What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
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What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?

Written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
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4 - 7
Reading age
32
Page count
510L
Lexile measure
May 1, 2008
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In this 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. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780618997138
    Publication Date
    May 1, 2008
    Publisher
    Houghton Mifflin
    Page Count
    32
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    4 - 7 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2002011673
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    180753249
    Lexile® Level
    510L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~N
    Est. ATOS® Book Level
    ~3.4

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