Introduces the reader to an incredible group of animals, from the common garden snail to the giant squid.

Introduction -- Mollusk types -- Mollusks live -- Mollusk evolution -- How mollusks move -- Mollusk senses -- Food and feeding -- Hunters and the hunted -- Breeding and young -- slugs and snails -- marine gastropods -- bivalves -- Octopuses and nautiluses -- Squid and cuttlefish -- Other mollusks -- Giants -- Weird and wonderful -- Mollusks and us -- Animal classification -- animal phyla .