
“Animals Nobody Loves” by Seymour Simon, 2001, Chronicle Books, $7.95, softbound, 48 pages:
Before you even get to the Table of Contents in this book, you are confronted with the large, face-to-face image of some pretty alarming creatures: a spider, a piranha and a cobra first, then a vulture on the introduction page.
These are, indeed, animals people don’t usually love. They’re fearsome, strange or they’re pests, and rarely has anything good been said about most of them.
Seymour Simon, it seems, intends to change that, explaining that many animals get a bad reputation, and that people simply don’t understand them.
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