Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - an Illustrated Guide

Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2025 Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize for Nature and Conservation Writing for Children Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - An Illustrated Guide is a stunningly beautiful gift book written by Isabella Tree, which tells the story of the Knepp Estate in West Sussex and introduces younger readers to the concept of rewilding. It is illustrated in full colour with lino prints and watercolours by Angela Harding, photographs from Knepp, and easy in-garden activities helping you to 're-wild' your own spaces. Knepp is now home to some of the rarest and most beautiful creatures in the UK, including nightingales, peregrine falcons, scarce chaser dragonflies, and purple emperor butterflies. When you walk out into the scrubland on an early spring morning the sound of birdsong is so loud it feels like it's vibrating in your lungs. This is the story of Knepp, and a guide telling you how to bring wildlife back wher