Small Friends Books

Small Friends Books – Stories of Partnership and Cooperation in Nature

The Small Friends Books series combines cutting-edge scientific research, rich narrative and beautiful illustrations to tell stories that describe symbiotic partnerships between microbes and larger life forms.

Each book is also a kind of symbiosis: a collaboration between writers, scientists, artists, designers and educators.

The series is co-published by CSIRO Publishing and Scale Free Network.

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Cover of The Forest in the Tree featuring an illustration of cacao trees c

The Forest in the Tree

Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti

Hardback - September 2020 - AU $24.99

Four book covers

The Small Friends Books Set

Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Linda Blackall, Patricia Stock

Set - September 2020 - AU $79.99

Cover featuring a drawing of a nematode moving through an underground chan

Nema and the Xenos

Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, S. Patricia Stock

Hardback - August 2019 - AU $24.99

Cover with illustration of bleaching coral

Zobi and the Zoox

Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Gregory Crocetti, Briony Barr

Hardback - June 2018 - AU $24.95