About this item
Get ready to discover the animals who don't play by the rules! Warning: contains rotters and plotters, hooligans, con artists, and assassins! The Ultimate Animal Criminals features all sorts of criminal creatures, including mischievous monkeys, looting lemurs, and tyrant toads. An innovative editorial approach is paired with humorous artwork and photographs to offer an intriguing and scientific look at the more extreme aspects of the animal world. Captivating text from Clive Gifford, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2014, and humorous artwork from Sarah Horne is complemented by photographs to give an intriguing and scientific look at the more extreme aspects of the animal world.
About the Author
Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 180 books for children and adults including This Is Not A Science Book (Ivy Press) , The Race To Space (QED) and Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing - winner of the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Clive's The Colours of History (QED) won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts in 2019. His other books range from the serious (Refugees, Living On The Veg, Robots, Guardians of the Planet) and sporty (with books on the Olympics, football and rugby) to the fictional and downright silly (Pants Attack, Kelly's Smelly Wellies, The Huge Rude Duke) . Clive has travelled through 70 countries, formed and run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee (he was top scorer at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg back in the nineties) . His books have been shortlisted for the TES Information Book of the Year and the British Book Awards as well as winning Smithsonian, Children's Choice, NAPPA, Sainsburys and PBS awards. Sir Ranulph Fiennes called Clive's Ten People: Explorers, "An inspiration to all adventurers," whilst The Guardian declared that his Kingfisher Book Of Football "was worth a season's training." Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk
