Fantastiska fakta om djurungar Amazing Facts About Baby Animals
A whimsically illustrated collection of fascinating, surprising, and funny facts about baby animals and their parents, from the author of The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts.
Who doesn’t love baby animals? Amazing Facts About Baby Animals is an adorable celebration of all kinds of fuzzy, fluffy, scaly, and feathery animal babies and their parents. This charming collection by beloved Swedish artist Maja Säfström is full of interesting, weird, and funny facts about animals before they are born (elephants are pregnant for 22 months!), when they are born (whales are born tail-first so they don’t drown!), and life as babies (parrots give their offspring names! Baby macaques have snowball fights!). Perfect for art- and nature-loving kids and adults, this sweet book makes a wonderful gift and conversation starter for the whole family.
Awards
The Carl von Linné Plaque (Best children’s non-fiction work of the year) Sweden | 2020 |
Reviews
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“A new remarkable book with amazing facts about animals. /…/ The illustrations are detailed yet clean and playful, all the while focusing on the animal’s specific characteristics. /…/ This isn’t a traditional nonfiction title, but rather the perfect book for sparking an interest in knowing and reading more about animals. Amazing Facts About Baby Animals really knows how to stir both children’s and adults’ imagination, and make them marvel at the incredible diversity of nature.”
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“Maja truly has a gift when it comes to collecting astonishing facts and packaging them in the most delightful way. Her trademark are prints with adorable black and white illustrations of animals that tend to be doing/saying something unexpected and in book format you get the best of everything! The perfect gift for all ages, for fact and animal lovers alike. A feast for the eyes!”
- Author
- Maja Säfström
- Published
- 2019
- Genre
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- Art & literary
- Pages
- 112
- Reading material
Swedish edition
English edition
- Rights sold
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China, Jieli (Simplified Chinese)
Czech Republic, Albatros
Finland, Nemo
France, Rue du Monde
Germany, Random House
Italy, Nomos
Japan, Kagaku Dojin
Korea, Grimmsi Publishing
Netherlands, Podium
Romania, Editura Cartier
Russia, Popuri
Slovakia, Albatros
Spain, Planeta
Sweden, Natur & Kultur
Türkiye, Meav
UK, HarperCollins
US, Ten Speed Press