An Immense World
How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · May 13, 2025
The New York Times bestseller now available with beautiful full-color illustrations for young readers!
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- Who it’s for
- Animal perception turns familiar nature into a world stranger and more expansive than our own.
- Themes
- Animal senses and perception, Unusual animal abilities
- Genres
- Animals & Zoology, Animal Facts, Biology & Life Science
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The New York Times bestseller now available with beautiful full-color 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?
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The world is so much BIGGER and more "immense" than we humans experience it. We can only see so many colors, 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 amazing animal facts and stunning full-color illustrations. Along the way are tons of amazing animals 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 • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Beyond Human Senses
Animal perception turns familiar nature into a world stranger and more expansive than our own.
Come here for
- Curious animal facts, from magnetic-field tracking turtles to electric fish
- A fresh way to think about how animals experience the world
Expect
- Playful science for young readers and families
- Full-color illustrations alongside surprising sensory discoveries
Where it sits
| Animal Facts | 57% |
|---|---|
| Animals & Zoology | 48% |
| Biology & Life Science | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Animal Facts
- Wonder & Curiosities
- Animals & Zoology
- Authors
- Ed Yong
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- May 13, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Animal senses and perception · Unusual animal abilities
- Reading lane
- Animal Facts