What If You Had an Animal Tongue!?
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Picture Book · Ages 4–8 · 2020 · Est. 8 min read-aloud

What If You Had an Animal Tongue!?

Written by Sandra Markle · Illustrated by Howard McWilliam

Part of the What If You Had series

What if you woke up with an animal's tongue? Discover the wild possibilities.

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32 pages· 987 words· Est. 8 min read-aloud
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Imagine waking up with a tongue that's not your own. Explore the world of animal tongues, from a Komodo dragon's food-detecting split tongue to a woodpecker's tree-digging thorny tongue. What would life be like with these unique abilities, and why is your own tongue perfect just as it is? Dive into a world of wild transformations and discover the surprising benefits of your own tongue.

From the publisher

If you could have any animal’s tongue, whose would you choose?What if you woke up one morning and your tongue wasn’t yours? What If You Had an Animal Tongue!? – the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series – explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal’s tongue instead of your own! From a Komodo dragon’s split, yellow tongue (which can detect food from five miles away) to a woodpecker’s long, thorny tongue (used to dig into trees for food), discover what it would be like if you had these special tongues – and find out why your tongue is just the right one for you!

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Format
Paperback
Pages
32
Words
987
Reading age
4–8
Audience
Picture
Lexile
810L
Themes & topics
Books about animalsBooks about jungle animalsBooks about reptiles and amphibiansBooks about tonguesBooks about animal facts
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.6
F&P level
~S
AR points
0.5
AR interest level
LG
AR quiz
509249
Publication
Published
September 15, 2020
Edition
Language
English
Type
Picture Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781338596670

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