Build your very own model beautiful oak tree with 15 press-out play animals, while learning about the crucial role trees play on our planet!This gorgeous interactive guide to trees is a delight fornature loversandbudding conservationistswho enjoy model crafting and imaginative play.Just press out the pieces and follow easy-to-follow instructions to build a30-cm slot-together modelof an oak tree, beautifully illustrated to show the tree in every season. No glue or scissors needed!Over15 buildable modelsadd to the fun, including a deer, a fox, a wild boar, rabbits, an owl, a crow, robins and more to bring to life and recreate the trees ecosystem.The kit also features anintricately illustrated 32-page book, which explores every aspect ofwhat makes trees unique, from the forest floor to up high in the canopy and all the biology and living things in between. Discover the wide variety of different forestfrom around the world, how trees provide a home to a wide range of creatures, tree biology,conservationand the incredible fungal networks that let trees communicate.Written byPhilippa Forrester, who’s broadcasting career spans three decades of British primetime TV including Robot Wars and Tomorrow’s World. With her husband, she has also written and produced a string of award-winning science and nature documentaries for the BBC, Animal Planet and Discovery. Philippa has published three books and has degrees in English literature and Ecology and Conservation. She was shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards in 2024. For six years, Philippa lived and worked in Wyoming encountering wolves, grizzly bears, moose and the odd cowboy. She returned to live in the UK in the summer of 2020. Back home, she is rediscovering her own patch of wilderness and the joys of the English countryside, especially her favourite wild animal, otters.Illustrated byNatalia Roja Castro, who has worked in various visual fields, such as books, magazines and illustration for advertising. The inspiration for her work comes from her surroundings, the streets of Bogota, the colours and nature of Colombia and Latin America. Natalia works in digital format, using textures to give her images an organic touch. Her work has been featured in Vice, Avianca magazine, Domestika, Seal Colombia, editorial planeta among others.Withendless play valueas well as a lovelydecorative pieceto brighten up a bedroom,Build a Treehelps build aconnection to the natural worldandstimulates imaginative playfor children aged 7 and up.