On Safari: Band 15/Emerald

by Jonathan Scott, Angela Scott

Overview

What's it really like to go on safari? What do you take? What will you find? Go on a journey with Jonathan and Angela Scott to the famous game parks of Kenya, and discover the excitement, the wonder and the dangers of travelling into the wild.

• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

• Text type: A non-chronological report.

• The diary entry of a day on safari on pages 46-47 provides a fascinating example for children of being on safari.

• Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.

• Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Art and Design: Journeys; Citizenship: Animals and us.

• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780007231256
Publisher:	HarperCollins UK
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Collins Big Cat
Edition description:	None
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	8.26(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	9 Years

About the Author

Presenter, author and photographer Jonathan Scott has written about the wildlife of the Masai Mara in western Kenya for over 25 years. Big cats have been the focus of much of his work and Big Cat Diary, the BBC/Animal Planet television programme that Jonathan co-presents has been a tremendous success, now going into its fifth series. He has written a number of books including Mara-Serengeti (together with Angie), 'Dawn to Dusk' and 'Kingdom of Lions.' Jonathan is a previous winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, and his and Angie's stunning photographs appeared in the triology of 'Big Cat Diary' books. He has produced a number of superb pen and ink drawings of the wildlife of Africa and Antarctica.

Angie Scott was born and raised in Africa, and is an award winning wildlife photographer. Her love of Africa's wild places, photography and art has found the perfect outlet since she met Jonathan and she won the BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in 2002. They have been able to share their enthusiasm for East Africa, its people and its wildlife, and to work as a highly productive team. As well as writing bestselling guide books, in the late 1990s they travelled the world together , presenting stories for Paramount Television's wildlife series Wild Things. Angie acts as spotter and stills photographer for the BBC Big Cat Diary series.

The Scotts also spend a lot of time giving lectures and taking groups on safari, working with the travel groups Kuoni and Abercrombie and Kent. When they are not on safari, Jonathan and Angie love nothing better than to spend time with their children, Alia and David, at their home in Nairobi, a rambling old stone building with its own borehole and ten acres of land overlooking the beautiful Ngong Hills.

 

 

Jonathan and Angie Scott are award-winning wildlife photographers based in Kenya. They have travelled to the furthest corners of the globe in search of material for their work and have produced more than twenty books. Jonathan is best known as a Presenter with the BBC Natural History Unit particularly for Big Cat Diary the hugely popular wildlife soap opera that first hit our screens twelve years ago. In 2009 they were honoured as Canon Ambassadors in recognition of their outstanding photography. They are particularly proud to be authors of a number of titles in the Collins Big Cat series, as education and conservation are particularly close to their hearts. www.jonathanangelascott.com