WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Design Awards, Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction book

WINNER: 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award

SHORTLISTED: 2025 Spark! School Book Awards - Non-Fiction category (US)

Join maverick inventor Steve Mushin as he tackles climate change with an avalanche of mind-bending, scientifically plausible inventions to rewild cities and save the planet. Jump into his brain as he designs habitat-printing robot birds and water-filtering sewer submarines, and calculates how far compost cannons can blast seed bombs (over a kilometer).

Through marvelously designed and hilarious engineering ideas, Mushin shares his vision for super-high-tech urban rewilding, covering the science of climate change, futuristic materials and foods, bio reactors, soil, forest ecosystems, mechanical flight, solar thermal power and how fast we could actually turn roads into jungles.

Developed over seven years, Ultrawild is an optimistic book about creative thinking, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and the potential for massive change. Filled with laugh-out-loud design ridiculousness, it aims to empower and excite a new generation of designers, scientists, engineers and ultra-wild thinkers.

The book is packed with ideas to bring climate change under control and inspires young conservationists to push their imaginations to the limit. It presents an intricate and inspiring compendium of ideas needed to repair the planet by rewilding every city on Earth.

With its visionary and outrageous roadmap for integrated thinking, this book proves that creative solutions are possible and necessary. It’s a perfect gift for curious kids and a visually impressive, large-format work of genius.

Pages: 80, Dimensions: 27.6x27.6cm