Explore Your World: Weird, Wild, Amazing!: Explore Your World #1

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Getready for a whole new look at the world aroundyou.
Youre about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet.

Are zombie jellyfish real
Do frogs like opera
Which animals eat poop (And more importantly, WHY!)
Whats it like to wrestle a python

Buckle up youre about to find out!
Bursting with bizarre facts, packed with vibrant illustrationsand guided by one of the worlds greatest living scientists,Professor Tim Flannery, this deep-dive into the natural world will enthral and enlighten readers. It will also make them laugh out loud and squirm in disgust.

• Shortlisted for the 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction and 2020 Environment Award for Children's Literature
• Longlisted for the 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children

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'The popular naturalist reaches for a younger audience with a mix of basic and oddball facts about more than 50 wild creatures.

With much reference to poo and goo, Flannery ratchets down his usual level of discourse to focus on essentials: the weaponized vomit of turkey vultures, for instance, Snot Studies, and anatomical insights such as the special help that tree kangaroos get from masses of stomach worms in digesting their food. The entries, loosely organized by habitat, each also offer observations on geographical range, typical diet, distinctive physical features, and, often, challenges posed by climate or environmental change. Along with an autobiographical introduction and personal notes about encounters with some of his wild subjects, the author tucks in glances at broad topics such as evolution, extinction, and scientific nomenclature too. Caldwell goes mostly for splashes of bright color and silly riffs in his illustrations, so naturalistic detail takes a back seat to a male blue whale in a lounge singers dress, courting scorpion and seahorse couples in ballroom garb, and like follies. Readers who relish learning about a tree-climbing turtle or how moths love pretending to be things theyre not, like hornets or eyeballs or lumps of poop, will be well rewarded.

Afun book, as promised.' Kirkus Review

Author Bio

Professor Tim Flannery is one of the worlds leading scientists, explorers and conservationists. Hes spent most of his life studying the natural world from mammalogy to palaeontology and has had some incredible adventures along the way, including floating down crocodile-infested rivers and wrestling pythons. Hes discovered 75 new species of animals some that are still living, and others that have been preserved as fossils.Hes worked at museums and universities in Australia and around the world, includingas Director of the South Australian Museum,Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Australian Museum. He established and co-chaired the Copenhagen Climate Council, was appointed Australias first Climate Commissioner and is the Founder and Chief Councillor of the Australian Climate Council. In 2007, he was named Australian of the Year.He has published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers and more thanthirty books, including the award-winningHere on Earth(2010),Atmosphere of Hope(2015) andThe Weather Makers(2005), which has been translated into over 20 languages. This is his first book for children.

Sam Caldwell has a particular talent for illustrating the worlds strangest and most fascinating creatures. He grew up in the north of England and now lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where he works as an illustrator and designer. Sam studied painting at the Edinburgh College of Art and is passionate about using texture and colour to tell stories with his art. His illustrations are regularly featured in magazines and newspapers, includingThe Guardian,The IndependentandThe Sydney Morning Herald, and his previous books includeSneaky Shadowsby SC Manchild.