Steve Backshall's Deadly 60

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Isabella Murrell, aged 4, with her first World Book Day dressed as Mary Poppins with the umbrella she handmade with her mum. But if you go to a rainforest and don’t find the harpy eagle, you know you’ll find the poison dart frog. I got in the water and a female circled around me eyeing me up and almost led me away, flipped over on her back, showed me her tummy, came back down, and looked around me. It would be totally wrong for me just to say, ‘Oh leave it to the youngsters, they’ll sort it out,’ but I don’t think that is what’s happening,” he says.

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His “sick fascination” with the danger of sharks hooked him as a child, he says; today he is fascinated by how little we know about them.And he thought no children (or more pertinently, TV execs) would want him on screen when he was 50 – “And now I’m 50 and still doing it. If we ever describe them in relation to people it will be to confound expectations and talk about the fact that they are nothing like as dangerous as you might think. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. During his lifetime alone we have taken at least 5bn sharks from the oceans, most so that their fins end up in soup.

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The year also saw him hosting Expeditions wherein, along with his team, he set out on ten adventurous expeditions around the world taking up activities like rafting, trekking and mountain climbing. Lily, 7 years old, and Alfie, 4 years old, dresses as Jim Lad from the Pirate Next Door and Mary Poppins on World Book Day 2019. But Saker needs Sinter to defeat the Clan, and so the two young eco-warriors will come together one more time. In ‘Lost Land of the Volcano’, Steve was the first outsider to enter the Volcano Mount Bosavi – where the team discovered as many as 40 new species, including the largest rat in the world!Millie Barnes, aged 5, dressed as Alice Wonderland ready for World Book Day 2019 at Magdalen Gates School. He meets fifteen year old Sinter, a spoiled rich girl, who is running away from an arranged marriage and their uneasy friendship will eventually form an unshakeable bond, as together they face adventure and danger as two young eco-warriors in a truly threatening world. It’s impossible to talk about it without sounding really woo, but it’s a transcendental experience, one that puts you very in touch with your own body, very aware of where you’re at. Ollie Davis, aged 7, and Charlie Read-Cook, aged 5, with 8 month old baby sister Isla Warmer on World Book Day 2019. It’s a fast-paced show in which Backshall seeks to understand, via close encounters, the deadliest creatures on the planet.