CHRONICLE BOOKS
Colorful World of Reptiles
$19.99 USD
Description
A beautifully illustrated introduction to reptiles with colorful watercolor art and descriptions full of fun facts.
From the creator of the bestselling The Colorful World of Dinosaurs, this follow-up volume introduces fifty amazing reptiles with striking watercolor art and fun facts on each. Beloved author-illustrator Matt Sewell delves into the fascinating, mysterious, and sometimes downright bizarre lives of reptiles, including spectacular snakes, lizards, crocodiles, bearded dragons, turtles, and tortoises.
Did you know . . .
* The oldest known reptilian fossil is 315 million years old!
* That dinosaurs were also reptiles—though not, as some people think, giant lizards.
* The green basilisk can walk on water.
* The Galápagos tortoise can comfortably live for more than one hundred years.
* The saltwater crocodile is the world’s biggest living reptile (with an average one weighing around one thousand pounds!).
The Colorful World of Reptiles explores all these creatures and more—bright, horned, c
