We Are All Animals

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Age Range
8+
Release Date
April 08, 2025
ISBN
978-1804661468
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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

Editor review

1 review
Different bodies many similarities
(Updated: July 15, 2026)
Overall rating
 
4.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
4.0
Learning Value
 
4.0
We Are All Animals is a nonfiction Middle-Grade book describing how animals and humans have more in common than you might suspect. The author is also a veterinarian and advocates that doctors for humans and animals should conduct research together, as we are similar in many ways. The book provides information on humans and related animals that share attributes such as DNA, vertebrate anatomy, mammalian traits, sensory systems, and mobility.
The language is age-appropriate and defines new words in an understandable way. The illustrations and occasional photographs help demonstrate the message. This book uniquely shares basic biology and anatomy by comparing humans and animals. Through this approach, not only does it teach scientific facts, but it also encourages empathy for our animal compatriots that deserve their space in the habitats that humans too often endanger. Fans of The Ultimate Book of the Human Body (Anne-Sophie Baumann) should check out this book as well.
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