Lost Wonders: Vanished Creatures of Aotearoa
Sarah Ell
Allen & Unwin
2020

May 6, 2022

Lost Wonders: Vanished Creatures of Aotearoa is a sad but powerful book. Each chapter is a different story about our extinct, or endangered creatures of Aotearoa. Although it is a non-fiction book, at the start of each chapter, author Sarah Ell writes a paragraph of an explorer, killing or just encountering the animal of the chapter. The animals mostly consist of birds, but there are also plants, bugs, whales, and dolphins. All these living things became extinct, or at least very close to it, whether it’s from human killings, habitat loss or the introduction of different predators.  Read more