Review: Very Entertaining & Educational Animal Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
Just purchased this book for my grandchildren and wanted to check it out first. I really just wanted to make sure that it was okay for them to have, but before I knew it, I had read every description and looked and all the pictures in the entire book. It is just that fascinating! The book has some really scary critters like the Tongue Eating Louse, a parasite that actually eats and eventually replaces its host's tongue and the Narwhale, which has a horn on its head that can get to be 9' long. 50 Weird Animals also features some deadly specimens like the Komodo Dragon, which can reach 10 ft. long and weigh up to 330 lbs., and the Pacu Fish, which the natives call the "ball cutter". The Pacu has been known to bite off and eat human appendages. Ouch!! Then there are the really cute creatures like the Angora rabbit, and my favorite, the Venezuelan Poodle moth, which looks like a tiny Poodle dog with wings and antennae.The only thing I could find wrong with the book was the photo didn't show the teeth of the Atlantic Wolfish also called the devil fish. The book says this fish has so many teeth that it can't close its mouth yet the picture does not show the teeth.If you are looking for a delightful, yet educational book to share with your children and grandchildren, this book fills the bill in every way.