cover image Amazing Animal Facts

Amazing Animal Facts

Jacqui Bailey. DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), $12.99 (64pp) ISBN 978-0-7894-9870-0

From the puffed-up porcupine fish on the cover to the enormous elephant endpapers, the paper-over-board Amazing Animal Facts: A Visual Guide to the World's Most Incredible Creatures by Jacqui Bailey brims with eye-catching animal photos. Using a q&a format, the volume, divided into sections on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, insects and fish, answers a wide array of questions, such as ""Which mammal has the most offspring?"" (mice and rats) and ""Why do hummingbirds hum?"" (the humming sound is generated by the vibrations of the wings flapping).