--- product_id: 1693488 title: "What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?" price: "₹ 1847" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/1693488-what-do-you-do-with-a-tail-like-this store_origin: IN region: India --- # What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? **Price:** ₹ 1847 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 1847 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/1693488-what-do-you-do-with-a-tail-like-this) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In this beautiful 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. Review: What Do You Review With A Book Like This - This book is breathtaking, a real stand-out visually -- and at the same time grippingly educational and fun for kids. If you want to see that dawning light of curiousity and hunger for understanding in a child that's just learning that it's fun to learn, there's no better book than this one. The animals are rendered with great richness and depth by (if you look closely) beautiful torn-paper collages. It's so skillfully done by Steve Jenkins that all of the creatures are full of personality, and seem to live in a batik-cartoon world. The riveting part is how there are so many animals that each have unusual stories revealed through fun and different and interesting body parts. This is not a "first animals" book at all. Rather it gains its fascination by showing how animals make so many different uses of their body parts, uses that go against what you first think. For instance: A platypus uses its nose "to dig in the mud." But "[i]f you're an elephant, you use your nose to give yourself a bath" [image of trunk squirting water back over elephant's head]. For ears, you learn that a jackrabbit uses its ears to keep cool, and crickets have ears on their knees. A chimpanzee can eat with its feet, and a gecko's feet are sticky so it can walk on the ceiling. And so on. Engrossing and whimsical from page to page again and again. Just wonderful! At the end of the book, a section includes a one-paragraph "bio" with additional details about each animal, with the rest of the story on the unique appendage. For example, the chimpanzee has some general description, and also this detail about how they eat with their feet: "Like people, they have an opposable thumb. Unlike us, thy also have an opposable big toe. This allows them to pick up and manipulate things with their feet." This description is obviously way more advanced than the book itself -- but children love to hear more of the story about characters or animals from the adult reading to them, and this book gives you (the adult) the back story for every one of them. I was floored when What Do You Do with a Tail Like This arrived. Giggly and awed at the same time. The reviews didn't prepare me for how much I'd viscerally like this book the moment I opened it! I cannot recommend this highly enough! Review: I'm glad I looked at the reviews - I was looking for some new books to have when my grandson visits. He's the oldest, so I advance the level of my home library to meet his needs and fill in for the others if I need to. I happened across this book and, as is my habit, looked at the reviews. Most were 5-star, but I also look at the other reviews to see how they determined their rating. I decided to take my chances. This is a very nice book. My grandson's favorite books usually involve animals. When he was little, it was picture books about animals. This book looks like it will grow with him. It talks about the various parts of different animals and how they are used. He is very curious about what different animals do. so this should keep him interested. In the back of the book, there is a paragraph about each animal mentioned in the body of the book. I think this will interest him when he is older, more than now. My favorite books for children are books that are enjoyable for the adult to read as well as one that initiates a discussion. I think this book will do both of those. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #26,645 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #42 in Anatomy (Books) #45 in Children's Reptile & Amphibian Books (Books) #88 in Children's Zoology Books (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 555 Reviews | ## Images ![What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PY1x9ESaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What Do You Review With A Book Like This *by J***G on August 12, 2006* This book is breathtaking, a real stand-out visually -- and at the same time grippingly educational and fun for kids. If you want to see that dawning light of curiousity and hunger for understanding in a child that's just learning that it's fun to learn, there's no better book than this one. The animals are rendered with great richness and depth by (if you look closely) beautiful torn-paper collages. It's so skillfully done by Steve Jenkins that all of the creatures are full of personality, and seem to live in a batik-cartoon world. The riveting part is how there are so many animals that each have unusual stories revealed through fun and different and interesting body parts. This is not a "first animals" book at all. Rather it gains its fascination by showing how animals make so many different uses of their body parts, uses that go against what you first think. For instance: A platypus uses its nose "to dig in the mud." But "[i]f you're an elephant, you use your nose to give yourself a bath" [image of trunk squirting water back over elephant's head]. For ears, you learn that a jackrabbit uses its ears to keep cool, and crickets have ears on their knees. A chimpanzee can eat with its feet, and a gecko's feet are sticky so it can walk on the ceiling. And so on. Engrossing and whimsical from page to page again and again. Just wonderful! At the end of the book, a section includes a one-paragraph "bio" with additional details about each animal, with the rest of the story on the unique appendage. For example, the chimpanzee has some general description, and also this detail about how they eat with their feet: "Like people, they have an opposable thumb. Unlike us, thy also have an opposable big toe. This allows them to pick up and manipulate things with their feet." This description is obviously way more advanced than the book itself -- but children love to hear more of the story about characters or animals from the adult reading to them, and this book gives you (the adult) the back story for every one of them. I was floored when What Do You Do with a Tail Like This arrived. Giggly and awed at the same time. The reviews didn't prepare me for how much I'd viscerally like this book the moment I opened it! I cannot recommend this highly enough! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'm glad I looked at the reviews *by R***G on April 8, 2011* I was looking for some new books to have when my grandson visits. He's the oldest, so I advance the level of my home library to meet his needs and fill in for the others if I need to. I happened across this book and, as is my habit, looked at the reviews. Most were 5-star, but I also look at the other reviews to see how they determined their rating. I decided to take my chances. This is a very nice book. My grandson's favorite books usually involve animals. When he was little, it was picture books about animals. This book looks like it will grow with him. It talks about the various parts of different animals and how they are used. He is very curious about what different animals do. so this should keep him interested. In the back of the book, there is a paragraph about each animal mentioned in the body of the book. I think this will interest him when he is older, more than now. My favorite books for children are books that are enjoyable for the adult to read as well as one that initiates a discussion. I think this book will do both of those. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great gift for a.child. *by A***R on July 16, 2024* Peaked my interest. Amazing facts. 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