This book is part of a book series called Little Library .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1994 by Pan Macmillan .

Michael Chinery studied botany, zoology, geology and anthropology at Cambridge University, England. He has worked as an editor on a science magazine for young people, and on a British television wildlife magazine. As a freelance editor and writer her has contribute numerous articles to natural history magazines.