Lifesize

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Let's go on a LIFESIZE adventure!

Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of the world's most amazing animals. High-five a polar bear to discover who has the biggest paw and peer through the die-cut to find out how you'd look with a giant squid eye.

Silver Award winner in the Made for MumsAwards 2020

This interactive non-fiction adventure features LIFESIZE illustrations of some of the smallest and largest animals in the world and invites children to compare parts of their bodies with these amazing animals.

This huge, playful book is the perfect introduction to animals for young children and is the first non-fiction book from picture book star, Sophy Henn.

Climb into the book for a truly wild adventure . . .

Try the other books in the series for more LIFESIZE fun!
LIFESIZE DINOSAURS (9781405293952)
LIFESIZE BABY ANIMALS (9781405299497)
LIFESIZE DEADLY ANIMALS (9780008534301)
LIFESIZE CREEPY CRAWLIES (World Book Day 2023) (9780008591304)

Sophy Henn's book Lifesize Creepy Crawlies was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 13-02-2023.

Sophy Henn is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator with an MA in Illustration from the University of Brighton. She is the creator of the much-loved Pom Pom series and her book Where Bear was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize. Sophy was the World Book Day Illustrator in 2015 and 2016.

Height: 1.75metres (Or almost 6 Lifesize books laid end to end!)
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Reviews

Henns illustrations, which appear to be digitally created, are bright, bold, and welcoming. Kirkus Reviews

Cleverly designed around the question How big Henns oversize book illustrates animals and their parts in real-life size. Clean, bright colors capture everything from an elephants toenail to the diminutive bee hummingbird Publishers Weekly

Interactive picture book fun at its best, LIFESIZE is a great way to indulge in some animal themed fun. My Book Corner

Sophy Henns broad painterly background suggests the animals natural habitat. The Lifesize measuring makes us feel part of that landscape. Bookwagon

Its never too early to start sharing the message that were part of the nautral world, not its master. This is why Lifesize by Sophy Henn captured my attention. National Geographic Traveller Books to Save the World

Author Bio

Sophy Henn is the acclaimed picture book maker behind Where Bear, Pass It On, Edie, and the adorable Pom Pom series. She studied at Camberwell and Central Saint Martins, and is a graduate of the MA in Sequential Illustration at the University of Brighton. Her debut title, Where Bear, was shortlisted for the AOI Illustration Awards 2014 and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2015. Her subsequent titles have gone on to great success, and Sophy was chosen as the World Book Day illustrator in 2015. Sophy is letting her wicked side out in this exciting new series for slightly older readers!