In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him.

So, when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally gone a bit mad. But the animals have something to say. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?

This wonderful book, The Last Wild, is used here as inspiration for descriptive writing before engaging pupils with some thought provoking questions about our future world.