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Napoleon's Orangutan
A collection of miraculous creatures
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Napoleon's Orangutan by Katherine Rundell introduces us to the fascinating story of Napoleon's orangutan, Rose, who ate turnips at the dinner table and stood when guests entered the room. She was much adored, but could not survive in Paris. A pig can be taught to differentiate...
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See moreA pocket-sized wonder from the author of The Golden Mole and Impossible Creatures and gorgeously illustrated by Chris Wormell, containing spellbinding portraits of a dozen animals we should treasure.
A pocket-sized wonder from the author of The Golden Mole and Impossible Creatures and gorgeously illustrated by Chris Wormell, containing spellbinding portraits of a constellation of animals we should treasure.
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Napoleon's Orangutan by Katherine Rundell introduces us to the fascinating story of Napoleon's orangutan, Rose, who ate turnips at the dinner table and stood when guests entered the room. She was much adored, but could not survive in Paris.
A pig can be taught to differentiate between Bach and a brass band. One was once tried for murder: another saved a human's life.
An owl can turn its head two hundred and seventy degrees. They can learn to come at a whistle, and remember the signal for years, if they wish to.
The creatures who share our world are stranger, smarter and more miraculous than you would believe.
In this delightful collection, Katherine Rundell celebrates twelve vanishing animals, each one a wonder that she inspires us to treasure and fight for with love—because, as she argues so beguilingly: The time to give up is never.
'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.' - Observer
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571404230
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 168.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Katherine Rundell is the author of Super-Infinite, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and The Golden Mole, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. Her award-winning books for children have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold over two million copies world wide. Impossible Creatures was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, winner of the Children's Book of the Year at the 2024 British Book Awards and Waterstones Book of the Year 2024.
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