What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
The Story
A guessing game moves through noses, ears, eyes, feet, and tails, asking what different animals do with each — like eyes that squirt blood or ears built for seeing — before revealing who they belong to.
Why It's Special
For the kid who peppers every walk with why does that animal do that, this book turns curiosity itself into the game.
- Big idea: Body parts are tools — and nature solves the same problems in wildly different ways depending on who's doing the solving.
- Vibes: Curious, playful, a little bit gross in the best way — page-turning suspense built into a nonfiction format.
Perfect For Kids Who
- love guessing games and hidden answers
- enjoy weird and surprising animal facts
- are working on asking questions and making predictions
- respond well to cut-paper collage art with bold visual detail
Ask Your Little Reader
- Prediction: Before you turned the page, what animal did you think had eyes that squirt blood?
- Imagination: If you could have a nose like one of the animals in this book, whose would you pick and why?
- Real-life connection: Which of your own body parts do you use the way these animals use theirs — like your ears or your feet?
- Story & problem-solving: Why do you think different animals use the same body part in such different ways?
- Curiosity: Which animal in the glossary surprised you the most, and what did you learn about it?
