What Do You Do With a Tail LIke This? Book Review

"What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?" is a 2004 Caldecott Honor Book written by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. "What Do You Do…" is a beautifully illustrated animal book that leads readers on a guessing game. Pages are filled with realistic pictures of animal parts and questions that correspond. For example, one page shows the hands of various animals and asks what these hands do. The following page shows the animal in which the hand belongs and tells a short interesting fact about the animal and what it does.

Jenkins and Page have created a fun and enjoyable book for readers of all ages. Not only do readers have to indentify the animal in which the part belongs (hand, feet, tail, nose, eyes, ears and tongue), they are given an interesting fact about how the animal uses that part. Did you know that the chameleon uses its eyes to look two ways at once?

What I really liked about this book was the informative glossary at the end. Each body part discussed prior in the book is detailed with interesting facts in full about each animal.