Review: Wildlife Ranger Action Guide by Mary Kay Carson

 Full of beautiful pictures, this book is a combination of 2 types -- projects and field guide.  The overall set up is split into 6 sections. The first section "You can save wild animals" is the only section that contains only projects.  Each of the following sections contains between 3-9 projects focused on that subset of animals (birds, bugs, reptiles, amphibians & mammals), and then is followed by a field guide section showing common animals of that type.  The project pages are split between more detailed how-to's and more idea generating pages, however all of them appeared relatively do-able without too much input from Mom and Dad, and mostly the type of thing my animal lover would enjoy doing.   For the field guide section,  I think this would be a hard one to cover all areas well -- and in this case although they were split between across the US, towards the east coast, and towards the west coast -- but as a mountain state resident, the east coast did seem slightly more represented (and there were a couple insects that live in a very small area only).  I bought a copy for my animal lover, but overall this is the type of book that I would suggest checking out of the library first if available.