Immense World, An
How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
$42.49
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2025
Summary
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?
The world is so much BIGGER and more “immense” than we humans experi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593810880 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593810880 |
| Author: | Ed Yong, Rebecca Mills |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 774g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 478mm x 201mm |
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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
A CCBC Choices List Selection!
★ “An insightful and informative look at the animal kingdom with high appeal for lovers of nature and science.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Accessible and enjoyable….further encourage[s] readers to think about senses and animals in new ways.” —Booklist, starred review
★ “Intriguing and thought-provoking….A fascinating tour through the world of animal senses, this will be popular with animal lovers and collectors of weird-but-true nature facts.” —School Library Journal, starred review
”[A] highly digestible, wonderfully captivating read for a broad age range.” —The Bulletin
About The Author
Ed Yong
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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