A Fun Children’s Book on Animal Classification
If we wish to raise the next generation to love and protect all species, then start them young, with this fun yet educational book.
Get Your Animals In Order is a book published in association with the Natural History Museum, making the subject of scientific animal classification fun and interesting.
Every creature ever discovered has been added to a group within the animal kingdom, from whales to worms and from snakes to stinkbugs.
Learn the similarities, differences and connections between animal groups, and discover how scientists help conserve animals, and their habitats.
There are just two main groups of animals: vertebrates with backbones (animals, fish) and invertebrates without backbones (crustaceans, insects and spiders are examples). Vertebrates are divided into five species:
- Mammals (including us)
- Birds
- Amphibians
- Reptiles
- Fish
However, nearly all the world’s creatures are invertebrates including insects (this includes bees, butterflies and beetles), earthworms, spiders, slugs, snails and spiders.
Scientists also classify plants into two types: ones that make seeds (trees and flowering plants) and those that don’t (like moss or fern). Then we have bacteria and fungi (which includes, mushrooms and even viruses).
About the Author and Artist
Michael Bright has worked as an executive producer with BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol and is a member of the Royal Society of Biology, who has worked with Sir David Attenborough.
Illustrator Gavin Scott spent much of his childhood drawing and painting animals and birds, and studied for a BA Natural History Illustration at Bournemouth Arts University. He loves rock-climbing in Dorset, and riding his old Triumph motorbike.
