Description: With this book, young readers will learn all about animals -- and discover the fun of finding information in an encyclopedic dictionary. This dictionary of animals, their habits, and their habitats serves up thousands of interesting facts about more than 175 creatures. It is illustrated with both photographs and colorful, detailed artwork -- more than 200 pictures in all, an average of two per page. This store of information is opened up to kids in a number of ways -- through an A-Z presentation animals in each of 11 different, color-coded groupings (from mammals to birds to fish to worms), through an extensive index, through "Read more about ..." cross-referencing, and through boldfaced glossary terms. And, of course, many questions will be asked and answered in the same breath, as young readers come upon new between a information: how fast a cheetah can run, the difference between a cougar and a bobcat, how many eyes a spider has, whether grasshoppers or people have more muscles, how baby scorpions are born, which animal has five hearts but no lungs, and many more besides.

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