Nobody On The Plains Is Off Duty.
A dung beetle is clearing the plains one load at a time. A meerkat is standing watch from the top of a termite mound while the rest of the group eats. A wildebeest is somewhere in the middle of a migration that runs past the horizon in both directions. All of it is happening on an ordinary afternoon on the savannah — and most children only ever meet it as lions and giraffes.
This book gives each of them a title. Fifty savannah creatures, each introduced by the work it genuinely does, organised across seven departments from the Grasslands Crew on the open plains to the Underground Bureau below the roots.
The watercolour carries as much of the page as the words do — and there are objects hidden on every spread, so nobody gets through it in one pass.
