For the kid that loves animals and wildlife, 2 books & 1 game $30 (RRP $65)

Learn all sorts of fascinating things about animals, wildlife and patterns in nature with Nature's Techno Tricks - a book all about the science of biomimetics - Exploring Nature's Pattern Magic about the amazing patterns to be found in nature - and Discover Wildlife, an educational quiz game about animals that is fun for the whole family.

Nature's Techno Tricks

What have kingfishers got to do with Japan's 500 Series Shinkansen bullet train?

Is Spiderman more like a spider or a gecko?

And, what does any of this have to do with Leonardo da Vinci?

Just like Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th and early 17th centuries, today's scientists and engineers are realising that nature hold the keys to some of the best ideas. Nature wastes nothing and uses minimal energy.

This growing scientific field is called biomimetics; the study and application of designs found in nature in order to solve modern problems in engineering, materials, science, medicine and other fields. Nature's Techno Tricks helps you discover some of nature's best designs and how they have inspired scientists and engineers.

Exploring Nature's Pattern Magic

The lessons that Nature can teach us are infinite. So get on the Pattern Path and spend time observing, experimenting and exploring. Look for unique and interesting patterns when you are out and about using this book to help you understand the patterns in nature.

Nature displays an endless variety of eye-catching patterns in a variety of form, colour and texture. Patterns help us understand how energy flows through nature's network of complex systems. Patterns show us how nature's organisms survive, how they make things and how life is organized and connected on our planet - Earth.

Nature's patterns give us an introduction and understanding of mathematics. She packs efficiently, ties knots, builds columns, makes hexagons, uses spirals and nets and bubbles. But thinking about and seeing the mathematics of nature requires practice. So open your eyes and discover a new way of looking at the world around you.

Discover Wildlife

Designed in New Zealand for adults and children from primary age upwards, Discover Wildlife combines education with the fun and excitement of a game.

Discover Wildlife is a unique and fun game, with 100 cards and 400 questions – ALL about Wildlife. These questions aren’t trivia, but are good general knowledge questions from a range of areas. The questions are set at four different levels – so that anyone from primary school age upwards can play.

Discover Wildlife has 100 beautiful photos of world wildlife. This is a great game for travel and home, revealing some of the wonder of our world’s wildlife. (photo credits)

Discover Wildlife© – an educational game that challenges and teaches general knowledge about world wildlife.