What would happen if all 8 billion of us got ‘smooshed’ into one big, giant human? Let’s build a smooshing machine and find out… 

The Biggest Footprint provides an incredibly fun, interactive and visual way of starting a conversation with children, about how our actions affect the planet, by putting a variety of animals & objects into the smooshing machine - from burgers to rhinos 

This is a clever & creative story of our footprint, as a collective, as a species - covering a range of important issues such as animal agriculture, mineral mining, deforestation, palm oil  plantations, the illegal wildlife trade, fast fashion and plastic pollution, whilst highlighting the detrimental consequences all of these have on the planet we call home.

Although it covers a lot of serious topics, it is such a fun, lighthearted book which I think will play an important role in inspiring little ones, instilling an early connection to nature & a will to protect it. 

One of my favourite aspects of this book was how the animals were represented. Each animal mentioned (& beautifully illustrated) were ‘smooshed’ into mega animals, with their sizes representing how many of that species are still left in the wild today - with some of the biggest ‘mega animals’ being cows, chickens & pigs. 

The Biggest Footprint is an absolutely genius book, with an overall message of hope, I can see why it won the @wainwrightprize