David Alderton

An extensive guide to over 300 dog breeds, with detailed entries featuring high-quality photography and precise text. The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 300 dog breeds from around the world. Authoritative text, crystal-clear photography, and a systematic approach make this the most comprehensive and concise pocket guide to dogs of the world. Packed with more than 1,000 full-colour...

A captivating exploration of the world’s mysterious creatures. Legendary creatures capture our imagination in a way quite unlike those known with certainty to exist. In Mysterious Creatures, David Alderton and Akara Heart bring readers into a shadowy, uncertain realm where myth and reality collide. Their enthralling investigation unveils the tantalising truths behind the world’s most enigmatic creatures, and how they...

Vintage Cats tests your memory with a 50-card matching card game featuring 25 pairs of the world’s most iconic cats, beautifully rendered in vintage illustrations.  The accompanying 80-page illustrated guidebook is full of vintage full-color illustrations by Peter Warner, as well as descriptions of 25 of the world’s most iconic cat breeds, their origins, physical characteristics, and temperaments, with information...

Vintage Dogs tests your memory with a 50-card matching game featuring 25 pairs of the world’s most iconic dogs, beautifully rendered in vintage illustrations.  The accompanying 80-page illustrated guidebook is full of vintage full-color illustrations by Arthur Wardle, as well as descriptions of each of the dogs and their breed’s origins, physical characteristics, and temperaments, with information on 25 additional related breeds, all...

This is a practical guide to caring for your pet, in step-by-step photographs. Filled with useful information and guidance, from how to choose a guinea pig, to feeding and healthcare, How to Look After Your Guinea Pig offers practical advice on how to groom your pet, how to know when it is unwell, and cleaning out its cage, all shown...

How to Look After Your Pet Dog by David Alderton is a practical guide to caring for your pet, presented with step-by-step photographs. It is packed with essential information and advice, from how to choose a dog to feeding and healthcare. Ideal for 5- to 9-year-olds, this book will enable children to make friends with their puppy or dog and...

This is a practical guide to caring for your pet, presented in step-by-step photographs. It is packed with all the essential information you need—choosing the right rabbit, preparing a home for it, what to feed it and when, and keeping your pet healthy. It includes 60 instructional and inspirational photographs. How to Look After Your Pet Rabbit allows young readers...

Dogs can find themselves homeless and living on the streets for a wide variety of reasons. The lucky ones are taken to rescue shelters where staff work hard to re-home them. Adopting and caring for a re-homed dog can be challenging at first, but when it works out you really do have a friend for life. My Rescue Dog: A...

Small Pets and Pet Care, The Complete Practical Guide to by David Alderton offers a comprehensive, practical guide to pet-keeping, covering all aspects of choosing and caring for a wide range of pets. This newly updated 2021 edition explores caring for kittens and cats, puppies and dogs, as well as popular small mammals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils,...