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The Big Story of Being Alive

A Brilliant Book About What Makes You EXTRAORDINARY
By Neal Layton
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The Big Story of Being Alive by Neal Layton is an engaging children's book that explores the wonders of life on Earth. It takes young readers on a journey through the fascinating processes of nature and the diversity of living things. The book is vividly illustrated and uses simple explanations to spark curiosity about the world and the science behind what makes us all alive.
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You might enjoy this children's book if you're interested in exploring the wonders of life on Earth with your young readers. With engaging illustrations and accessible language, it introduces kids to the marvels of biology and ecology, sparking their curiosity about the natural world and how everything is interconnected.

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The Big Story of Being Alive

In this funny and fact-packed book from award-winning author-illustrator Neal Layton, you'll find out what makes what makes living things like YOU alive and why that's extraordinary.

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Wherever you go, there are lots of people and no one looks quite the same. But they are all ALIVE. YOU are alive too. But what actually makes something ALIVE?

There are three things that all living things have in common: they GROW, they REPRODUCE and they are made of trillions of tiny, but mightily important, organisms called CELLS.

Find out all about them in this fresh, funny and fact-filled book from author and illustrator Neal Layton, you'll discover why being alive is totally AMAZING.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526362643

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wren & Rook

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 274.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 32

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Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Neal Layton

About the Author

Neal is an award-winning illustrator and author of children's books. He has worked on more than 80 titles to date, working with authors such Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen, and won several prizes including a Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize for That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown. His books have also been shortlisted for the Red House Book Awards, the Blue Peter Book Awards, the Booktrust Early Years Award, Funfzig Jahre Deutcher Jugendliteraturpreis and New York Public Library's annual list of Best Children's Books.He also writes his own books, such as eco-picture book A Planet Full of Plastic and 'The Invincible Tony Spears' fiction series. His books are currently in print in more than 16 languages worldwide. He lives in Portsmouth with his wife and two daughters.

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