Richard L Orr

Little cats aren't always little. The puma, or mountain lion, can be nine feet long from head to tail. A snow leopard can jump farther than some of its big cat relatives. So what makes a little cat a little cat? This book tells all. Zoobooks, the 59-book animal series - the "everything you wanted to...

Like kittens, lion cubs are born with an instinct to hunt. They'll pounce on beetles, butterflies, or anything else that moves. Explore the way these cats grow from cute and cuddly to fierce and ferocious. Zoobooks, the 59-book animal series - the "everything you wanted to know but didn't know who t...

Kids like knowing things that adults don't always know. Zebras will equip them to be young field scientists, able to identify one species from another and to share little known facts-such as the fact that foals have manes that run all the way from their heads to their tails! Zoobooks, the 59-book an...

Children won't be able to put down Nature Unfolds, an exciting new series that uses spectacular fold-out illustrations to involve children in exploring habitats. Each book divides a particular habitat into its natural layers. The first spread features an overview of the entire habitat, which then op...

This illustrated guide to sharks includes profiles on skates, sharks and rays; primitive sharks; dogfish sharks; saw sharks; angel sharks; bullhead sharks; carpet sharks; whale sharks and basking sharks; mackerel sharks; thresher sharks; ground sharks; tiger, leopard and requiem sharks.

Applying meticulously detailed cross-section illustrations to such objects as a bee nest and a tree, an informative exploration of the natural world explains how animals make their homes and why conservation is important.

Richard Orr's Nature Cross-Sections