If the World Were 100 Animals: A Visual Guide to Earth's Amazing Creatures

by Miranda Smith, Aaron Cushley (Illustrator)

Overview

Help your child understand the creatures that share our world and how we can protect them with these big ideas expressed through bite-size chunks of information and eye-opening graphics. This fascinating companion to If the World Were 100 People is perfect for home and classroom settings!

With around 20 quintillion animals on Earth, it's impossible to know everything about them all! However, if we shrink that number down to 100, we can picture a global park that lets us learn about our fellow living creatures. 
 
An accessible introduction to our planet's creatures, perfect for fact-hungry animal lovers!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593372371
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	07/05/2022
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD1000L (what's this?)
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Miranda Smith has written and edited information books and articles for children and adults on a variety of subjects. Like the children she writes for, she likes to explore and find out about new things. Recently, she has visited Peru’s Machu Picchu and jumped out of an airplane and is deciding how to relate these to her writing and what to do next!

Aaron Cushley is an illustrator and a doodler of dogs. From Belfast, he
studied illustration and graphic design at the Belfast School of Art and Design. Aaron's work stems from his inner child and the innocence and creativity that emerges when he holds a pencil.

Editorial Reviews

2022-09-14
Things to know about our planet’s animal kingdom, in easily digestible infographics.

Rightly judging that 20 quintillion (an estimate of how many animals live on Earth) is a number that is “hard to picture,” Smith reduces it to 100. In a hypothetical world of only 100 animals, Smith explains, six would be vertebrates and 94 invertebrates. If there were only 100 vertebrates in the world, 43 would be fish, 23 would be birds, 14 would be reptiles, 11 would be amphibians, and nine would be mammals. One hundred sea dwellers would include nine known species and (wait for it) 91 “still to be discovered.” Bringing in the human element, Smith charts animals that do or do not live in the wild (with a racially diverse set of 36 humans mischievously placed in the middle), that share our homes (“23 are cats”), that are deadly to us (mosquitoes lead by a large margin), and that, unless we do something, are most in danger of disappearing. As he did in a companion volume, Jackie McCann’s If the World Were 100 People (2021), Cushley gives literal visual dimension to the data by gathering realistically depicted images of tiny creatures, 100 per spread and done roughly to scale whenever feasible, in appropriately sized groups. Along with allowing viewers to grasp the relative proportions instantly, the arrangement, at once logical and ingenious, invites poring over the pages to identify individual species or just to appreciate their glorious diversity. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

An eye-opening, and sometimes -widening, survey. (source list) (Informational picture book. 7-10)

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