Animals: Visual Encyclopedia

by Tom Jackson

From domestic cats to shire horses to dromedaries, from farmyard Jersey cattle to pandas to stick insects, Animals Visual Encyclopedia is an exploration of the wonders of nature, featuring more than 1000 of the world’s mammals, birds, fish, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians.

Each featured animal is illustrated with an excellent full-color artwork, showing in great detail its characteristics and colouring, and completed with an informative caption and a box of key facts including height, weight, diet and lifespan.

With more than 1000 outstanding color artworks, Animals Visual Encyclopedia is an authoritatively researched book that celebrates the natural world and all its inhabitants.

Genres: Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

"I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism). I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.

But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.

I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/

Reviews

[Johnnysbookreviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had some great pictures and information on animals. I did skim this book as there was a vast amount of information, but it was a good book. I went and read info on cheetahs, whales, eagles, and snakes.

[Carolina Nazario · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, but it was a lot of information to take in.

[Maizy Rose Rose Greenberg-Connor]

I really love this book. It is great to learn about all different types of animals.