If you need to know anything about otters then this is the book for you: it covers everything from how they swim to how they hunt and what they eat to their mating games and how they care for their young. Animal Lives: The Otter is written in a very plain and straightforward style which makes for easy understanding and interesting reading. You are not only given plenty of information about otters but there is also a section at the back of the book that tells you where you can seek out this fascinating species and how to watch them without disturbing them. The glossary of specialist words used in the main text of the book and the list of useful contacts if you wish to find out more information about Otters add further weight to the book. In addition to a tremendously informative text, the illustrations are wonderfully detailed and really help to lift the book from a factual and perhaps rather mundane non-fiction title to a visually intriguing book. Animal Lives: The Otter is a great book that will not only appeal to any budding wildlife expert, but could also be enjoyed as a storybook by anyone with a love of animals. (Ages 4 to 6) -- Miranda Warren

 

This book is part of a book series called Animal Lives .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Pan Macmillan .

Bert Kitchen is one of the top illustrators of children's books, whose work has been exhibited in many countries. His titles have won him international acclaim: Animal Numbers won the 1988 Bologna Graphics Prize for Children, and was runner-up in the Bologna Critici in Erba prize. This was judged in part by a panel of children, confirming that his books appeal directly to children as well as to adults. He has also illustrated Meredith Hooper's Tom's Rabbit, runner-up in the English 4-11 Awards for the Best Children's Picture Books of 1998. Sandy Ransford has worked both as a children's and adult book editor and for the last ten years has been a freelance editor, packager and writer of a great number of very successful joke and activity books.