Understanding the animals of the world and their environments is a key to understanding our own world and how that world affects us. The six sophisticated slide-and-discover windows of this atlas offer a comprehensive view of the world's animals, continent by continent. Beautifully illustrated, and full of facts alongside stunning wildlife photographs, explore the amazing diversity of living creatures that inhabit different regions. Learn all sorts of fascinating things, like where animals live within the earth's climate zones, what a biome is and its importance, and various animals' survival tactics. Also, find out for each continent which animal is the largest, smallest, deadliest, loudest, longest-lived, most rare, which is unique to each area, and more. Slide and Discover: Animal Atlas takes you on a journey to tundra, rainforest, wetland, grassland, boreal forest and everywhere else to meet the wondrous and mysterious animals all over the world.

Author Biography

Barbara Taylor studied Environmental Sciences at Southampton University before becoming a science editor and writer at London's Natural History Museum. She has worked as an editor for a number of London publishers and is an award-winning author of more than 120 children's information books and encyclopedias on natural history, science and geography. Barbara has won the following awards: The American Association of Physics Science Writing Award; The Geographical Association Gold Award; The English Association's 4-11 award in the Key Stage 2 Non-Fiction category; The Wow! Award from the National Literacy Association. She lives in Kent, U.K.