What If You Had an Animal Tongue!? by Sandra Markle

What If You Had an Animal Tongue!?

Sandra Markle

Scholastic Inc. · Print & ebook · September 15, 2020

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Who it’s for
Animal tongues take center stage, from food-detecting Komodo dragons to woodpeckers digging in trees.
Themes
Animal adaptations, Animal tongues, Human anatomy
Genres
Animal Facts, Animals & Zoology

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If you could have any animal's tongue, whose would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and your tongue wasn't yours? What If You Had an Animal Tongue!? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal's tongue instead of your own!

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From a Komodo dragon's split, yellow tongue (which can detect food from five miles away) to a woodpecker's long, thorny tongue (used to dig into trees for food), discover what it would be like if you had these special tongues -- and find out why your tongue is just the right one for you!

Tongues at Work

Animal tongues take center stage, from food-detecting Komodo dragons to woodpeckers digging in trees.

Come here for

  • A Komodo dragon’s tongue that detects food from five miles away
  • A woodpecker’s thorny tongue, used to dig into trees for food

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  • Imagined animal tongues in place of your own
  • Why your tongue is just right for you

Where it sits

Animal Facts86%
Animals & Zoology61%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Animal Facts
  • Reptiles & Amphibians
  • Jungle Animals
Authors
Sandra Markle
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
Published
September 15, 2020
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Animal adaptations · Animal tongues · Human anatomy
Reading lane
Animal Facts