Are you curious about slithery snakes, loungey lizards, spooky spiders, fuzzy ferrets, and freckled frogs? If so, this book is for you! Extreme Pets! introduces all the coolest creatures you've been wanting to know more about. You'll learn about corn snakes, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, veiled chameleons, bearded dragons, green anoles, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, sugar gliders, rats, Madagascan hissing cockroaches, giant African millipedes, tarantulas, monarch butterflies, silkworm caterpillars, Chinese fire-bellied toads, red-eyed tree frogs, dumpy tree frogs, pac man frogs, American toads, tadpoles, and slugs. Jane Harrington's excellent guide to responsible ownership of an exotic pet-presented in kid-friendly language-is filled with everything you will need to know about proper care and feeding. Not all animals make good pets-and all animals deserve to be treated with respect and not neglect. Extreme Pets! is the perfect book for budding zoologists and their parents, and will help them make informed decisions about what kinds of critters might make a safe addition to their home.