"Features a diverse selection of more than 400 of the world's animals drawn from all species and all climates, from apes to snakes, mammals to mollusks, and toads to tropical fish. Packed with information on the anatomy, habitat, lifecycle, and diet of each animal, and with special fact boxes and maps. Includes more than 1200 full color, detailed illustrations and over 400 color photographs of the animals in their natural habitat"--Page 4 of cover.
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Learn more about familiar animals, as well as discovering some fascinating new ones.
User-friendly and accessible, this is the perfect modern encyclopedia for animal enthusiasts of all ages.
Fotolia: CPJ Photography (cr); Impala (fcrb). Getty Images: Mint Images / Frans Lanting (ca). 198-199 Corbis: Theo Allofs (c). 200 Corbis: Eric and David Hosking (fcra); Minden Pictures / Foto Natura / Jasper Doest (c).
A visual guide to animals, a detailed natural history introduction and over 1000 beautiful artworks.
View the animal kingdom up close as never before in this breathtaking title, which has already sold over 1.5 million copies.
Blending adorable, simple illustrations with rich photography and lively text, My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals is a very important book for very important people, the perfect first animal reference book for young readers.
DK First Animal Encyclopedia is loaded with spectacular photographs showing animal habits and habitats.
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