Featuring 2,500 species and packed with stunning colour photographs, amazing animal facts, maps, and more, the new National Geographic Kids Animal Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive on the market today, amazing and entertaining readers, while providing them with authoritative information about the animal kingdom.

Thematic spreads take readers through animal homes and habitats, senses and communication, life cycle and babies, movement and migration, defences, camouflage, and adaptation, and endangered animals and conservation. Special features in each section include ANIMAL PROFILES spreads that focus in-depth on a particular animal and ANIMAL RECORDS spreads that highlight the fastest, tallest, smallest animals, etc. Exclusive FROM-THE-FIELD reports, that focus on National Geographic explorers and their stories about the animals they study, can only be found in this animal encyclopaedia.

This book is part of a book series called Encyclopaedia .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-10 years.

There are 304 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2012 by National Geographic Kids .

Catherine Hughes, M. Ed. , is the Executive Editor, Preschool Content, at National Geographic. She is the author of several books in the NG Little Kids First Big Book series.