Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles

Written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

Discover bizarre animal features, from three-hearted squids to 18,000-toothed snails.

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Explore the animal kingdom's oddities, where a squid boasts three hearts and a snail flaunts 18,000 teeth. Dive into a world of peculiar features, from the two-tongued loris to a scallop's 200 eyes. This captivating journey reveals the wonders of nature's quirkiest creatures, sparking curiosity with every page. What other surprises await in this celebration of the animal world's most unusual traits?

From the publisher

This latest book by the Caldecott Honor-winning team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page highlights the numerous strange and fascinating features and appendages from teeth to toes to tongues of all kinds of animals. Did you know… a praying mantis only has one ear? a squid has three hearts? a giant African land snail can have up to eighteen thousand teeth? Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles celebrates and highlights the numerous unusual and strangely fascinating features and appendages of all kinds of animals, from horns to toes and stomachs to hearts. From the two-tongued loris to a scallop’s 200 eyes, readers will find joy in numbers with this latest book by these two masters of nonfiction. While not a counting book in the traditional sense, readers will enjoy learning all kinds of fun facts from the animal world as they look for fingers and fins!

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