41 realistic scenes (including four double-page spreads), meticulously researched and accurately rendered by artist Dianne Gaspas-Ettl, depict a variety of wild animals in their natural habitats.

Included are ready-to-colour illustrations of:

• A magnificent giraffe at a water hole
• The matriarch and herd of African elephants
• A cheetah with its young on an abandoned termite mound
• A yellow-winged bad amid the blossoms of the baobab tree
• A village weaverbirds' nests hanging from umbrella acacia
• And much more!Captions for each picture identify subjects by common and Latin names and briefly describe the environment. In the greatly admired Dover style.