How can you resist a book with a title like that? I didn’t, and now I know a lot more things about some ridiculous (and dangerous) animals (& birds & insects). The illustrations are super cute (who taught a caterpillar could look that artsy!) and will help in teaching kids about some amazing animals without scaring them.

The information is provided in two ways- a small block of text and handwritten (font) pointers around the illustrations. The language is informal, simple, and funny (yeah, ridiculous too).

Here are a few animals I loved reading about (not sure I want to meet any of them in person, oh well).

• Sea sheep- these cuties are chloroplasts!
• Decorator crab- designer pieces indeed.
• Bee hummingbird- nectar vampires, lol.
• Okapi- donkey, zebra, giraffe?
• Wattle-cup caterpillar- a series of ouches!
• Tardigrade- ridiculously tiny extremophiles, rofl.
• Zombie snail- one toxic cycle that!
• Hairy anglerfish- built-in LED. ;)
• Marine iguana- salty sneezes. Oops!
• Peacock mantis shrimp- some combo this!
• Exploding ants- such sacrifice, poor things.
• Orchid mantis- cute cannibals (or is it mantisbals?)

To sum up, The World's Most Ridiculous Animals is a cute and highly informative book about how animals have adapted to the changing conditions on the earth and thus survived when others perished. A lesson for us, humans, right?

I received an ARC from NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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