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Great children‘s book about rare animals from around the world! Some of them they are not really sure how many are left really though.

Loved it! I appreciated the casual, funny tone & the fun illustrations. & the focus on different than usual animals. I highly recommend!

Pictured: the Sand Cat, "secretive feline of the desert night" who is very "psammophilic (sand-loving)."

I'm already in love with this book & I've only read the intro!

"There are thousands of different animals in the world--big and small, common and rare--but most books show you just a slender selection of those thousands. And it's the same slender selection over and over again. It's time for a book that's different--without the same ho-hum, run-of-the-mill creatures we're served day in, day out."

This book takes a fun, often snarky, look at some less well-known animals from around the world. It's a scattered selection, but there's a lot of information packed in for one book. My son is enjoying learning about the stinky animal you can smell from over a mile away and the wild ass that can run 45 mph! We're at 235 books! #1000booksbeforekindergarten