Books in Peterson Field Guides series

Pack an extra canteen and lots of sunscreen for this hot adventure! In The Field Guide to Desert Animals, fictional naturalist Emerson Cole documents some of the unique desert animals he encountered on his travels through the Sahara Desert in 1929. Kids will learn how dromedary camels and death stalker scorpions survive in the blazing heat and freezing cold of the Sahara. Follow the sandfish as it dives below the surface of the sand and then emerges several yards away. Detailed illustrations, photographs, and handwritten diary excerpts make the reader feel as if they're part of the expedition. Kids can also create a 3-D desert scene with a full-color diorama and eight easy-to-assemble models of desert animals.

Providing a comprehensive field-guide to the 255 birds regularly seen in Britain and Ireland, this book devotes a full page to each bird, and a colour code allows readers to locate the different bird groups quickly and easily as they flick through the book. The detailed illustrations were painted by an artist who is himself a keen birdwatcher, and show each species in its major plumages and most typical field positions. Wherever possible, similar birds appear on facing pages and in similar postures, to facilitate comparison. The labels around the artwork are based on the notes that most birdwatchers make in their own field notebooks, and a concise text summmarizes the most important points about each bird's appearance and behaviour, and describes how to distinguish it from similar species. General birdwatching information is provided in the introduction. The author has written over 20 books on birds, as well as scripts for television series such as "Survival" and "The World About Us".