Best W (Source)

Amy LiptrotHe’s sort of alone, in the natural world, which is very appealing (Source)

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