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|author=Yuval Zommer
|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased to know, however, that this book is very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary school.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Quentin Blake
|summary=At night a serious, well-behaved and (let's be honest) rather ''superior'' young black cat goes out hunting. Well, if we're being ''totally'' honest, there's a little bit of poaching in there too. By day she is Miss Catherine St Quintin, although her owner calls her Kitty. Other cats call her ''Q'', or ''Squintums'', but they are very common cats and Kitty's owner would have been scandalised had she known that there was an acquaintance. The reaction would have been even stronger had she known that Miss Kitty went out in a gentleman's Norfolk jacket and fur-lined boots. With a gun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247594</amazonuk>
}}
