The Big, Bad Book of Beasts by Michael Largo
Largo has created a modern day bestiary. It is an encyclopedia of animals both real
and legend. It is full of fascinating,
fun facts about animals of all kinds.
I have no idea how Largo picked the animals that he put in
the book. It runs from ants and bears to
extinct animals like the dodo and the tyrannosaurus rex, there are myths and
legends like the phoenix and trolls and cryptids like the chupacabra and the Jersey
devil. There is a little bit of
everything. There are animals I am familiar
with and ones I have never heard of before.
I learned a lot of new things even about the animals I thought I knew
well. You get from a few paragraphs to a
few pages about each animal. There is
information like life span and habitat and more specific information like how
many times a woodpecker will bang his head against a tree in one day. He explores were myths about animals (even
real ones) started and what animal might have been misidentified to start
rumors of nonexistent animals. If you
are doing some kind of research I don’t know how much this would help you. But if you just like to learn about animals
it is a great book to visit off and on and read an entry or two.
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