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This Tell Me Why book is written in a question-and-answer format. Children will learn facts about more than eighteen different animals while reading this nonfiction book. - Tell me why polar bears walk on water?
- Tell me why hummingbirds are like helicopters?
- Tell me why octopuses make ink?
Other questions reference cheetahs, ladybugs, spiders, and a “dragon.” The answers, which are four to seven sentences in length, appear below the question.
Surrounding the text are full-page cartoon illustrations of the animals doing humorous things related to the question (the funniest being the penguin that wants to fly so he dresses as Batman). Photographs and facts about similar animals are incorporated into the artwork as well. For example, information about sun bears can be found on the polar bear page.
This book does answer some interesting questions, but because the answers are brief and the artwork is cutesy, six-to eight year olds might be the best audience for this book.
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Tell Me Why Elephants Have Trunks: and Other Questions about Animals