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Guess the animal! Amazing body parts do surprising things.

What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?

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  • Paperback

    32 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2008

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780618997138
ISBN-10:061899713X
Author:Steve Jenkins, Robin Page
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
Imprint:Houghton Mifflin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:32
Edition:1st
Release Date:14 April 2008
Weight:158g
Dimensions:4mm x 248mm x 248mm
Audience Age:4
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What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins - ISBN: 9780618997138
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

“This is a striking, thoughtfully created book with intriguing facts made more memorable through dynamic art.”

“This array of wide eyes and open mouths will definitely have viewers responding with wide eyes and open mouths of their own.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“This is a striking, thoughtfully created book with intriguing facts made more memorable through dynamic art.” - Booklist (starred review)

“Jenkins, this time in collaboration with his wife, has created yet another eye-opening book.” - School Library Journal (starred review)

“Jenkin’s cut-paper collage illustrations are, as usual, ingenious and remarkable in their clarity, their several components neatly articulating the anatomy of their subjects.” - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Steve Jenkins contributes another artistically wrought, imaginatively conceived look at the natural world.” - Publishers Weekly

About The Author

Steve Jenkins

Steve Jenkins has illustrated many children”s books, including What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, a Caldecott Honor Book, and The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has also illustrated Wiggling Worms at Work, Life in a Coral Reef, and Almost Gone in the Let”s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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