CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK - PRESS ASSOCIATION
Heard about the fish that clean shark teeth? Or the frog that lives with a tarantula? Welcome to the weird world of symbiosis – where animals form incredible relationships.
Macken Murphy, host of the popular animal podcast Species, introduces his favourite symbiotic relationships in his first kids’ nonfiction book, Animal Sidekicks. Along the way he explains the cool science behind the baffling behaviour of some animals – from friendly alliances to pesky parasites. Alongside him, illustrator Dragan Kordic skilfully brings to life head-scratching relationships in nature, including:
- The crab that wears a sea urchin as a hat
- The bat that goes to bed inside a plant
- The warthog that likes a mongoose massage
You’ll even find out about symbiotic relationships including YOU! (Hint – is your head ever itchy?) By the end of the book you won’t look at nature in the same way again!
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Unless they're trying to eat each other, most animals want nothing to do with each other. Creatures of all kinds tend to stick to their own.
Dragan Kordic is a Croatian based illustrator and is the illustrator of Pop Up Planet Oceans, Pop Up Planet Dinosaurs and Pop Up Planet Animals. After he got his master’s degree in Applied Graphics he worked as a graphic designer, mostly in culture and educational domain, as a poster artist and illustrator. Besides being an art enthusiast, he f
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