Animal Book

A book published by O'Reilly Publishing (Oreilly And Associates, www.oreilly.com ) which has an artful drawing of an animal on the cover.

Any book published by O'Reilly Publishing.

This is quite a good idea. It gives their line of books a uniform appearance while still giving each book an individual identity, with the Camel Book as the prime example. Similar is Wrox Press using photos of authors on the covers. O'Reilly has posted a few essays about their use of animals on book covers: web.archive.org Date: February 2003

Don't you love the way they had a perfectly good animal given the title of this book, but completely disregarded it?

There is a reason: www.rmi.net Wood rats must learn about Pythons!

Alternatively, maybe this is why:

The "Learning" books often have smaller, cuter animals than other books. Compare

with and

I'm not sure there's such a thing as a cute python, but a cute rodent is easy.

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