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Book Cover for: Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting Book, Steve Jenkins

Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting Book

Steve Jenkins

This latest book by the Caldecott Honor-winning team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page highlights the numerous strange and fascinating features and appendages from teeth to toes to tongues of all kinds of animals.

Did you know...
a praying mantis only has one ear?
a squid has three hearts?
a giant African land snail can have up to eighteen thousand teeth?

Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles celebrates and highlights the numerous unusual and strangely fascinating features and appendages of all kinds of animals, from horns to toes and stomachs to hearts. From the two-tongued loris to a scallop's 200 eyes, readers will find joy in numbers with this latest book by these two masters of nonfiction. While not a counting book in the traditional sense, readers will enjoy learning all kinds of fun facts from the animal world as they look for fingers and fins!

Book Details

  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Publish Date: Jul 22nd, 2025
  • Pages: 40
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.25in - 10.25in - 0.38in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9780316456692
  • Recommended age: 04-08
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Steve Jenkins wrote and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor-winning What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? His books have been called stunning, eye-popping, inventive, gorgeous, masterful, extraordinary, playful, irresistible, compelling, engaging, accessible, glorious, and informative.

Robin Page has written and illustrated many picture books celebrating the natural world, including many she created with her husband Steve Jenkins, as well as her own A Chicken Followed Me Home!, Seeds Move!, and Shall We Dance? Robin lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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