"This guide offers exercises and tips for rendering a wide variety of animals naturalistically in colored pencil. It is loaded with simple exercises that walk the reader through drawing all sorts of wild and domestic animals worldwide, pointing out the unique details of each along the way. The ideal audience for this book is older children and tweens, for whom its contents offer an educational aspect€”each animal's Latin species and family name is supplied as well as information about its size. ­VERDICT: This guide is best for younger readers, but their parents may be charmed by it as well." - Library Journal