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That's Life!

Looking for the Living Things All Around You
By Mike Barfield
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Packed full of illustrations, exciting experiments - and even comic strips - That's Life! encourages young scientists to start looking for the living things around them. Life is everywhere on planet Earth. Jungles, deserts, seas, plains, fields, and forests - all of them teem with life... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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That's Life!

A beautiful guide to life on Earth for children aged 8+.

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Packed full of illustrations, exciting experiments - and even comic strips - That's Life! encourages young scientists to start looking for the living things around them.

Life is everywhere on planet Earth. Jungles, deserts, seas, plains, fields, and forests - all of them teem with life but, amazingly, you can also find lots of living things hidden in your home, and even hidden inside you! Join Sherlock Ohms and his companions on a brilliant biological adventure, seeking out all kinds of life, including the life forms hiding in your own home!

That's Life! is the follow-up to The Element in the Room (shortlisted for The Blue Peter Book Awards 2019 and The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2019. Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2020).

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781510231986

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 February 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Lauren Humphrey

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 290.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 64

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Laurence King Publishing Mike Barfield Non-Fiction Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Science & Nature

About the Author

Mike Barfield (Author)

Mike Barfield is a best-selling children's author, cartoonist, poet and performer with books in well over a dozen different languages. He has a first-class degree in Biology from the University of London, and won the Blue Peter Book Awards 2021 for the Best Book with Facts.

Lauren Humphrey (Illustrator)

Lauren Humphrey is an illustrator with 10 years' experience, based in London, UK. Lauren loves working with bright colours, bold shapes and is often inspired by plants, animals and anatomy. She enjoys drawing characters and objects with unique proportions and perspectives. Her experience ranges from illustrating children's informative picture books to designing puppets, sets and props for animation series.

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