Real-life Monsters is a four-book series that brings you up close to the strangest and deadliest animals to show why they are how they are. Each title presents a top 10 of nature’s most unusual critters, scored and ranked according to weirdness.

In Creepy, Crawly Creatures, meet the creepy crustacean that attaches itself to the tongue of fish (and eats it), and the incredible-looking devil’s flower mantis – a feast of the brilliant and scary insects and arthropods. A feast of the small and brilliant insects and spiders from around the world.