Nicola Davies (author)

Nicola Davies (born 3 May 1958)^[1] is an English zoologist and writer. She was one of the original presenters of the BBC children's wildlife programme The Really Wild Show.^[2] More recently, she has made her name as a children's author. Her books include Home, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award,^[3] and Poo (2004), which was illustrated by Neal Layton, and was shortlisted for a Blue Peter Book Award in 2006;^[4] in the United States, the book is published as Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable. She has also written several novels for adults under the pseudonym Stevie Morgan.

Gaia Warriors — published in November 2009 by Walker Books, and written in association with, and with an afterword by, James Lovelock — is a book about climate change like no other that explains the science and answers the commonly asked questions about global warming.

Davies was married to Mark Harrison from 1984 to 1997 (until they divorced) and she has two children.^[1]

Works

• Big Blue Whale (1997) Illustrated by Nick Maland

• Bat Loves the Night (2001) Illustrated by Sarah Fox Davies

• One Tiny Turtle (2001) Illustrated by Jane Chapman

• Surprising Sharks (2003) illustrated by James Croft

• Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable (2004) illustrated by Neal Layton

• Home (2005)

• Ice Bear (2005) Illustrated by Gary Blythe

• Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures (2006) Illustrated by Neil Layton

• What's eating you? Parasites: the Inside Story (2007) Illustrated by Neil Layton

• White Owl, Barn Owl (2007) Illustrated by Michael Foreman

• Up on the Hill (2008)

• Gaia Warriors (2009) - a book about climate change and what to do about it

• Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals are Big and Little Animals are Little (2009) Illustrated by Neil Layton

• Grow your Own Monsters (2010) by Nicola Davies and Simon Hickmott

• A Girl Called Dog (2011)

• Monsters of the Deep (2011)

• Talk, Talk, Squawk (2011) Illustrated by Neil Layton

• Welcome to Silver Street Farm (2011)

• A First Book of Nature (2012) Illustrated by Mark Heard. Published as Outside Your Window in the US (2012). Winner of the Independent Booksellers Best Picture Book.

• Dolphin Baby (2012) Illustrated by Brita Granstrom

• Frozen Solid at Silver Street Farm (2012)

• Just Ducks! (2012) Illustrated by Salvatore Rubbino Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2013

• Rubbish Town Hero (2012)

• What will I be? (2012) Illustrated by Marc Boutavant

• Who's like Me? (2012) Illustrated by Marc Boutavant

• Deadly! - the truth about the most dangerous creatures on earth (2013) Illustrated by Neil Layton

• Manatee Baby (2013)

• The Elephant Road (2013)

• The Lion Who Stole My Arm (2013) Winner of The Portsmouth Book Award 2014

• The Promise (2013) Illustrated by Laura Carlin. Winner of the 2014 Engish Association Picture Book award for best fiction.

• Walking the Bear (2013)

• Whale Boy (2013) Shortlisted for the "Best Story" category of the 2014 Blue Peter Book Awards

• Tiny (2014) Illustrated by Emily Sutton

References

External links

• Official website
• Nicola Davies at Walker Books
• Nicola Davies at David Higham Associates
• Nicola Davies at Library of Congress Authorities, with 34 catalog records
• Stevie Morgan at LC Authorities (no catalogue records)