Wild Wonders: Celebrating the planet’s most misunderstood, unloved and overlooked animals

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Ben Rothery Ben Rothery

Wild Wonders

Name: Wild Wonders
Price: 32.99 AUD
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ISBN: 9780241688953

Celebrating the planet’s most misunderstood, unloved and overlooked animals

Ben Rothery, Ben Rothery

$32.99

Hardback

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English

Ladybird
25 August 2026

General knowledge & trivia (Children's&YA); Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA); Reference works (Children's&YA)

A breathtaking visual celebration of some of the incredible animals that are often overlooked and misunderstood.

in his new book, Ben Rothery sets out to inform and inspire children to look after all the animals on this precious planet - not just the big, bold, beautiful ones, but the scary, ugly and utterly alien ones as well. From misunderstood animals like snakes and sharks, to detested creatures like maggots and hyenas, and from animals with unlucky associations like magpies, to those abandoned by us like orangutans, meet the animals that need and deserve our love.

By: Ben Rothery
Illustrated by: Ben Rothery
Imprint: Ladybird
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 223mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9780241688953
ISBN 10: 0241688957
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 25 August 2026
Recommended Age: From 5 to 7 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ben Rothery is a detail-obsessed illustrator from Norwich, via Cape Town. He combines multiple processes to create intricate and delicate illustrations and repeating patterns, full of fine detail and vibrant colour. Much of Ben's work is inspired or informed by his love of nature - he grew up wanting variously to be a shark, dinosaur or David Attenborough crossed with Indiana Jones, but settled upon illustration as a compromise that allowed him to bring those fantasies to life on paper. Ben works from a small but perfectly formed studio in London, which he shares with an unnecessarily large collection of very sharp pencils.