Books like What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
For the kid who peppers every walk with why does that animal do that, this book turns curiosity itself into the game. Curious, playful, a little bit gross in the best way — page-turning suspense built into a nonfiction format.
A gallery of real animals shown at their true size — a two-foot tongue, an eye bigger than your head — turning astonishing facts into something you can see with your own eyes.
A white shape drifts across page after page of blue sky, looking like a rabbit, a bird, an ice-cream cone, and more — until a final reveal answers what it really is.
A time-traveling guide skydives into Sequoia National Park, leading young explorers through groves of giant trees to uncover the park's history, wildlife, and a hidden danger threatening its ancient giants.
Four tiny eggs hatch into hungry caterpillars, who eat, grow, and eventually transform inside their chrysalises into full-grown butterflies ready to fly free.
A nonfiction picture book that explains how scientists uncover dinosaur fossils bone by fragile bone, then piece giant skeletons back together inside museums for us to see today.
A tour through the natural world reveals how seeds travel to new ground — riding ocean waves, rolling in dung beetle balls, or drifting away on the wind.
A boy named George and his grandfather Mr. Jones set sail in search of a real dragon, hunting high and low through pages kids can touch and explore.
An author-illustrator named Harris Burdick vanishes, leaving behind fourteen mysterious drawings with only a title and a single line of text each — and no story to explain them.
A journey around the world explores real homes shaped by their surroundings, from bedrooms carved into Spanish mountains to a floating house in the Netherlands that rotates to catch both the sunrise and sunset.
A girl named Emily writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, insisting a blue whale is living in her pond, and the two trade letters all summer as he tries to set her straight.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
