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Dan y Don

by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Abbie Cameron

Interest age: 6 to 7

Published by Graffeg, 2023

About this book

This non-fiction book guides young readers to an undersea world. Unlike more traditional non-fiction books, this book combines metre and rhyme with facts in order to open readers’ minds to the undersea world. Between the covers is a wealth of language that introduces readers to Welsh names of sea creatures. Thanks to Cameron’s illustrations, the reader can see underwater scenes as if they themselves were swimming the seas. The partnership between the rhythmic words and the detailed pictures will make any child want to wear a scuba suit and venture into the water!

A subject that will stimulate interest across the curriculum but especially in the areas of:

Science and Technology, Humanities, Languages, Literacy and Communication.

About the author

Nicola Davies is the author of more than 50 books for children: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her work has been published in more than 10 different languages and has won major awards in the UK, US, France, Italy and Germany.

Nicola trained as a zoologist, taking a degree in Natural Sciences from King's College, Cambridge. She spent some years as a field biologist and studied humpback and sperm whales, and bats, before joining the BBC Natural History Unit as a researcher and then presenter.

Following the start of her writing career, Nicola became a senior lecturer in creative writing, at Bath Spa University but has been writing full time for over a decade. She now regularly runs workshops for children and adults to help them find their voices as writers and advocates for nature. In 2017, she was the first recipient of the SLA’s award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Non-fiction and in 2018 had four picture books longlisted for the Greenaway Award.

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