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All in one place: our #BestiveBooks favourite-reads-of-the-year advent. Day 1 brought the joys of How to Read A Book by @kwamealexander & Melissa Sweet – a perfect starting point #BestiveBooks 1/28

 Day 2 offered us a Lift created by @dsantat & @bottomshelfbks , published by @LittleBrownYR #BestiveBooks 2/28
Day 3 opened up new possibilities with How to be a Butterfly by @LauraMakesBook & @catellronca #BestiveBooks 3/28
Day 4 addressed the critical issue of coiffure-maintenance with The Hairdo that Got Away by @JosephACoelho & @fionalumbers #BestiveBooks 4/28
Day 5 got creative with How to Spot an Artist by Danielle Krysa #BestiveBooks 5/28
Day 6 stopped and took in and some beauty with @lantanapub 's A Story about Afiya – James Berry #BestiveBooks 6/28
Day 7’s slot was taken by My Shadow is Pink by Scott Stuart, published by @LarrikinH. #BestiveBooks 7/28
Day 8 got practical with the vibrant When Grandpa Gives You A Toolbox
By @jlbdeenihan & Lorraine Rocha, published by @sterlingbooks #BestiveBooks 8/28
Day 9 made way for the mighty The Girl who Stole an Elephant by @NizRite published by @NosyCrow @NosyCrowBooks. #BestiveBooks 9/28
We got well-informed on Day 10 thanks to The Britannica All New Children’s Encyclopaedia, edited by the marvellous @chrislloydwoep of @whatonearthbook #BestiveBooks 10/28
Day 11 celebrated a timeless great with The One That Got Away a ‘first retrospective’ of Jan Mark’s short stories, expertly curated by @appletonbooks #BestiveBooks 11/28
Day 12 was charmed and bewildered by @amytimberlake & @burstofbeaden ‘s Skunk and Badger #BestiveBooks 12/28
Day 13 unleashed the vivid joys of Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: an Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year – expertly curated by Fiona Waters and illustrated by the super talented @Bteckentrup #BestiveBooks 13/28
Day 14 fell under the intoxicating influence of The Lost Spells by @RobGMacfarlane & @JackieMorrisArt #BestiveBooks 14/28
Day 15 brought the wonderful The Lost Homework by @therroneill & Kristi Beautyman #BestiveBooks 15/28
Day 16 gave us the gripping Orphans of the tide by @Struan_Murray #BestiveBooks 16/28
Day 17 provided two treats. the first choice got us outdoors with Wild Things: Over 100 Magical Outdoors Adventures by Jo Schofield & Fiona Danks #BestiveBooks 17/28
Day 17 kept us busy with two choices – there was also The Puffin Keeper by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated to perfection by @benji_davies #BestiveBooks 18/28
Day 18 also offered up two wonderful books – we shared Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li & Amy Blackwell #BestiveBooks 19/28…
And also, on day 18, we shared David Attenborough: Little People Big, Dreams Series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Mikyo Noh, @QuartoKids @Frances_Lincoln #BestiveBooks 20/28
Next we shared Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission, by Dan Long and Stefano Tambellini #BestiveBooks 21/28
And on day 20, we shared Can you See me? By Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott @scholasticuk #BestiveBooks 22/28
Day 21 took a fresh view of the world through Holes by @JonathanLitton #BestiveBooks 23/28
Day 22 took a wander down Belonging Street - Poems by @MandyCoePoet @OtterBarryBooks #BestiveBooks 24/28
Christmas Eve Eve (apparently) or day 23 shared in the joys of Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love, published by @WalkerBooksUK 25/28
Our poetry choice for the final day of our #BestiveBooks favourite reads advent brought two of our firm favourites together: The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
By @afharrold & @Bonzetta1 Utterly usefully brilliant! 26/28
Our Picturebook choice for the final day of our #BestiveBooks favourite reads advent is the lyrical, true beauty that is @jscottwrites & @Sydneydraws I Talk Like A River. 27/28
And we reached the end of our #BestiveBooks favourite-reads-of the-year advent with the important & timely The book of Hopes edited by Katherine Rundell @BloomsburyBooks. May we wish you all a happy and safe holiday - and plenty of good reading! 28/28 Happy Christmas. 📚🎄📚

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2/ Starting from the first replicating molecule which co-operated with an outer layer to form first proto-cell, evolutionary and cultural history is full of examples where two entities come together to survive and progress a lot more than they would have done individually.

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