Peter Schouten's beautifully detailed paintings and Tim Flannery's thought-provoking text bring to life these astonishing animals that represent evolution at its most remarkable and nature at its most beautiful and bizarre. There are no other books like Astonishing Animals! No matter how weird these animals look, each one really exists and can be found somewhere on the planet today. With just one exception… one of the animals in this book does not exist. But we're not telling which. You'll have to guess!

‘Flannery’s words…tell us much. Each piece of text is an informative and thought-provoking natural history story…Astonishing Animals [is] a large, glossy, luxuriously produced work: 97 creatures are wonderfully and lovingly illustrated by Schouten, often with extraordinary double-page illustrations…How, one wonders, can a lavish work like this be sold for $50?’ — Age

‘The illustrations are stunning. Schouten is an artist with an uncanny sense of capturing animals on the page, His paintings seem to shimmer with energy.’ — Canberra Times

‘Peter Schouten’s illustrations are superb, bringing the creatures to life.’ — Sun Herald