As you all know we love animals here and we’ve been learning about some rather strange one in the latest book we’ve been sent to review for Sterling Books. Weird Animals is written by Mary Kay Carson and is aimed at children aged 6-11 years of age.
The 32 page hardback book is full of colour photographs with facts relating to a range of Weird Animals. The various weird features of each animal is explained in an easy way for children to understand.
The book features fourteen different Weird Animals that children may not have come across before, and explains what makes them different from more familiar creatures. We’ve certainly not come across a Pink Fairy Armadillo before and the size of its feet makes perfect sense for the job it needs to do.
There are some really rather beautiful animals featured including the Peacock Mantis Shrimp and the Mirror Spider, which really does look like someone’s stuck bits of glass to its body. Then there’s the Thorny Devil, which does look familiar. I’m not sure if we’ve seen them at a Zoo or Wildlife Park, but my nine-year old son agreed with me that he’d seen these in real life too. He loves the idea of having a false head!
The Sea Pig looks very curious and is definitely a new one for us. Animals of the deep fascinate my son so he was eager to learn more about this deep-sea animal.
Weird Animals is a great addition to our bookcase. I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate link below (I can earn from qualifying purchases) in case you fancy looking at these fascinating animals too.
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The Pink Fairy Armadillo, because it is so cute
A rhino many moons ago on my travels – one thing seeing them in zoos- another when you are stood next to them!
The Crab . The fact it walks sideways , has awesome claws and an armoured suit .
The New Zealand weta. The Maori translation of weta is ‘God of ugly things.’ Not only are they ugly but they jump, they hold on and they sometimes bite.
It has to be the red-lipped batfish now I have seen it on here! Wow, who knew animals looked so weird and beautiful in their own way bless them! x
The Puffer Fish, so cute yet so deadly, and they have the funniest looking teeth.
Seahorse they are just so fascinating
The Manx cat because it has no tail but doesn’t seem to miss it!
Frogs I get them in the garden and find them fascinating I’ve seen one turning itself inside out which was most strange
the manx cat seems strange with no tail
Don’t usually like spiders but the Peacock Spider is so pretty with its colourful fan tail x
Seahorses because they are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young.
I love axolotls, a family that I used to have to visit had one and I just found the little guy amazing!
I love reptiles, we have owned bearded dragons and they are very cool xx
Narwhals because of their horns and because of the one in the film Elf!
Pufferfish are really cool in the way they blow up to scare off a preditor
platypus, they’re so cute, they don’t look real
Seahorses fascinated me since I was a kid, and starfish – they look made up
The anglerfish, my first memory of weird animals
Cool
I love the puffer fish as it can completely change its size to ward off predators
Armadillo, unusual. Name sounds nice.
I love Kangaroos I know they are not weird but they have all always been my favourite xx
I think the Kimono Dragon is the most amazing of the weird animals I can think of – it’s one of those you wish you could have as a pet, but know you could never cage as that’s wrong!!
The seahorse, what a funny little thing
i like narwhals, they are like the unicorns of the sea
It has to be the Aye Aye. It’s a weird looking creature that was thought to be an evil spirit.
Indian Purple Frog, it is purple and has a snout!
The duck-billed platypus as it is rather odd looking, has fur and lays eggs
Hammer head sharks – their heads are such a strange shape that they look really cartoonish.
It’s gotta be the sea pig in this house! My son is pig obsessed because they’re pink and his favourite colour is pink!
Ok, so I’ve never heard of a sea pig until this morning and now I’m in a google blackhole trying to find out more about them! Bizarre, but kinda endearingly so?
I like seahorses because they are graceful and relaxing to watch
The aye-aye is a very peculiar creature. Sadly it is feared and persecuted because of it.
I love the duckbilled hornbull bird
Platypus, they are very cute but so odd looking
I don’t think I actually have one, that red lipped creature in the book looks so funny though
I love Quokkas, they are so cute x
I like seahorses they’re so delicate and unique.
I love the “aye aye”, its name is so odd, and that long bony finger with it’s huge eyes are amazing
Anteaters, so funny looking
Sea Pig sounds funny
When I was younger i was fascinated with blowfish
Puffer fish because they are so strange looking but it’s so interesting as well!
Giraffes are amazing creatures with their wonderful long necks and legs. On a much smaller scale water bears are tiny invincible animals
Platypus! I love them
puffer fish they just look funny!
The pink fairly armadillo! I’ve never heard of one before and it’s very cute!
The giant spider crab, scary and facinating at the same time!
Seahorses are pretty amazing, look so out of place in the sea.
Jellyfish, creepy and weird but beautiful
My favourite weird animal is the superb bird of paradise as the males have an elaborate courtship ritual, during which they spread out their black cape until only a bright blue breast plate and blue eyes are visible in an all-absorbing blackness.
I love bush babies!
the octopus always facinates me
I love porcupines – spiky on the outside but cute as a button on the inside
Zebra as they fascinated me as a child
Elephants – I don’t know if they count as weird, but they look positively prehistoric
I have always found dodos interesting
The thorny devil, how cute!
I love the Aya Aye. Their funny little fingers and googly eyes look so bizarre.
The sea pig looks really cool – would love to learn more about them!
Pink fairy armadillos…they’re fluffy, but reptiles all rolled into one…and quite cute!
Sphynx cat because its funny how a bit of furr makes cats seem so much more cuddly!
The red lipped bat fish looks amazing
A chameleon because of all the different colours they can become and blend.
love cats- i know they arent strange but mine are! xx
I like the narwahl as it’s the unicorn of the sea.
Sea cucumber I just love the name and how squishy it looks!
I love a Seahorse, pretty, unusual and very fascinating
The pink fairy armadillo… i’m actually over the moon to see a picture of one here as have only ever seen a sketch before.
The Hagfish has a particularly nasty way of dealing with its prey.
I like seahorses as they are so beautifully unique and fascinating
The starfish and it’s magic-like regenerative powers.
I’d have to go with the narwahl: It’s so weird that at first I didn’t realise it was actually a real animal!
Slugs, I can’t stand them but they fascinate me!
Hard to pick between the Pattypus and the Horseshoe crab!
Puffer fish are awesome. I see loads of them when I go to the Gulf Coast in Florida.
Seahorses, they are so amazing!
Aye aye! I think they are weirdly cute! X
seahorses are cool.
Pink Fairy Armadillo!!
The Bonobo, it’s nose cracks me up every time.
The Sea Pig is my favourite animal as it really stretches the imagination to believe it exists.
i like an octopus – and i think they are weird! we sometimes see them in rockpools near where we live and i love to watch them
The Manatee I love the fact they’re called sea cows and they were amazing to see in the wild in florida
I like the octopus as they are so alien looking but extremely intelligent
A flat fish lol I could hide from my annoying partner in the sand as they do
Thorny Devil because it’s so unusual
A rhino x
Got to be the seapig – never heard of it before- its’s not April1st is it?
Seahorses because they are so pretty and seem like they shouldn’t be able to swim
The octopus always fascinates me with all the tentacles and suckers. I’d hate to run into a large one in the sea!
I love tapirs! I’m not really sure why but I have loved them since I was a child.
the elephant – beautiful 🙂
I like sloths I just think they are cute
The Thorny Devil Lizard because they are actually really cute.
Seahorses because the males carry the babies – if only we were all seahorses!