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  • Published: 16 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241733363
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $30.00

What If... Pigs Could Fly?

And Other Amazing Animal Questions



Answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about animals from science author Emma Young

What if snakes were fluffy? Or skunks sprayed perfume? Or there were as many lions as ants? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young!

Prepare to learn all about animals from sharks to spiders and bats to bears. However, this isn't another dry textbook. You'll be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make you think about the animal kingdom in a whole new way. Author Emma Young explains the answers with humour and plenty of science facts that you'll be racing to share with your friends and family. The pages are filled with attention-grabbing photography and quirky illustration, which makes this animal book unlike any you've read before.

Even reluctant readers will find this book irresistible to dip into to find out the answers to the wacky, bizarre, and surprising questions, making this a perfect gift for any child.

  • Published: 16 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241733363
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Emma Young

After five years in bookselling, Emma retrained as a journalist and has been reporting since 2011 – first for community papers, then as a statewide digital journalist for WAtoday. Her work also regularly appears in sister publications The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. The Last Bookshop was shortlisted for the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award in 2019.

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