Guinness World Records: Wild Things ed. by Craig Glenday
Guinness World Records, 2018. ISBN 9781912286485
(Age: 8+) Recommended. Subjects: Animals, Records, Zoology, Mammals,
Reptiles, Insects. Wild Things is jam-packed with an array
of amazing animal facts, records, achievements, oddities and
dangerous creatures. Split into 9 chapters, the book includes
information about Odd Bods, The Cute Factor, Creepy Crawlies and
Zootopia. Catchy titles, fun facts and figures, close-up photos,
bold visually appealing double page spreads make this a fun book to
share with animal lovers from eight to eighty!
Beginning with Booty and the Beast, it is filled with fun facts and
photos. Discover the female mandrill who displays her
rainbow-coloured butt as a sign of status, the trapdoor spider's
manhole butt and the manatees that use their digestive gas as a
flotation device! Compare mammal statistics, while the blue whale
weighs in around 190 tonnes, the tiny bumblebee bat from Burma and
Myanmar weighs up to two grams. In Little and Large a life-size
Indian rusty-potted cat leaps out, growling with pointed teeth. A
new wild cat species, the southern Brazilian oncilla, was only
recognised in 2013.
Australasia is On the Map; test your knowledge with thirty-three
unusual animals to identify and fun facts to discover. Did you know
the New Zealand tuatara is the fastest-evolving animal in the world?
Conservationists, including Dr Jane Goodall, Bindi and Rob Irwin and
Nisha Owen, provide interesting insights into their passions, work
and environmental messages.
Trading cards filled with animal facts, charts for animal height and
weight and short quiz questions across the bottom of some pages
capture interest and make for interesting conversations. An
augmented reality app in Creepy Crawlies adds an animated insect
screen to a phone. Guinness World Records: Wild Things is an
excellent resource for STEM classes, a fabulous addition to a
classroom or school library and for a scientifically minded reader
from eight to eighty.
Rhyllis Bignell