Immense World (Young Readers Edition), An
How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets
$21.25
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2026
Summary
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 human…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593810910 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0593810910 |
| Author: | Ed Yong, Rebecca Mills |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-12 |
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Critics Review
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
A CCBC Choices List 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
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer and a former staff writer at The Atlantic. His work has also been published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others.
He delivered a TED Talk in 2014 on mind-controlling parasites, which has garnered over 1.4 million views.
Yong is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award, and a National Academies Keck Science Communication Award. He has also been recognized by the Association of British Science Writers for Best Science Blog and Best Communication of Science in a Non-Science Context.
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