Publisher's Synopsis
A comparison of large and small animals. The author takes various large animals (hippos, whales, giraffes, elephants and ostriches) and compares them to smaller animals (humming-birds, bat-eared foxes, elephant shrews, harvest mice and dik-diks).;The author gives a little information about each animal and this is supported by full colour artwork, a glossary and suggested further reading.;This book is part of a series in which simple comparisons of two ideas are used to capture the personality of different animals.