Unseen Worlds

Discover a hidden universe of microscopic monsters right before your eyes. Unfold each page to reveal stunningly detailed illustrations bursting with jelly-like amoebae, predatory centipedes, ravenous mosquitos and more mites than you could imagine. From the murky ocean depths to your kitchen cupboard and even inside your nose, you'll travel to locations both familiar and strange as you search for the smallest creatures on Planet Earth. You'll never see the world the same way again! Youth Book Services Review

"Disgustingly fascinating!...The world will never feel the same again after reading this book!" Juno "Entertaining and informative...and a valuable teaching tool." Lancashire Evening Post "Fold-out pages and a wonderful range of facts to learn...books like this fascinate me." A Little but a Lot "This well-designed book with attractive illustrations makes a yucky topic look quite lovely and the brief, simple text keeps is accessible and interesting." Booktrust "One of those books that taps into children's natural curiosity and passion for interesting, fascinating, weird and wonderful facts...Beautiful illustrations throughout that are also very detailed, to scale and labelled to link the creature to the fact." Just Imagine "Enough grossly fascinating facts and bizarre creatures to make every reader twitch, itch and scratch." Armadillo Microscopic 'mini-fauna' rarely receives even a footnote in a most children's books. Unseen Worlds attempts to put that right with a series of dramatic dioramas of everyday habitats and tiny, but no less charming, animals they contain. Crucially, scale-bars and species' labels on each page keep the focus on science, plus there is a handy section about how microscopes work and the history of microscopy to inspire a new generation of wannabe microbiologists. Unseen Worlds delivers a simple message that resonates throughout: think small, understand big. It's a jungle out there. Everywhere. BBC Wildlife Magazine

Helene Rajcak was born in 1981. She has studied engraving at the Ecole Estienne, illustration at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and undertook a foundation course in textile design at the Atelier National d'art Textile. She lives and works in Paris as an illustrator for media and children's books and works on her own design, painting and engraving projects too.

Damien Laverdunt was born in 1978. He studied at the Duperre Schoold of Applied Arts and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. He lives and works in Paris as an author, designer and graphic artist. When not working on projects he teaches applied art at the Lycee de Sevres.

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