Steve Jenkins Robin Page
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Story / Adventure
- Maker / Problem-Solving
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Cut-paper close-ups ask readers to identify which animal owns an unusual nose, ear, eye, mouth, foot, or tail before the page reveals its function. The visual mystery turns comparative anatomy into a repeated guess-and-check game across many animal groups.
The science inside
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Animals & Zoology
- Ecosystems
Your child will meet:
- A body structure can be understood by connecting its shape and position to what an animal does with it.
- The same named body part can perform different functions in different species.
- Birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals, and arthropods show wide structural diversity.
- A close-up clue may support several hypotheses until behavior or whole-body context is revealed.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
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.
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.
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