What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? - by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page (Paperback)

About the Book

The Caldecott Honor Book about the many incredible things animals can do is now available in paperback. Full color.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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

"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)

"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