By Camilla de la Bedoyere (author) , Vasilisa Romanenko (illustrator)
"Discover some of the biggest and smallest things in the natural world, from colossal squids to snowflakes, a life-sized look at nature"
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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month November 2023
Explore the very varied sizes of some of the biggest and the smallest things in the natural world through the many life-size illustrations in this book. These include the tiny box jellyfish and pygmy squid among those on the small side and a massive Siberian tiger claw which gives a sense of the scale of the whole animal. Where a full size illustration is not possible there is useful guidance on how to magnify it up or down.
Matching the illustrations are brief explanatory texts making the whole a good source of easy to understand, bite-size information.
This book explores the wonders of nature with awe-inspiring, realistic illustrations at life-size. Across each fascinating spread, beautiful artwork shows breathtakingly large or unbelievably small natural wonders, including eyes, wings, tentacles, sand, snowflakes, flowers and much more, all at real-life sized, or zoomed in for extra interest. Marvel at the dinner-plate-sized eye of the colossal squid, the rainforest flowers you can sit inside, the fingernail-width dwarf blue butterfly and what sand really looks like when magnified.
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Paired with captivating information about these incredible things, size comparisons and extra fun facts, this book will have you absorbed with the littlest and largest things on our astonishing planet.
The majority of the stunning illustrations throughout are life-size, so children can compare themselves to various things in the natural world. Features a mixture of both animal and non-animal subjects, such as flowers, sand, crystals and fungi. Full of detailed facts that relate specifically to the size of things in the natural world, as well as ones that provide a more general overview of subjects.
A glossary of key terms is included in the back, as well as a chart converting metric measurements to imperial measurements.
Camilla de la Bedoyere was a teacher for 10 years before she became a full-time non-fiction author. She studied Zoology and Geology at Bristol University, and has subsequently written or edited more than 250 books for children and adults, many of which aim to explain and explore the natural world and our relationship with it Camilla is a specialist literacy teacher at a London high school, developing reading skills and encouraging a love of learning through books.
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This book explores the wonders of nature with awe-inspiring, realistic illustrations at life-size. Across each fascinating spread, beautiful artwork shows breathtakingly large or unbelievably small natural wonders, including eyes, wings, tentacles, sand, snowflakes, flowers and much more, all at real-life sized, or zoomed in for extra interest.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Size Wise and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Size Wise features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, Science, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, The Natural World, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Size Wise was written by Camilla de la Bedoyere and published by Buster Books an imprint of Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Size Wise has 93 pages
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