Description
It’s a Living Thing — a printable zine for nature lovers, journal keepers & the quietly curious.
✨ Support wildlife with every zine — £2 goes directly to The Vale Wildlife Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre if listed at full price. £1 if purchased at sale prices. It’s brilliant charity in Gloucestershire caring for injured and orphaned wild animals.
The musings inside are written with affection, admiration, and care. Created during 30 Days Wild, each illustrated page began as a daily ritual — a drawing and reflection dedicated to one of the UK’s endangered or at-risk species. What started as a creative habit quickly became a field journal of sorts — filled with tiny stories, surprising facts, and emotional truths. I hope these creatures not only survive, but thrive.
Inside It’s a Living Thing, you’ll find a lovingly illustrated collection of UK species under threat — each accompanied by a field note–style reflection that’s part storytelling, part gentle advocacy, part love letter. Every page features a hand-drawn illustration and a few handwritten thoughts — curious facts, quiet wonderings, memories, or invitations to notice. There’s an educational thread throughout, designed to inspire both learning and feeling.
You’ll meet:
- Ruff
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Puffin
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Long-tailed Duck
- Otter
- Wart Biter Cricket
- Hedgehog
- Bat
- Red Squirrel
- Hen Harrier
- Turtle Dove
- Grey Partridge
- Skylark
- Cuckoo
- Flycatcher
- House Sparrow
- Starling
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Greenfinch
- Angel Shark
- Basking Shark
- Water Vole
- White-clawed Crayfish
- Dormouse
- Bullhead
- Spined Loach
This zine is a quiet celebration of the wild things that still linger; and a gentle reminder to care, wonder, and protect what remains. Whether you’re a nature lover, scrapbooker, student, teacher, or curious soul, It’s a Living Thing is made to be printed, flipped, tucked into a field journal, or used as a springboard for your own noticing – there’s even a bonus field note page at the back for you to use. A thoughtful digital gift that supports charity for any nature lover.