Animalium (2014)

The animal reference that looks like a natural history museum on paper, which is exactly its idea. Katie Scott's detailed, old-fashioned specimen drawings are arranged in galleries through the animal kingdom, with Jenny Broom's notes beside them. It is the book here for the child who loves drawing as much as facts, and the large format makes it a shared browse for parent and child. The text suits about nine and up, though younger children happily use it as a picture book. It began the Welcome to the Museum series in 2014, so a child who loves it has more volumes to move on to.