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Nose Knows

Wild Ways Animals Smell the World

Emmanuelle Figueras author Claire de Gastold illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:What on Earth Publishing Ltd

Published:3rd Oct '19

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Nose Knows cover

Take a fresh look at the world from an animal’s perspective. In this fun flap-filled book, you’ll learn how smell plays a key role in the lives of animals and shapes their behaviour and relationships. Each flap reveals the hidden side to each environment only perceptible through smell. Watch a polar bear track its prey beneath the ice, join a column of marching ants, and learn how to say hello to a family of forest piglets. Anything is possible when you follow your nose!

"Many lift-flaps offer titbits of astonishing facts in a truly marvellous book with outstanding illustrations by Claire de Gastold."

* Irish Examiner *

"Brilliant, just brilliant Claire de Gastold's illustrations are beautiful, clear and informative."

* Just Imagine *

"Wonderfully entertaining and informative ... An ingenious, interactive way of learning that is not to be sniffed at."

* Lancashire Evening Post *

"A fascinating insight into the noses of wild animals and the extent to which their sense of smell operates. There are plenty of strange-but-true facts that will appeal to young readers."

* Armadillo Magazine *

“In this fascinating book the reader is invited to ‘take a fresh sniff at the world from an animal’s perspective’ and explore the different roles that a sense of smell plays in shaping animal behaviour and relationships … Supported by full-colour illustrations, the reader’s interest is further sustained through the use of flaps which when lifted often revealsurprising facts."

-- Carolyn Swain * English 4-11 Picture Book Editorial Board *

"The ‘lift the flaps’ were great fun, but alsovery informative … The illustrations are also wonderful and, in fact, make this book something of a showpiece. The drawings are fun, yet accurate and life-like, adding to the educational value of the book."

-- Charlotte Townsend * The English Associati

ISBN: 9781912920068

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

38 pages