This is a book written by a kid for kids. Duncan Levy chose 20 land animals and 11 sea animals to research and share his opinion. It contains facts that are fun to learn delivered through type of wit you would expect from a bright 8-year old.
Animals on land Duncan discusses include: albatross, baboon, bobcat, cheetah, eagle, flamingo, gorilla, hyena, leopard, lion, moose, parrot, penguin, porcupine, red fox, seal tiger, walrus, wolf, and the polar bear. Animals in the sea include: boxfix, dolphins, eel, schools of fish, jellyfish, hammerhead, humback whales, killer whales, rays, salmon, sharks, and stonefish.

(Scientific American Special Edition Volume 14, Number 4)

In this special edition from Scientific American, we invite you to forget about everyday life to spend some time with the stars. In the pages that follow, you’ll find the latest gossip on the glitterati, written by the astronomer shutterbugs themselves. Although the stars have revealed more than ever, they’ve been careful not to tell all, lest we grow bored with their antics. As authors Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson so aptly put it in “Magnetars”: “What other phenomena, so rare and fleeting that we have not recognized them, lurk out there?” We can hardly wait to find out.

David Duncan is a Canadian fantasy author. He was born in 1933 in Scotland, and educated there at the High School of Dundee and at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955 he moved to Canada where he lived in Calgary, Alberta, and is currently situated on Vancouver Island in Victoria. He has been married since 1959 to his wife, Janet, and currently has one son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.
He started writing fantasy novels in 1984 and made his first sale ("A Rose Red City") in 1986, at which point he switched to full-time writing, after 31 years as a geologist in the petroleum industry. Although Duncan usually uses his own name, he has written as Ken Hood and also used a female pseudonym Sarah B. Franklin.