beautiful, but unbalanced

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	• Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife David Burnie DK ADULT, 2005 - 624 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent, outsanding!!!!

The best comprehensive guide to all the animals of the world that I have ever seen!! Beautiful pictures and very complete info on all the members of the animal kingdom. This product is simply flawless and priceless for those parents who want to teach their children about the animals that share this planet with us. Highly recommended.

Best Animal book ever

A long tiume zoology nut,I have many books on animals but wanted a definative volume. I picked up Animal and what a treat. It is beautiful and comprehensive. Though its collection of bats is a bit weak, its overall breadth is remarkable. So worth the cost.

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A Wonderful Addition

My children and I love to flip through the pages and look at all the differant types and species of animals. And I know that as they get older, their interest in this book will not wain. They will continue to derive wonderful information from it. Great Book.

beautiful, but unbalanced

As I have come to expect from a major DK publication, we get a very handsomely illustrated book at a good price. This book immediately makes one think of its "predecessor", if you will: the "Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World". I thought this new DK book would be a kind of updated replacement, but it turns out, no way! As another reviewer noted, this DK book is way lopsided in that it seems to be "starring" the mammals, and the further you get from that form, the less coverage. The Larousse book and this one are about equal in size, but the coverage is about opposite: the Larousse book devotes 270 pages to invertebrates, which in this DK book get a measly 76 pages! The Larousse book has a bigger section on fish too, and then it gets into smaller sections with the rest of the chordata. Anyway. I'm glad I have both books, to get some balance. If you want to find a brief profile on a particular beast (especially mammalian), this DK book is better. The Larousse book has more discussion (with photos & illustrations), not so much individual coverage.

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5 Stars plus 1000 stars!

This is the most amazing animal book I have ever seen. It was a gift to my son when he was 3, and he read the ink off of the pages. He took it to his daycare, and it ended up staying there, after he left. I didn't have the heart to ask for it back, when so many children enjoyed this book. I ended up buying this one, and my son is now almost 7. It is fun to watch him look at the animals, and actually READ the blurbs about them. It is a wonder, every time he opens that book, he gets lost in it. I am considering buying another one, for his school library, I love it that much.

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