The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary. The animal on the cover of Word 97 Annoyances is an opossum. There are 76 species of opossum, living throughout South America and much of North America.
Opossums are marsupials, but unlike all other marsupials in several ways.
First, they are the only marsupials who live outside of Australia and the surrounding islands. Some species of opossum are even pouchless. In these species, the mother carries the young between her legs or on her back until they fully develop. Like other marsupials, opos sums are not fully developed when they are born. Ecologically, the biggest difference between opossums and Australian marsupials is that, while koala, kangaroo, and wallabee populations are decreasing, opossums are growing in number and extending their range.