Zaplana Ruiz, Ricard

Interest age: from c 9 years

Published on 7 March 2024 by Penguin Random House Children’s UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Unstoppable Us’ series.

Paperback | 208 pages
230 x 155 x 15 | 462g

*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.*We humans aren’t strong like lions, we don’t swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don’t have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?The answer to that is one of the strangest tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story . . .

Have you ever wondered how we got here? From hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon?It is because we are unstoppable. But what made us so? Well, we have the most amazing superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to being able to create money (yes, really!