As Large As Life
The Scale of Creatures Great and Small, Short and Tall
Authors: Jonny Marx
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Did you know that a sword-billed hummingbird has a beak longer than its body, that a giant anteater’s tongue can delve two feet into a termite mound in pursuit of food, or that a lion’s mane jellyfish can grow tentacles as long as three buses?
See how the most sublime animals on the planet size up and compare them all in one go using the enormous fold-out chart at the back of the book.
Meet the authors
Jonny Marx
Jonny Marx lives in London, where he works as a children’s book editor and author. From a compendium of mythical monsters and a chronology of prehistoric creatures, to books about crime capers, lost u…
Sandhya Prabhat
Sandhya Prabhat is an independent animator and illustrator based in the Bay Area, California, and is from Chennai, India. She holds an MFA Degree in Animation and Digital Arts from NYU Tisch School of…
