A gorgeously illustrated, oversize picture book that shows young readers the sizes of their favorite animals.

Could you picture the size of a tiger's face, or an elephant's tail, or an ostrich's egg? Author Rita Mabel Schiavo and illustrator Isabella Grott's Life-Size Animals shows the actual size of your favorite animals' tongues, teeth, claws, eggs, tails, and more. It encourages readers to compare the sizes of the different animals to themselves--seeing how long their tongues are compared to a giraffe's or how big their teeth are compared to a great white shark's--and it helps to put in context just how big or small these incredible creatures are.

Packed with facts and breathtaking illustrations, this is the kind of book that curious readers can pore over for hours and return to again and again.

"An eye-filling gallery of creature features." --Kirkus Reviews

"This lovely title provides a range of interesting animal facts, with rich digital illustrations that evoke the colors and style of botanical prints." --School Library Journal


Author: Rita Mabel Schiavo
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 15.20h x 11.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781419744600
Audience: 06 - 09


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2020
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2020
School Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 112

About the Author
Rita Mabel Schiavo is the author of a number of children's books and has a degree in biological sciences from the University of Milan. She lives in Italy.
Isabella Grott is an illustrator who studied at the Art Institute of Trento, the Academy of Fine Arts for Pictorial Decoration, and the Nemo Academy of Digital Arts. She lives in Florence and works as a freelance illustrator and a teacher at Nemo Academy.