What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 18, 2008
In this beautiful Caldecott Honor picture book, Steven Jenkins and illustrator Robin Page explore the many amazing things animals can do with eyes, ears, mouth, noses, feet, and tails.
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- Who it’s for
- A playful guessing game turns animal senses and body parts into small, satisfying discoveries.
- Themes
- Animal adaptations, Animal diversity, Discovery and curiosity
- Genres
- Animal Facts, Animals & Zoology, Birds
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In this beautiful Caldecott Honor picture book, Steven Jenkins and illustrator Robin Page explore the many amazing things animals can do with eyes, ears, mouth, noses, feet, and tails. Young readers will relish the mystery behind this interactive guessing book. A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Turn the page to find out which marvelous animal these attributes belong to.
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With six full spreads illustrated in cut-paper collage and an end glossary with even more fantastic facts, readers will learn about species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals, and arthropods. Arresting details and visual surprises abound in this nonfiction picture book that will stir the imaginations of readers young and old.
Animal-Body Surprises
A playful guessing game turns animal senses and body parts into small, satisfying discoveries.
Come here for
- Guess which animal has each surprising feature.
- Spot unexpected uses for eyes, ears, noses, feet, and tails.
Expect
- Cut-paper collage across six full spreads.
- An end glossary with more animal facts.
Where it sits
| Animal Facts | 89% |
|---|---|
| Animals & Zoology | 56% |
| Birds | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Animal Facts
- Dinosaurs & Prehistory
- Mammals
- Reptiles & Amphibians
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- Size & Shape
- Ecosystems & Environment
- Authors
- Steve Jenkins, Robin Page
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 18, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Animal adaptations · Animal diversity · Discovery and curiosity
- Reading lane
- Animal Facts