Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth (Animal Science)

Started with "What's eating you", my daughter falls in love with the series and begged me to get the other books in the series. Of course, she uses her newly-gained knowledge to quiz me and she felt triumphant whenever I could not guess it right. A good book to broaden your kids' knowledge about animals.

I am a teacher and love to use this book as a read-aloud mentor text with my 4th grade writers. It is an excellent example of how to make expository writing engaging, beginning with the first line, "We humans are such a bunch of wimps!"

It is entertaining and educational. Illustrations were particularly amusing and let's see, it,um, it uh, how do you say it covered some very unusual facts. Who ever wrote it did a good job.

I bought this book for teaching 6th grade science, and I am finding it hysterically funny in addition to informative.

Funny book but interesting

was gift for grandson...required reading for school...didn't actually read myself however he did tell me he enjoyed this book

Even though I studied English in college, I'm kind of a science nerd. Science can be an awful lot of fun and I love learning new facts about the creatures that live on Earth. EXTREME ANIMALS is one of the better short animal fact books, oriented towards children, that I've read in several years. The book examines a wide variety of creatures on the planet that are capable of living and surviving under the harshest conditions. From the freezing cold temperatures of the Artic to the blasting inferno inside a volcano to the massive pressure living near the bottom of the ocean to the ferocious aridity of a desert to the zero atmosphere of space, there are animals and organisms from our planet that can survive all of those environments and more. The book is written in a very easy-to-understand manner, e.g. comparing they way frogs use sugar to keep from freezing to antifreeze, and is sure to be a joy for young enquiring minds. The text is accompanied with playful, almost animated illustrations from Neal Layton that make the book even easier to enjoy, as well as displaying some of the information visually. A highly recommended book for those interested in science and animals (especially children), as well as something to supplement a science lesson in a preschool class.

Anyway, I love this book. I mean it. If you have a kid in like 3-5 grade who loves animals, buy this one. It's filled with truly amazing facts about all kinds of critters, including polar bears, wood frogs, thermophiles and sperm whales. Compared to the other animals, humans are just wimps. And who would have known that the the title for toughest creature would go to one I've never hear of before. Of course, you'll have to read the book to find out what it is. I'll give you a clue: it starts with a "T" and is really small.The book is conversational in tone, with the facts thrown in. It makes it enjoyable to read, not at all dry. The illustrations are cartoony and funny. It's learning and fun rolled into one.

Very informative and humourously illustrated.Perfect.