What a wonderful book! Love the layout and the humour which makes for fun, easy reading for children with lots of brilliant facts and gorgeous illustrations. I would love to get this book in hardcopy for my daughters

Again, another book that dispels common myths, this time about what people think they know about animals in nature, such that all dinosaurs are extinct, or that all plants eat through photosynthesis. Because dinosaurs evolved into birds, and some plants are carnivores.

Other myths that are dispelled is that all mammals give birth to live young. But if you consider the duck-billed platypus, and the echidna, who both lay eggs, then bang goes that theory.

And of course the plants that do not get their food from the sun include such plants as the Venus flytrap, which eats insects, and mistletoe, which is a parasite that attaches to other plants, and gets its food from them.

The author also brings up the fact that strawberries aren’t actually berries, and bananas that actually are.

Kids will enjoy learning all these fun facts and probably will then turn around and spout them to friends and family. Did you know that an avocado is also considered a berry?

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 21st of January 2025.

There is a lot of information in this book. It can be overwhelming when it is this packed full. The illustrations make it less overwhelming though. It is well organized and interesting.

This is an intriguing book with eyecatching illustrations that is sure to inspire a love of nature among its young readers. The variety of coverage is wonderful and some of the facts very unusual and interesting! This would suit any intellectually curious child. I really appreciated the geological timeline at the end which is a really useful reference tool even for adults. A warning - I had to skip the page with spiders which was a bit too vivid for arachnophobic me… can imagine kids who love creepy crawlies adoring that page though haha!

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance Digital Copy for review consideration.