Did you know that a ten-year-old child could curl up on the ear-flap of an African elephant?
Author: Carlos da Cruz
Finnish original: Eläinten mitalla
Publisher: Teos, 2016
Genre: Children’s nonfiction, illustrated
Number of pages: 36 pp.
Reading material: French original, Finnish translation, English translation
Rights sold: World French, Circonflexe
Animals are extraordinarily small and astonishingly big. In the animal world, things happen all the time. A bee hummingbird the size of your little finger hatches from an egg the size of a bilberry; a lion jumps the length of a bus; and a blue whale makes a meal of shellfish a couple of centimetres long, even though a hundred people could fit into its plankton-filtering maw.
Aglow with colour, Animal Scalebook is an inspiring children’s science book about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb. We encounter the spiky hedgehog, snufing along the ground, and the giraffe as it reaches for the highest branches of the tree. Along the way we also meet sea blubber, with its hundreds of stinging tentacles, dozens of metres long, and the white rhinoceros, which can run faster than the world’s fastest human!
Animal Scalebook respects the enchanting uniqueness of the animal kingdom and sets mankind’s place in the fragile diversity of life.
“A splendid and informative picture book with fun examples
about the size of animals in relation to familiar things or
the size of humans. […] The illustration is nicely uncomplicated
and the colour palette is bound to please a grown-up eye.”
– Kirkko ja Kaupunki newspaper
“This book is a very fine, enlightening book for all children who
like detailed knowledge.”
– Book blog Sininen keskitie
Also available:
Dinosaur Scalebook (2018)
Fish Scalebook (2019)
About the author:
Carlos da Cruz