Animal AllStars, Clare Balding
Animal AllStars, Clare Balding
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Animal All-Stars
Incredible Facts for Kids who Love Animals and Sport

Author: Clare Balding

Narrator: Clare Balding

Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wren & Rook

Published: 03/14/2024

Synopsis

Who would win in a slow sprint, the Australian Tiger Beetle or the American falcon?
Is the sperm whale built to be a great long-distance swimmer or is perseverance her winning attribute?
What would a tiger look like in a bikini?

Find out all of this and more in the Animal Games, a competition like no other, where the world's most fascinating animals go head to head to become champions in their field.

Full of fascinating and surprising facts, hilarious illustrations and motivational takeaways that show even the most understated animals have hidden skills, you can't always judge something by its appearance, and that there is great power in being the underdog.

You'll discover TRUE animal facts, skills, tricks and world-records - and imagine what would happen if animals from around the world could compete in the most entertaining sports day ever...

About Clare Balding

Winner of the BAFTA Special Award and RTS Presenter of the Year Award for her expert coverage of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Clare Balding is one of Britain's leading broadcasters. Since joining the BBC as a trainee sports reporter in 1994, she has covered a range of major live events for the BBC, Channel 4 and BT Sport. Clare has hosted her own interview show, presented factual documentaries and tramped the country for the walking programme Ramblings since 1999. She has twice been named RTS Sports Presenter of the Year, and won a host of other awards for broadcasting and writing.A bestselling author, Clare's first book, My Animals and Other Family, was published by Penguin in 2012. Based on her childhood growing up in an unusual household, it was published to critical acclaim and went on to win biography of the year at the National Book Awards. Her second book, Walking Home, was published in 2014.Clare has released four children's books based on the relationship between humans and animals. The latest one, The Racehorse Who Learned to Dance, was published in 2019.Clare lives in London with her wife, Alice, their disobedient dog, Archie, and a beautiful cat called Button, whom Archie tolerates with relatively good grace.

About The Boy Fitz Hammond

The Boy Fitz Hammond has worked with various clients including Oxfam, Shelter, BBC, Honda, Microsoft and the Barclays Premier League.His illustrations have also been used by many editorial, educational and publishing clients across a diverse range of titles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sophie on April 02, 2024

This book is about different animals that do different challenges to compete for medals, for example which animal is the strongest or fastest. The results of some of the challenges really surprised me! It was really funny and if made me laugh. Also the illustrations were really good.......more

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