As a first introduction to information books, the topics chosen in this series are intended to appeal to young children. Illustrated with realistic artwork each book deals with the theme "big", answering questions such as which is the biggest, the longest, the widest or the heaviest of its kind and how big the animal or object is compared with humans. This book on big animals describes many large animals including elephants, gorillas, giraffes, crocodiles, anacondas, polar bears, hippos, kangaroos and tigers. At the end of the book there is a pull-out frieze which features a panorama of all sorts of animals that can be found in the rainforests through to the grasslands.

 

This is volume 2 in First Discovery .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Mary and John Gribbin are well-known popular science authors who write for both adults and children. Children's titles include Time and Space (DK), What's the Big Idea? Time and the Universe (Hodder) Smelly Science (OUP) and the very recent The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Hodder). Peter Bull graduated from art college in 1979 and has worked as a freelance illustrator for over 25 years. He creates both traditional and digital art for publishers worldwide, and also runs the Peter Bull Art Studio, based in Kent, UK, which he founded in 1975.