An Immense World Young Readers Editi..., Ed Yong
An Immense World Young Readers Editi..., Ed Yong
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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition)
How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

Author: Ed Yong

Narrator: Rose Eveleth

Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/13/2025


Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller now available for young listeners! Explore the amazing ways animals see, hear, and feel the world, with Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong.

Did you know that there are turtles who can track the Earth's magnetic fields? That some fish use electricity to talk to each other? Or that giant squids evolved their enormous eyeballs to look out for whales?

The world is so much BIGGER and more "immense" than we humans experience it. We can only see so many colors, we can only feel so many sensations, and there are some senses we can't access at all.

Exploring the amazing ways animals perceive the world is an excellent way to help understand the world itself. And this young listeners adaptation of the mega-bestseller An Immense World is perfect for curious kids and their families. Sure to capture young listeners' interest, it is filled with amazing animal facts.

Along the way are tons of amazing animals facts: Did you know that leopard pee smells like popcorn? That there is a special kind of shrimp whose punches are faster than a bullet? That it's important to take your dog for dedicated "smell walks?" Want to know the real reason zebras have stripes? (hint: it's not for camouflage)? Listen to this enthralling and enormously entertaining audiobook to find out!

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

About The Author

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who until recently was a staff writer at The Atlantic. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and more. He talked about mind-controlling parasites at the TED2014 conference, and his talk has been viewed more than 1.4 million times. He is the winner of the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award, a National Academies Keck Science Communication Award and awards from the Association of British Science Writers for Best Science Blog and Best Communication of Science in a Non-Science Context.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 22, 2025

4 1/2 stars. Why no sources or further reading. or were those just missing in the ARC? We know the world through our senses, but that is a mere slice of reality. Exploring the perceptions of other animals reveals an unimagined and immense world. Twelve chapters explore animal senses, typically openin......more


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A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
A CCBC Choices List Selection!


★ "An insightful and informative look at the animal kingdom with high appeal for lovers of nature and science." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

★ "Accessible and enjoyable....further encourage[s] readers to think about senses and animals in new ways." —Booklist, starred review

★ "Intriguing and thought-provoking....A fascinating tour through the world of animal senses, this will be popular with animal lovers and collectors of weird-but-true nature facts." —School Library Journal, starred review

"[A] highly digestible, wonderfully captivating read for a broad age range." —The Bulletin