The Expanded Earth by Mikey Please
Everyone, everywhere on earth, is reduced in a flash to the height of a pint glass. What is responsbile for the sudden change and how will we cope with our new shrunken perspective on the world? The Expanded Earth is book one in a beautifully illustrated trilogy from the spellbinding mind of BAFTA award-winning storyteller Mikey Please
The Expanded Earth genuinely changed the way I look at the world around meI loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it. Mikey Please is a singular breed of genius and this book proves it yet again -- Emma Hooper, author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James
Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness -- Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of Everything Everywhere All At Once
It's one thing to portray just a single person or a handful of individuals getting reduced in size. In Mikey Please's The Expanded Earth, by contrast, that very fate is visited forcibly upon the entire global population, and of those who undergo the transformation - a repulsive, traumatic experience - only a small fraction emerge alive. An excellent, inventive novel from an author whose career in stop-motion animation, including work for Aardman, appears to have given him a solid grounding in seeing things from a small-scale perspective * Financial Times *
Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness -- Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of Everything Everywhere All At Once
It's one thing to portray just a single person or a handful of individuals getting reduced in size. In Mikey Please's The Expanded Earth, by contrast, that very fate is visited forcibly upon the entire global population, and of those who undergo the transformation - a repulsive, traumatic experience - only a small fraction emerge alive. An excellent, inventive novel from an author whose career in stop-motion animation, including work for Aardman, appears to have given him a solid grounding in seeing things from a small-scale perspective * Financial Times *
Mikey Please is a Bristol based BAFTA-winning and OSCAR-nominated writer, director, animator and illustrator. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art (MA Animation) his music videos and short films have garnered over 60 international awards. In 2023 he was appointed as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins), his critically acclaimed debut picture book, has been published in a dozen languages and was the winner of the 2025 Waterstones Children's Book Prize. A career in making and animating miniature puppets makes him particularly well placed to write a book about tiny people. The Expanded Earth is his first novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781472158345 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472158342 |
| Title | The Expanded Earth |
| Author | Mikey Please |
| Series | The Expanded Earth Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2025-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |