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How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage
By (Author) Sami Bayly
Hachette Australia
Lothian Books
27th September 2023
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
Hardback
32
Width 256mm, Height 256mm, Spine 10mm
425g
Take a fun and accessible deep dive into why certain animals have evolved their unique and distinctive characteristics. This is the second book in a series of evolution origin stories that will teach young readers about evolution and encourage them to think about changes to the natural environment over time, as well as the impact of those changes on our animal species.
Sami Bayly is a natural history illustrator based in Tamworth, NSW, who loves all things weird and wonderful. She finds the beauty and importance of all animals regardless of their appearance, and hopes to share her appreciation with others.
Sami's first book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals, won the Children's Indie Book of the Year Award and the Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers. It was a CBCA Honour Book and was shortlisted for an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children and longlisted for the ABA Booksellers' Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards. Her second book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals, was a CBCA Honour Book, an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children, won an Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers and was shortlisted for the Children's Indie Book of the Year 2020. Sami's most recent book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs has been shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award and longlisted for Children's Indie Book of the Year Award.To keep up to date you can follow Sami on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samibayly/