Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do

Dear axolotl: Why do you have feathers growing out of your head? Axolotl: They aren’t feathers?they’re gills! They let me breathe underwater. Let’s face it. Even as babies, we humans pay close attention to faces. Observing another person’s features and expressions tells us whether they are happy, angry, excited, or sad. And when we look at an animal, it’s hard not to imagine that its face is communicating human feelings. This isn’t true, of course. Squinty eyes, an upturned mouth, or another odd expression is probably there because, in some way, it helps that animal survive. Packed with many cool facts and visuals on where certain animals live and what they eat, this book captures twenty-five humorous?and very true?explanations of why animals look the way they do in order to exist in this world. AGES: 4-8 AUTHOR: Steve Jenkins has published more than thirty books on the HMH list, with cumulative sales of over 2.5 million copies. He has illustrated sixteen books for other publishers. Winner of a Caldecott Honor, two New York Times Best Illustrated awards, a Boston Globe Horn Book Award, and numerous other honors, Steve is one of the top nonfiction author-illustrators working today.
Robin Page, Steve’s wife and sometimes collaborator, has been a co-author with him on some of his most successful books, including Move! and What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?. Colour illustrations