Books for kids

Wildlife In Your Garden by Mike Dilger (Bloomsbury, €16.20)

It offers fascinating information, especially about little-known creature habits.

The spit of common froghoppers helps to conceal it from predators in what we call ‘cuckoo spit’; solitary bees dig tunnels in your lawn; the whirligig beetle uses the upper part of its eye for seeing in air and the lower part to see underwater.