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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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 of The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon featuring an illustrated squid

The Squid, the Vibrio and the Moon

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

Hardback - February 2019 - AU $18.00 (AU $24.99)
On sale until 15-Aug

Cover with illustration of bleaching coral

Zobi and the Zoox

Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti

Hardback - June 2018 - AU $24.95