The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals by Sami Bayly - ISBN: 9780734424143
Discover the beauty of the world’s most peculiar and ugly animals.
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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals

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    29 September 2026

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Summary

Immerse yourself in the hidden world of ugly animals with this magnificent 1000-piece puzzle of the animal kingdom’s most unusual species.

Sami Bayly’s bestselling compendium of ugliness comes to life in The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals Jigsaw. Piece together some truly remarkable beauty-challenged animals and learn about science and nature along the way. From the naked mole rat to the goblin shark, the fangtooth moray to the aye-aye, the proboscis monkey to the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780734424143
ISBN-10:0734424140
Author:Sami Bayly
Publisher:Hachette Australia
Imprint:Lothian Children's Books
Release Date:29 September 2026
Weight:300g
Series:The Illustrated Encyclopaedia series
About The Author

Sami Bayly

Sami Bayly is a natural history illustrator based in Newcastle, NSW, who loves all things weird and wonderful. She finds the beauty and importance of all animals regardless of their appearance, and hopes to share her appreciation with others.

Sami’s first book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals, won the Children’s Indie Book of the Year Award and the Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers. It was a CBCA Honour Book and was shortlisted for an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children and longlisted for the ABA Booksellers’ Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards.

Her second book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals, was a CBCA Honour Book, an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children, won an Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers and was shortlisted for the Children’s Indie Book of the Year 2020.

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs was shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award and longlisted for Children’s Indie Book of the Year Award.

Sami’s most recent books are How We Came to Be: Surprising Sea Creatures, How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals and The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Fast and Slow Animals.

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