Animal Fact File: Head-To-Tail Profiles of More Than 90 Mammals

by Tony Hare

Book Overview

This work covers 90 popular warm-blooded creatures from every corner of the globe. Each animal is featured on a two-page, full-colour illustrated spread that shows the entire mammal and highlights... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816039216
• ISBN13: 9780816039210
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

Stunning visuals!

Until tonight my library students and I would have voted "Animal Fact File: Head-to-Tail Profiles of More Than 90 Mammals" as the best book in our library. It is certainly among the most checked out books. So what happened to change my mind tonight? Carolina (my four-year-old niece) and I sat down to read it. First animal--Aardvark. As with each two-page spread in the book, the artwork of the aardvark fills the whole middle half of the two pages. Another illustration shows the aardvark's relative size to one human. Another shows a close-up of its nostrils. Across the bottom of the two pages is a row of skeleton and specific skeletal body parts. In the right hand column is a list of facts: classification, size, coloration, and features. Oddly, the Hyrax is displayed with the Aardvark with no explanation why it is there. However, the disappointment for me is major. Carolina asked, "What does it do?" For all the detail of the physical specimen, there is no mention what this animal (or any other animal in the book) eats, hows it behaves, what its home is like, or any other identifying characteristic. I checked the introductory comments. There was no explanation that this was a physical comments only book. Nevertheless, another good point is the inclusion of animals to stretch animal identification. I have always been amazed by Carolina's ability to identify a wide range of animals. This book challenged her and taught her new names: badger, capybara, dhole, mole, anteater, jackal, hedgehog, lemming, manatee, and meerkat. (She tired of the book by this time, meaning she made it through half of the 90 mammals.) To reiterate, this is a fantastic book full of fabulous artwork and physical detail and introduces the child to new mammals, but if you really want to know the mammal, you will have to look elsewhere. I do happily give four stars!

My son loves it

I have a 4-year-old son with autism who absolutely LOVES animals. We renewed this book from the library, and I wanted to buy it because he looks through it SO much. I do agree that sometimes it brings in another animal on the pages, and then doesn't explain the relationship, or other things about the animal that we might want to know. I also wish it would tell us what the animals eat, but that is a personal preference based on my son's desire to know that. But the drawings are nice and large, and there is quite a variation of different animals. He certainly knows more than most 4-year-olds when it comes to animals. And now we know more about animals than most adults do, too.

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