Friendly, engaging descriptions of “weird” animals and eye-catching illustrations introduce a number of animals by telling about their unique features and habits. This is a wonderful book for launching further investigations into the behavior of these animals or for simply enjoying the variety of animal life. I would have liked to see an author’s note explanning how the author gathered this information and an illustrator’s note explaining the how the illustrations were created.

This is a fabulous book, especially for children who love strange animals. As an adult, it's a fabulous look at animals we don't get a ton of videos online for. Whether it's checking out a proboscis monkey or are really into some strange underwater creatures this super fun book is great to give to a child or even an adult who likes their animals on the weird side.

An adorable read for children of a wide age range. The littles will live the amazing illustrations and the older kids will love being read to transgressing into reading it to themselves. A keeper for sure, can’t wait to buy a finished copy.

Get to know these animals in an entirely different light!

Are you an animal lover? Do you enjoy learning about different species and what sets them apart from others? Then you re going to love this book! The pictures are amazing, and the information given is enough to satisfy even the most curious child.
We loved reading this book!

This was a treasure trove of joyful illustration and rewarding information about weirdoes among the animal world. I'm quite well read about the natural world, and especially about oddball critters, but this book held some surprises for me. Some of these animals I had never heard of before; some I am quite familiar with, such as the narwhal, and the pangolin, but I'd never heard, for example, of the Pacific barreleye which is a startling creature to say the least. If someone had invented that for a sci-fi story you would never have believed it.

The book covers over twenty animals, including humans who are in some ways the weirdest of all. The illustrations were colorful and amusing, and the book very educational and eye-opening (barreleye-opening in my case!). I thought it was wonderful and a great way to fascinate a child with the wonders of our natural world, and how delicate and rare they are, and how much they need our love and protection. I commend it unreservedly.

This book is just beautifully illustrated and brilliantly written. It looks in quite a bit of detail at many weird and wonderful creatures. There’s a lot of information included more than I was expecting and I was very impressed.
I’d recommend this for any child aged 6-11 and will be using it in a educational setting.

Interesting collection of animals beautifully illustrated and well described for young readers. I chuckled that 'human' was included (yes they ARE weird) and it/they are used as a plug for the human ability to save the environment and its species.

I'd say this is good for kids interested in animals and science.

I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - words & pictures for this DRC.

I found this really interesting! It had a lot of cool information on some beings that might not ordinarily get the spotlight. I especially enjoyed learning about the Pangolin and Tenrec which were both animals I had no previous knowledge of.

That being said I think this is a bit wordy for kids.
I had trouble finishing it in one sitting since it was fairly time consuming for a picture book.
It would be better served reading one animal a day or using this as a reference book in a classroom.

Good addition to libraries and classroom book collections on animals! Kids are going to be amazed by the strange and unique animals in this book. Hoatzin, a bird which has claws when its young for climbing and can swim underwater?! A relatively new discovery, the Dumbo Octopus will delight them. So many unusual animals to read about in this book. I loved the illustrations of the creatures, it would have been nice to see photos, but anyone can find photos and more info online. Great read!

Who are you calling weird? Is a wonderful written and illustrated book about fun and unique animals such as the aye-aye which is a lemur that many thought was a rat or a dumbo octopus which has big round fins and lives near the bottom of the ocean. The book also has hammer-headed bats, a platypus, flat-headed agamas lizards, hairy frogs, helmeted hornbills, three-toed sloths, and many more. Each animal has a colorfully illustrated picture, explaination, how the animal is unique, and describes their environment. At the end of the book it also lists websites for further information on the animals and other animals you can research such as the National Geographic site and the World Wildlife Fund.

This delightful nonfiction book is factual, without being boring. The illustrations that accompany the text are perfect--whimsical and fun. Some of these creatures were completely new to me, and others I was familiar with. But each of them were interesting to read about. I especially like how the last "creature" featured in the book is "human". This book would make a nice edition to an elementary classroom.