This is a very successful book for the school library or home tutor. Every animal that could be deemed 'bad' in some way (that's 'bad' in the bad way, not 'bad' in the good way) gets four pages – two where all the urban myths abound, such as how we eat spiders in our sleep, we're always getting bumped off in return by sharks, etc, and then two where the reality is conveyed, and we learn that these animals are actually, on the whole, good – and that's 'good' in the good way. The design of the page does look rather busy, with a moderately successful artwork peppered with copious arrows and captions and swirling bits of info, but generally the book conveys its information very well, and the distinctive approach to teaching us respect for nature is very welcome. Yes, it's highly anthropomorphised (we're told jellyfish have no eyes, then see a full face on our one in the picture), but the way the true trivia is in a firm box as opposed to all the pull-quotes elsewhere really points out quite nicely what we should be taking on board. You never know, appreciation for wasps and the way pigeons walk is asked for here, and it might just get it.