For me summer as a kid was no more school forever until September at least, camping, exploring the woods and flying ants swarming my grandparents house. This book covers most of those things and many many more. All kinds of birds, animals, insects and plants are written about by people who love their favourite creature. I do feel a few things got forgotten about, camping for one, also I have been on many a summer hike, come to a village and a game of cricket would be happening, you'd hear the game way before you saw it, such a bizarre sight. Thunderstorms are a big feature of and English summer and that could have been covered more....so the book needed at least another 200 pages. :-)

Each piece in this collection was very good, well written and sometimes poetic. It was nice that not just well known authors have been included, the public have been given a chance too. There is not one weak piece of writting here, they all could easily get 4 stars from me. The weakness of the book is no voice stands out, each piece tends to blur into the next one. This might just be an issue for me, maybe I needed to read a couple of pieces here and there between other books. I definitely prefer it when a nature book is written by the one author.

The whole book is a nice reading experience and if you like reading anthologies then you mustn't miss out on this. And I've managed to read the whole book whilst sat in the sun. Next up will be the book for Autumn which I shall have to read when it is windy.