Whales and Dolphins

100 Facts You Should Know

by Steve Parker, Camilla de la Bédoyère, Rupert Matthews

From a review by Horn Book: "Published in spring of 1994. The text of the fact-filled introduction to whales and dolphins is lavishly illustrated with full-color drawings and photographs on every page. Text boxes, diagrams, and charts make clear comparisons of relative sizes, gestation periods, swimming speeds, diving depths, and more. Pages with flaps add information and extend the visual impact of the illustrations."

Genres: Nonfiction, Animals

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.

Reviews

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I prefer photography but this is nicely illustrated.