Life on Earth is astonishing and admirable, and for its study of vast areas of things have been discovered to the point that volumes of books have been written about it so far. However, what remains in the mind for a long time of accurate and necessary information. Often times, books full of text fail to impress a child, so the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wonderful Animals is an answer to a child's need as it is a good reading material that delivers surprisingly accurate pictorial information in a wonderfully rational way. As the name suggests, it is a good pictorial encyclopedia.