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Staff and children at Old Catton Junior School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Old Catton Junior School (Image: Old Catton Junior School) Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he could crawl. Growing up, he counted the animals that lived around him as his best pals – from the asthmatic donkey to the grass snakes in the manure heap! Lily, 7 years old, and Alfie, 4 years old, dresses as Jim Lad from the Pirate Next Door and Mary Poppins on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Sarah Mayhew (Image: Sarah Mayhew) Matilda Crush-Davison as Hilda on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Joseph Davison (Image: Joseph Davison) Suffield Park Infant and Nursery School celebrate World Book Day 2019. They also raised money for new books by doing a fun run. Picture: (Image: Suffield Park Infant and Nursery School)

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Steve is one of the busiest presenters on television, mainly working for the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He has had his own season of programmes on Eden television channel alongside legends David Attenborough and Bruce Parry. Before that, he was ‘Adventurer in Residence’ at the National Geographic Channel. Emilie-Rose Pamment as the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. Photo: Victoria Pamment (Image: Victoria Pamment)

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Stanley as Peter Pan and Archie as Mario on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Jacqui Brown (Image: Jacqui Brown)

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Staff and students and Beccles Free School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Beccles Free School (Image: Beccles Free School) James, aged 5, dressed as Tintin on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Louise Hewitt (Image: Louise Hewitt) Thurlton Primary School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Thurlton Primary School (Image: Thurlton Primary School) That's where this book comes in. Taking you through different environments and activities to explore, from minibeasts in the garden and pond dipping all the way through to beach Olympics and sea swimming (via rainy days, wild woods and river exploration), there are ideas small and big for all ages that will get them - and you - more engaged and involved with nature, and the wildlife in it.All the hyperbole is true. You can take almost anyone and double their breath-hold in a day of training. You can get them 20m underwater in a couple of days,” he says. “It’s impossible to talk about it without sounding really woo, but it’s a transcendental experience, one that puts you very in touch with your own body, very aware of where you’re at.” An orca circled me, then flipped over to show her tummy. It was magic

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Children at Norwich Primary Academy dress up for World Book Day 2019. Photo: Norwich Primary Academy (Image: Norwich Primary Academy) Emilio, 10 years old, dressed as Monkey Magic from The Monkey King. Photo: Baz Bettski (Image: Baz Bettski) He’s poured some of his recent learning into Deep Blue, a beguiling mix of anecdotes from his animal encounters and an accessible scientific explanation of the importance of our seas. They are the source of 97% of the world’s water and yet we know vanishingly little about their depths: 90% of the world’s fish live in the twilight zone from 200m to 1,000m and yet, astonishingly, three-quarters of the world’s water is below this depth. There are still blooms of life beyond the midnight zone. When a dead whale sinks to the bottom, specialised feeders, such as flame-haired zombie worms, devour the skeleton. Some “whale falls” support 45,000 worms per square metre, the highest concentration of life in our oceans. Michael as Gangster Granny and Daisy as Red Riding Hood on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Daisy Soall (Image: Daisy Soall) Kaitlyn Summer Hope Richards, aged 5, dressed as the Queen of Hearts on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Gemma Richards (Image: Archant)Corton Primary School celebrated World Book Day 2019. Photo: Corton Primary School (Image: Corton Primary School) Alburgh with Denton Primary School celebrate World Book Day 2019. Photo: Alburgh with Denton Primary School (Image: Alburgh with Denton Primary School) Jonah as a warrior from The Wizards of Once and Rupie as a crayon from The Day the Crayons Quit. Photo: Emma White (Image: Emma White) Imogen, Noah and Lila, aged 9, 8 and 14 months, dressed as a Dementor and Hermione Granger from Harry Potter and the baby from That’s Not My Baby. Photo: Charlotte Ashe (Image: Charlotte Ashe)

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Poppy as Willy Wonka and her best friend Emily as one of the Oompa Loompas. Photo: Rebecca Nutbourne (Image: Rebecca Nutbourne) Rhys Edmonds dressed up as Wheres Wally? on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Ellie Brown (Image: Ellie Brown) If you're coming to Coles by car, why not take advantage of the 2 hours free parking at Sainsbury's Pioneer Square - just follow the signs for Pioneer Square as you drive into Bicester and park in the multi-storey car park above the supermarket. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. You don't need to shop in Sainsbury's to get the free parking! Where to Find Us Next, Steve joined the Natural History Unit’s fledgling expedition team, making the first ascent of a jungle peak and dropping into a vast sinkhole in the Mulu mountains in ‘Expedition Borneo’. In ‘Lost Land of the Jaguar’he made the first ascent of Mount Upuigma in Venezuela, slept on the vertical cliff face and found unknown species of animals on the summit. He also abseiled to the bottom of the Kaiteur Falls in Guyana to the soaked wonderland below. Ollie Davis, aged 7, and Charlie Read-Cook, aged 5, with 8 month old baby sister Isla Warmer on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Charlotte Cook (Image: Charlotte Cook)After graduating from university, Steve began writing for the Rough Guides travel series, which then led to television work. Soon he was carrying business cards from National Geographic which described him as their ‘Adventurer in Residence’. And then he found himself in the vast untamed wilderness of Papua New Guinea, experiencing the crushing lows and extraordinary highs of the BBC’s Lost Land of the Volcano expedition. Elisha Coe, aged 8, from Scarning, as Mary Poppins on World Book Day 2019. Photo: Tammy Coe (Image: Tammy Coe) Ellis, aged 6, dressed as Mr Toad from the Wind in The Willows. Photo: Paula Matthews (Image: Paula Matthews) I really enjoy being on expeditions with dirt under my fingernails, doing things on the fly’: filming with sharks. Photograph: BBC/BBC Studios