Lake and Stream — Life Above and Below the Water's Surface

The book for the whole family: Identify animals and plants in nature

This book is the perfect guide for the whole family who want to explore nature together. It helps identify both the most common animals and plants as well as some rarer but exciting species. Whether you take the book on an expedition with a net and a jam jar, or use it as bedtime reading with the older children, there will be plenty of fascinating knowledge to discover.

The book is written out of a deep fascination for the incredible world we can find right outside the door. From the smallest creatures like daphnia to the majestic swans, stories are told about lives that depend on both water and land environments – a system that could not exist without either.

The animals, from the smallest daphnia to the largest swans, all live lives that depend on freshwater and the land environment that would not exist without the water.

Read about amazing adaptations and symbioses, about how everything fits together in a delicate and balanced system. And enjoy the illustrations, which say more than many words.

Michael Petersen trained as a veterinarian but early on changed course for a career as a visual artist and graphic designer. For 18 years he worked at Copenhagen Zoo, where his drawings and designs can be seen on signs and in exhibitions, including Den Arktisk Ring. Now he has returned to the source, back to when as a boy he went out with a net and jam jars to find water spiders and tadpoles.

Hardcover, 128 pages. 
Measures: 21x16 cm.