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An Immense World (Young Readers Edition)

How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

Author Ed Yong
Read by Rose Eveleth
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On sale May 13, 2025 | 5 Hours and 14 Minutes | 9798217171378

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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
  • SELECTION | 2026
    MASL Dogwood Readers Award
  • SELECTION | 2025
    Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books
© Deanne Fitzmaurice
ED YONG is the author of two prize-winning New York Times bestsellers, An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award in 2021 for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024. His work has appeared in many publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, and The New Yorker; he was also featured in three editions of the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, which he then guest-edited in 2021. He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.9 million people. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Liz Neeley, founder of Liminal Creations, and his corgi, Typo. He is almost certainly looking at birds right now. View titles by Ed Yong
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard 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

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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

Awards

  • SELECTION | 2026
    MASL Dogwood Readers Award
  • SELECTION | 2025
    Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books

Author

© Deanne Fitzmaurice
ED YONG is the author of two prize-winning New York Times bestsellers, An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes. He won a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award in 2021 for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024. His work has appeared in many publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, and The New Yorker; he was also featured in three editions of the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, which he then guest-edited in 2021. He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.9 million people. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Liz Neeley, founder of Liminal Creations, and his corgi, Typo. He is almost certainly looking at birds right now. View titles by Ed Yong

Praise

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard 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