Genius Noses: A Curious Animal Compendium

Genius NosesThis beautiful collection of animal noses around the world tells kids everything they ever wanted to know about animal noses. A Table of Contents divides the book into Flying Creatures, Ground-dwellers, Underground Diggers, Happiest When Hanging Out In Trees, and Water Creatures. Aardvarks, Dik-Diks, Pigs, Proboscis Monkeys, Coatis, and many, many more are clearly explained and illustrated in detail. A comprehensive Glossary, Notes, and a thorough index are included. The front endpapers show a world map and the back endpapers depict many animals drawn to scale, compared to humans. The witty drawings rendered in ink and colored pencil round out this impressive work. mjw
Title: Genius Noses: A Curious Animal Compendium
Author: Lena Anlauf
Illustrator
: Vitali Konstantinov
Publisher
: NorthSouth Books, New York
Copyright
: 2023
Original Language
: German
Translator
: Marshall Yarbrough
Original Title
: Geniale Nasen
Original Publisher
: NordSud Verlag AG. Zurich, Switzerland
Original Copyright
: 2023
ISBN
: 978-0-7358-4535-0
Hardcover pages
: 64
Age range
: 6-12
Genre
: Picture Book, Nonfiction, Information Book
Author’s ethnicity
: German
Author’s residence
: Marburg, Germany
Illustrator’s ethnicity
: Ukrainian
Illustrator’s residence
: Marburg, Germany
Subjects
: Animal habitats, Diversity of nature, Noss, Zoology

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