A great book to use for informational reports, I found out many great facts on reptiles.

DK Eyewitness Books: Reptile by Colin McCarthy is a great book for young readers (its intended market) as well as adults. I doubt many adults already know everything in this book, and the lavish illustrations are a nice change of pace from the usual text-oriented adult fare. For example, this book makes a nice companion for adults to read alongside Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction, an excellent book that needs more illustrations. Best of all, if you fall behind in your Goodreads Reading Challenge, you can make up all the ground you need with titles in the DK Eyewitness series. (The fact that I'm writing this review in December is purely coincidental, I swear.)

My only slight complaint is that this book seems to have originally appeared in 1991 and might not have been substantially updated in its (apparently) several reprintings. For example, it doesn't mention climate change at all, which wasn't on too many people's radar back in 1991, but has since emerged as a leading additional cause of environmental destruction and species loss on top of all the usual burning and shooting and poaching and trapping and road-killing and bulldozing and polluting that humans were doing. So when the book mentions human threats to the remaining wild reptiles, it makes a rather glaring omission. Given that all the young readers of this book are heading into a lifetime of steadily increasing climate chaos, with every decade almost certainly worse than the previous one, the sooner they understand what their parents' fossil-fuel-burning generation is throwing them into, the better.

It doesn't have the variety of images of different reptiles that the Reptileopedia has, but it is more focused on explaining how reptiles function and demonstrating it through it's images along side bits of text.