SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARDS 2022
An international best-seller, translated into over 25 languages
Often human scientists try and solve a problem or invent a new tool and
they realise that animals have already invented it for them. In this
book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super
inventing powers to make amazing things for humans.
We have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable
materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our
own for millions of years. Sometimes when a human inventor gets stuck,
they come to the animal kingdom to see if we can help them out. In this
book you will meet the crème de la crème of animal innovators who have
created or are in the process of inventing things that people use every
day.
Meet the shark who invented a pair of swimming shorts so fast, they were
banned from the Olympic games. And meet the snail who has invented a
house that stays cool inside even in the desert.