Winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2021
An Information is Beautiful Awards winner 2022
One of the Financial Times’s Best Books of the Year 2020 (Children and Young Adult)
“Typography and design combine thrillingly to form something that is eye-opening in every sense”
“There is magic and wonder encapsulated in every page … different to any other science book I have ever seen before.”
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I’m also available in the US!
Hello. I am a book.
But I’m also a portal to the universe.
I have 112 pages, measuring 20cm high and wide. I weigh 450g. And I have the power to show you the wonders of the world.
I'm different to any other book around today. I am not a book of infographics. I'm an informative, interactive experience, in which the data can be touched, felt and understood, with every measurement represented on a 1:1 scale. How long is an anteater’s tongue? How tiny is the DNA in your cells? How fast is gold mined? How loud is the sun? And how many stars have been born and exploded in the time you’ve taken to read this sentence?
Using all the elements that make a book, well, a book in a completely original way, I blend playful design and data storytelling to introduce scientific concepts to a broad, all-ages readership.
How it all works
Every one of my measurements – from the size of my pages to the height of my type to the noise I make when slammed shut – embodies a fascinating fact about the universe.
Here are a few of the questions I answer inside my pages…
