From the top of the tallest mountain to the bottom of the deepest ocean Smarties Beautiful Beasties contains a great menagerie of the fastest, the noisiest, the smelliest, the most dangerous, the hairiest...and the most peculiar creatures in the animal kingdom. Catch a glimpse of killer frogs and exploding hedgehogs. Discover a cat that can swim faster than an Olympic athlete, and size up the biggest pair of feet you've ever seen. Did you know? The Venezuelan skunk frog is the smelliest creature in the world; 300 people really were eaten alive by piranha fish in 1981, when their boat capsized; A tiger can swim nine times faster than the Olympic record holder; There's even a seven-tonne baby that can swallow a swimming pool in one gulp, in this colourful, fact-filled stampede through our animal world.

 

This book is part of a book series called Smarties .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Little, Brown Book Group .

Mike Ashley is the author and editor of over sixty books including the bestselling Mammoths Comic Fantasy, Seriously Comic Fantasy and Fantasy, and the crime-fiction collections The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries, The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits and The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits. He lives in Chatham, Kent.