Paws, Claws and Jaws: The World's Wildest Animal Tails ebook

by Terry Deary

 

Hold your horses, the cat is out the bag! Discover all the amazing and awful facts about barmy beasts and cagey creatures across time with history's most horrible Animals edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to animals across time. From gory stories of sacrifices in the stone age, murderous games in arenas in Roman times, a clever baboon who was given the job of a railway signal man in the Victorian era all the way up to the inventors of sonar inspired by bats, it's all in Horrible

fully illustrated throughout and packed with hair-raising stories – with all the horribly hilarious bits included with a fresh take on the classic Horrible Histories style, perfect for fans old and new the perfect series for anyone looking for a fun and informative read Horrible Histories has been entertaining children and families for generations with books, TV, stage show, magazines, games and 2019's brilliantly funny Horrible the Movie - Rotten Romans. Get your history right here and collect the whole horrible lot. Read all about it!

Genres: Nonfiction

146 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2024

About the author

A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into other languages and imitated.

A cartoon series has been made of the series of books and was shown on CiTV for a period in 2002.

The first series of a live-action comedy sketch show of the same name was shown on CBBC in 2009 and a second series is due.

Terry is also known widely throughout children and adult reading groups alike for his True Stories series (see below for series list).

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Education from the University of Sunderland in 2000. His numerous accolades also include the Blue Peter "Best Nonfiction Author of the Century" Award in the U.K.

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Reviews

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 stars

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fab book for animal loving children. It contains lots of fun stories and facts about animals throughout history. It's told in a Horrible Histories perfect way of teaching through humour. It has fun illustrations to increase children's enjoyment. It's quite short, my daughter easily read it in one sitting.