An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

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Ed Yong Rebecca Mills

An Immense World (Young Readers Edition)

Name: An Immense World (Young Readers Edition)
Price: 35.95 AUD
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ISBN: 9780593810910

How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

Ed Yong, Rebecca Mills

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Bright Matter Books
08 September 2026

General knowledge & trivia (Children's&YA); Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA); Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA); Mysteries & the supernatural (Children's&YA)

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 experience it. We can only see so many colors, we can only feel so many sensations, and there are some senses we can't access at all.

Exploring the amazing ways animals perceive the world is an excellent way to help understand the world itself. And this young readers adaptation of the mega-bestseller An Immense World is perfect for curious kids and their families. Sure to capture young readers' interest it is filled amazing animal facts and stunning full-color illustrations.

Along the way are tons of amazing animals facts: Did you know that leopard pee smells like popcorn? That there is a special kind of shrimp whose punches are faster than a bullet? That it's important to take your dog for dedicated ""smell walks?"" Want to know the real reason zebras have stripes? (hint: it's not for camouflage)? Pick up this enthralling and enormously entertaining book to find out!

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

By: Ed Yong
Illustrated by: Rebecca Mills
Imprint: Bright Matter Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780593810910
ISBN 10: 0593810910
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 September 2026
Recommended Age: From 9 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for An Immense World (Young Readers Edition): How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard 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