Why is That Lake So Blue?

Dr Simon Pollard is a spider biologist and award-winning natural history photographer and writer. He has written and illustrated a number of children’s books in New Zealand and the United States and has twice won the LIANZA Elsie Locke non-fiction book of the year. In 2017 his book for Te Papa Press, The Genius of Bugs, was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Simon has also been an advisor, scriptwriter and presenter on a number of natural history documentaries, including the BBC’s Planet Earth. In 2007 he was awarded the New Zealand Association of Scientists’ Science Communicator of the Year Award. He is a former curator of Invertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum and adjunct associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury.

• Welcome to Zealandia91 Why is our place magic?112 Why are these islands shaky?213 Why are the forests so green?334 Why is that lake so blue?455 What’s happening out at sea?576 What used to live here?697 What happened when people arrived?798 What happens after dark?91What can you do to help keep Aotearoa New Zealand magic?102What does that word mean?104Where will you find it?107Who wrote this book?108Who helped make this book?109What page is that on?110