Smart Animals

Smart Animals features octopuses navigating mazes, rats outsmarting lab experiments, dolphins naming each other, orangutans solving riddles, elephants holding a grudge for decades, and many more. Get ready for the most marvelous and mind-blowing masterminds from our animal kingdom!

Michael Holland studied Ecology at Lancaster University and Oregon State University and is a keen photographer, wildlife gardener and all-round composting nerd! He is the author of the bestselling title, I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast and this is his first book about animals.

Slovakian Illustrator Daniela Olejníková is passionate about screenprinting and linocut and has illustrated more than 20 titles for junior readers. Strokes of stylus, and colors layered and overprinted are her most significant methods of illustrating, same as simple shapes combined with patterns and textures. She is living in Bratislava. After illustrating the bestseller In Great Numbers, this is her second book with Little Gestalten.