Immense World, An

How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
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The New York Times bestseller now available with beautiful full-colour illustrations for young readers! Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong. Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That... Read More
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Immense World, An

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The New York Times bestseller now available with beautiful full-colour illustrations for young readers! Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong.

Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other? Or that giant squids evolved their enormous eyeballs to look out for whales?

The world is so much BIGGER and more immense than we humans experience it. We can only see so many colours, we can only feel so many sensations, and there are some senses we can't access at all.

Exploring the amazing ways animals perceive the world is an excellent way to help understand the world itself. And this young readers adaptation of the mega-bestseller An Immense World is perfect for curious kids and their families. Sure to capture young readers' interest, it is filled with amazing animal facts and stunning full-colour illustrations.

Along the way are tons of amazing animal facts - Did you know that leopard pee smells like popcorn? That there is a special kind of shrimp whose punches are faster than a bullet? That it's important to take your dog for dedicated "smell walks?" Want to know the real reason zebras have stripes? (Hint: it's not for camouflage.) Pick up this enthralling and enormously entertaining book to find out!

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593810880

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 May 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Illustration: FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who until recently was a staff writer at The Atlantic. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and more. He talked about mind-controlling parasites at the TED2014 conference, and his talk has been viewed more than 1.4 million times. He is the winner of the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award, a National Academies Keck Science Communication Award and awards from the Association of British Science Writers for Best Science Blog and Best Communication of Science in a Non-Science Context.

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