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| Snake | 
| Author: Chris Mattison
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
List Price: $12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 74343
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0756613655
Dewey Decimal Number: 597.96
EAN: 9780756613655
ASIN: 0756613655
Publication Date: January 23, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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| Customer Reviews:
 How Disappointing May 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the reviews and still managed to get confused and order this disappointing book. DK publishing usually offers outstandingly detailed and beautifully illustrated books, but this one is a real let-down. The photos of the snakes are very nice, but the text is too cutesy - varying font sizes and only the most general information. We bought the book to donate to our daughter's elementary school, but it will be of little use as a research tool and the information is too simplistic to educate our snake-loving kindergartener. I'm very disappointed and expected so much more from DK.
 Two Books Mixed Up by Amazon! May 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Snake" is a terrific book (I give it 5 stars) with fabulous photography. Every genuine reviewer has given it 5 stars. Unfortunately Amazon seems to have confused two different books---"Snake" and "The Snake Book" because reviewer Richard Bernhardt's mediocre review of the latter book has been incorrectly posted under the first book's page and affects the star average unfairly. Also, the description of the book from the School Library Journal on the "Snake" page obviously fits the other book written for children---not "Snake," which is aimed at adults. I suspect the same mess might be occurring on "The Snake Book" page. I hope Amazon fixes this!
 Are we talking about the same book? June 21, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Perhaps Amazon.com or the authors of previous reviews are confused about which book they're describing. The cover of the book shown in the picture is written by Mayr Ling and Mary Atkinson, not Chris Mattison. It is little more than 14 pictures (16 if you include the front and back covers) of various snakes in the same small white box. It offers nothing in the way of herpetocultural advise, or evolutionary or ecological insight. There are four to six sentences per page with cute little factoids. It is a fine book for introducing young children to a fraction of the beautiful variety of snakesThe first "editorial review" about this book from Amazon.com appears to be referring to another book called "Snake," and is misleading with respect to this book, entitled "The Snake Book." The second "editorial review" from School Library Journal seems to be a more accurate description of this book. "The Snake Book" is definitely not written for adults.
Wonderful beginning book June 25, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a stunningly visual book with fantastic general information on snakes. I have a number of books by Chris Mattison, and this is his best! Well worth the price.
Very educational July 24, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a college student and I work in a Science Center with several snakes from Texas; I'm always interested in learing more about snakes in the world. This book is amazing! It covers all topics related to snake's evolution, envirnoment, size and shape, scales, anatomy and movement, reproduction, classification of snakes, among other contents! With a gallery of beautiful and large pictures of these fenomenal creatures; the only problem is that it covers only 61 species that were chosen to be in the gallery to show readers the diversity of size, color, shape, and behavior, that is excellent! But I would've liked to see more variety of snakes. As a conclusion, this book is a MUST for people interested in learning more about snakes.
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