Amazing Islands: 100+ Places that Will Boggle Your Mind (Our Amazing World, 1)

Intrepid explorers aged 7–11, get ready to embark on a breath-taking tour of over 100 islands found all around the world!

Discover over 100 of the planet’s most magical islands - their wildlife, history, diversity, people, cultures, treasures, and more - in this beautifully illustrated book. From islands that have been taken over by animals to disappearing islands, islands made of shells, artificial islands, and even islands that were once prison colonies, this book takes you on an exciting tour of some of the smallest land masses in the world.

The book also includes a world map, which plots all the islands found in the book, plus fold out flaps with engaging lists of island facts, including the top 10 biggest and 10 smallest inhabited islands in the world. Join author Sabrina Weiss and illustrator Kerry Hyndman in this fact-filled celebration of some of the most Amazing Islands on Earth!

Includes a glossary and index.

Other titles in the Our Amazing World series include:

• Amazing Animals
• Amazing Rivers
• Amazing Treasures

Sabrina Weiss is a journalist covering science, the environment and technology. An avid diver and photographer, she loves to plunge into the deep blue and photograph the animals we share our planet with. Sabrina is in a constant state of wanderlust and is always ready for the next adventure. She is the author of Ocean: Secrets of the Deep (What on Earth Books, 2019).

When she's not careering down slopes on her snowboard, Kerry Hyndman works from her South London studio creating rich, textured maps and illustrations. Her affinity for making blocky, abstract shapes take on three dimensional life with skillful layering has earned her a formidable client list including Bloomsbury, Faber and Faber and The Wall Street Journal.