Customer Reviews

First Animal Encyclopedia (Dk First Reference Series)

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I bought this encyclopedia for my son's 7th birthday. It was his favorite gift, hands down. He still takes it with him everywhere. The book is full of pictures and lots of neat facts that are enough to challenge a 7 year old, but concise enough that he can read them simply. The book is split up into different categories of animals: Mammals, Creepy Crawlies, Birds, Reptiles, etc. Then each category has pages for different types of that creature. For example, mammals has ocean mammals, horses, marsupials, flying mammals, etc. The pictures are wonderful, and as I said, the amount of text is just right. I am so glad I bought this. My son is happy to sit for hours on end looking at this book. I highly recommend it for any animal loving child.

This encyclopedia is a good introduction into the animal kingdom. It does read well and the illustrations and imagery are well done. The categories make looking up animal groups a breeze. There is enough detail and close ups on the smaller animals, which really helps with understanding the animals.
Even the rediculous representation of the T-Rex found in the Big Dinosaur Book by DK makes a cameo, which we found amusing.

Overall a worthy purchase, promising long use.

My 3 year old twins love this book! And I know they will enjoy it for many years to come!

Highly recommend this book!

I am trying to figure out an animal encyclopedia to buy for my 5-year old son. I decided to get a few from library before deciding. I got this one and the National Geographic one. My son likes this BK one much better. Today is a snow day and I decided to read a few pages together with him and we turned to the blue whale page. It is stated that the blue whale "is so big that the next-largest creature on Earth, the bull elephant, could sit on its tongue". My son happens to have a "Toothed Whale" book checked out and we'd just learned a sperm whale can be as much as 50 metric tons and I didn't think elephants were that big. Indeed, largest bull elephant is 12 metric tons, and sperm whale is not even the second largest animal on earth. That honor goes to fin whale, estimated to weigh as much as 70 metric tons. The blue whale page was the first page I seriously read, so chances are such errors are elsewhere in the book also. Encyclopedia is supposed to be thorough and authoritative, not sure I'd want to buy this.

I bought this book for my 6 and 9 year old boys. They love it. It's filled with awesome pictures, interesting facts and information, and it is well written and easy to understand. We usually read a section or two each night. It's become my 6 year old's favorite book to read.

My 6 yr old grandson loved this animal book. It has lots of pictures and he'll spend many hours looking at and learning about all different kinds of animals.

I have 2 boys ages 6 and 4 and they absolutely love this book. They love animals and this book has nice big photographs for them to look at. The reading is a little advanced for them but I enjoy sitting down with them as well. They love it so much the book is starting to fall apart (they are a little rough at these ages!). If your child is fascinated by animals, I highly recommend this book.

I bought this for my oldest a year or two ago for Christmas and it was and still is a huge hit.
In fact this is one of those books he insists on taking with him on longer drives or trips.
He loves animals, dinos, etc. So this book was perfect for him, gave him pictures, basic information and other little bits and pieces about each animal. He loves to look up animals he sees and finds outside and learn more about them.
If your child loves to learn more than just a name and recognize a picture I think this will be a great first start.

A friend's 2 1/2 year old son loves animals. Since he prefers real animals to cartoon ones, I decided to go with this book. I gave it to him almost a month ago and his parents say it's still his favorite thing in the world. He takes it everywhere an asks everyone he knows to tell him about the animals. I wouldn't hesitate getting this for a child of any age.

I love this book, its great. Im buying one for every toddler on my list. They maybe a little young for to read the info, but the pictures are beautiful and I know they will grow into the book and love it even more when they can read the facts! A++++