What Do You Do with a Tail Like This ?

By Robin Page and Steve Jenkins

Book Overview

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547255551
• ISBN13: 9780547255552
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 1.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Perfect

My child absolutely loves the photos, the guessing, the structure, and learning about random animals.

L U C K Y T W I C E ! ! !

It is a good, informative book. Although my 9 years old son seems to be very old for this kind of reading, I still bought it for him because of the book's educational value. Surprise, surprise! - my Big Boy liked the book a lot(!) We now quiz each other about various animals... Another good book that I value a lot for its educational content is Why Some Cats are Rascals, Book 2 by B. Nowiki. I was afraid that in this case...

WHAT A FASCINATING, ORIGINAL WORK

This, simply put, is a book about tails, animal tails. I also covers ears, noses, feet and a number of other parts of the anatome of animals. The illustrations are detailed, beautiful and very, very eye catching. The text is a wealth of information, simply stated, that is very informative. The child that reads this one with an adult cannot help but learn more and more about the wonderful natural world around them. At...

What Do You Review With A Book Like This

This book is breathtaking, a real stand-out visually -- and at the same time grippingly educational and fun for kids. If you want to see that dawning light of curiousity and hunger for understanding in a child that's just learning that it's fun to learn, there's no better book than this one. The animals are rendered with great richness and depth by (if you look closely) beautiful torn-paper collages. It's so skillfully done...

Won over

I had thought about buying this, but always decided not to. My son (5 years old) checked this out of the library on his own. He loves it. The cut-paper artwork is beautiful. Despite the fact-based discussion, it can be a very fun book to read. On the section about whales being able to hear sounds hundreds of miles away, my son always breaks into a whale song of his own. He also stunned his daycare teachers when they went on-line...