Awesome 'Possum, Volume 4

“You’ll witness love of the natural world with every story, and your own love for it will grow with every page. You’ll learn stuff, too, and learning stuff is awesome.”
—Jim Ottaviani, author of

Thirty-nine creators explore the natural world, plants and animals from around, and inside, the globe. For example, you’ll explore:

• , or the corpse flower, the largest, stinkiest flower in the world, with Shing Yin Khor
• The komodo dragon and Stephen R. Bissette’s (, ) first experience seeing them, as drawn by Ross Wood Studlar.
• The ecology of Ä’ày Chù (Slim’s River) in Alaska with Rachel Ford.
  

Jon Chad, creator of (First Second, 2016), wrote the introduction, connecting entertainment and education through the Fantastic Four and cooling rubber. Tillie Walden, creator of  (First Second, 2017), provided the front cover inks, colored by Angela Boyle.

“I love , and even though I have been writing about this sort of stuff for much of my life, I learn new things on almost every page.”

—Richard Conniff, author of