We Are All Animals : Discover What You Have in Common With a Cat, a Bat, a Jellyfish and 150 Other Animals!

Find out how similar you are to your favorite animal and how.

We Are All Animals offers children an awe-inspiring new way to understand the animal kingdom.

This unique book reveals astonishing similarities in the anatomy – and many more characteristics – of humans and other animals, celebrating our entire furry, scaly, slimy, slippery, extended family.

Did you know that most animal bodies, including ours, are shaped like tubes? Or that humans share 75% of their genes with chickens? That rats are ticklish, and dolphins give each other names? Children will be delighted to discover how similar they are to bats, bees, dogs, frogs, jellyfish, giraffes, and many more. By encouraging readers to make connections between distant corners of the animal kingdom, this book celebrates the extraordinary ways in which all of Earth’s creatures are connected.

Created in partnership with the Humanimal Trust, a charity advocating collaboration between physicians and veterinarians, this book is underpinned by cutting-edge medical science. The charity’s founder – Professor Noel Fitzpatrick – is an internationally renowned veterinarian, who also stars in his own TV series, The Supervet (a nickname he has earned through the groundbreaking veterinary procedures he performs). He has written a foreword to the book, and his extensive medical expertise runs throughout every page.

Includes a glossary and index.

Selected for the Reading Rockets Gift Guide 2025

Christopher Lloyd was Technology Editor with The Sunday Times in London before becoming a bestselling author. His books for children include the What on Earth! series of Wallbooks, and the bestselling Absolutely Everything! He was also the editor of the Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopedia. He is in great demand as a lecturer and public speaker. Christopher Lloyd lives in Tonbridge, UK.

Ben Hoare is an award-winning wildlife journalist and nature nerd. He writes inspiring natural-history books for kids–the kind of books he loved as a kid. Several have been international bestsellers, no doubt because his two daughters read and test everything first. Booklist reviewed Ben’s book Wonders of Nature, and said "This book is a treat... this is a wonderful choice."

Mark Ruffle is an illustrator and graphic designer living in the UK. Since he was young, Mark has drawn imaginary worlds, fantastic animals, and marvelous humans. He is now lucky enough to draw for a living and creates fun, colorful, engaging illustrations for a wide range of ages and uses. When he’s not doodling, he can be found walking his two dogs and admiring the wildlife and rolling hills where he lives.

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick is an internationally renowned veterinarian, who also stars in his own TV series, The Supervet. (He earned this nickname through the groundbreaking veterinary procedures he performs). Professor Fitzpatrick is a huge advocate of “ONE Medicine,” the cross-pollination of expertise and ideas between veterinary and human medicine. ONE Medicine is at the heart of Noel’s mission, and the cornerstone of Humanimal Trust, which is the charity he has founded to promote this cause.