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How much can a blue whale eat in one day? Which animal has the largest eye on the planet? What is the smallest mammal?

How much can a blue whale eat in one day? Which animal has the largest eye on the planet? What is the smallest mammal?

A book teeming with questions like these (and the answers, of course) has scooped a prestigious prize for educational writers.

The judges of the 2014 Educational Writers’ Award described The World in Infographics: Animal Kingdom as “an outstanding book”. 

Illustrated with colourful icons, pictograms and graphics, it details the biggest, smallest, deadliest and rarest animals in the world.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt presented the award to co-authors Jon Richards and Ed Simkins at a ceremony at the House of Commons last month. 

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