Nose Knows: Wild Ways Animals Smell the World

by Emmanuelle Figueras, Claire de Gastold (Illustrator)

Overview

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 behavior 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912920075
Publisher:	What on Earth Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Series:	Wild Ways Series
Pages:	38
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 13.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Emmanuelle Figueras was born in French Guiana. While studying law in Paris, she discovered a passion for writing, popular science and the animal world. She went on to study gorillas in Rwanda, took a course in primatology and became a journalist and author. She writes about animals and science for numerous magazines and is the author of over 50 books for both adults and children. She lives in France.

Claire de Gastold was born in Paris in 1978. Her work has been published in magazines and she has illustrated several children’s books. She lives near Paris in France.

Editorial Reviews

"A survey of the many ways we and other animals use and detect odors … Whiffs of humor lighten the informational load. A fresh, factual blast with hints of drollery." - Kirkus Reviews

“[Nose Knows] offers a snootful of information independent readers and scientifically inclined preschoolers will enjoy." - Publishers Weekly

"With its variety of species, colorful illustrations and lots of flaps the reader will be intrigued to explore how animals, including humans, smell with their noses and how it impacts their life day to day." - Youth Services Book Review

"The book is organized into seven sections, and features large, colorful illustrations that bring the text to life, many with a lift-the-flap feature that pack an impressive amount of information ... A terrific find for science units on animal behavior and useful for student browsing." - School Library Journal

"Trunks, snouts, rostrums, muffles, beaks, and muzzles take center stage in this captivating investigation into the power of smell. Arranged by theme and loosely progressing from basic concepts (what smell is) to specific animal behaviors ... Figueras adeptly presents complex concepts in accessible language ... De Gastold’s realistic illustrations engagingly incorporate amusing details ... and are augmented by lift-the-flap features that offer varying perspectives, zoomed-in views, and additional facts." - Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2019-08-26
A survey of the many ways we and other animals use and detect odors.

In this large-format French import, lightweight flaps hide inside views, diagrams, and close-ups added to De Gastold's whimsical scenes of expressively posed animals and (racially diverse) people sniffing air or water to track down prey or other food, identify mates or offspring, detect danger, and offer clues to migratory routes. The flap on which two seals swim beneath a thick layer of sea ice that separates them from a sniffing polar bear lifts to reveal a seal coming up for breath—right into the jaws of the bear; a pigeon-shaped flap lifts to reveal an aerial view of that pigeon sniffing its way home. Figueras explains in simple but specific language how the "high tech instruments" of creatures including dogs, sharks, elephants ("superheroes of smell"), and ants process pheromones and other odorant molecules. Readers also learn, memorably, how male giraffes smell and taste the urine of females to check out their hormone levels and male ring-tailed lemurs produce a "stomach-churning perfume" to engage in "smell battles" with rivals. These whiffs of humor lighten the informational load…though serious-minded young biologists will still prefer Mary Holland's Animal Noses (2019), with its more naturalistic photographs. Suggested titles for further reading are limited to three British books and two in French.

A fresh, factual blast with hints of drollery. (index) (Informational novelty. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews