With over 400 entries organized alphabetically, this encyclopaedia places particular emphasis on animals which children are likely to encounter, whether in life or in books, from aardvark, through gerbil and spiders, to zebra. The book's features include conservation; the 12 main habitats and the typical animals that live in them; and behaviour, communication, defence, evolution, feeding, and other main strands in animal life.
- ISBN10 185697202X
- ISBN13 9781856972024
- Publish Date 30 June 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 November 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Kingfisher Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English