The Great Big Book of Irish Wildlife: Through the Seasons

About Juanita Browne

Juanita Browne a Zoology graduate with an MA in Media Studies has almost 20 years experience across television radio magazines books and newspapers. She works on natural history documentaries for television including the multi-award-winning Secret Life of the Shannon and On a River in Ireland Wild Cities and Wild Ireland. She has also worked on childrens wildlife television shows for RTE including Shutterbugs and Wild Things. Juanita has produced two radio documentary series for RTE Radio 1 titled Nature on One consisting of 16 half-hour documentaries. Juanitas books include Irelands Mammals (2005); Kildares Natural Heritage (2008) Put the Kettle On the Irish love affair with tea (2013); and My First Book of Irish Animals (2014) which was shortlisted for the Literacy Association of Ireland Childrens Book Award 2015. Juanita also edits Biodiversity Ireland the magazine of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. Her latest job involves working with the National Biodiversity Data Centre on a project called the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan conserving bees bumblebees and the wildflowers hedgerows they depend on. Dubliner Barry Reynolds is a character designer/concept/visual development artist and illustrator who has worked on the Oscar-nominated animated movie The Secret of Kells on Aardman and Sony Pictures Animations Arthur Christmas and on Irish language graphic novels An Táin and Deirdre agus Mic Uisnigh where his artwork helped these Irish legends to a new readership. As a child Barry saw The Jungle Book and announced then that he intended to be an artist and he has realised that dream apart from a few brief flirtations with wanting to be an astronaut a dinosaur hunter and a zoologist the last of which came in handy when working on The Great Big Book of Irish Wildlife.