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

<b>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.</b> <p/> Did you know... <br> a praying mantis only has <b>one</b> ear? <br> a squid has <b>three</b> hearts? <br> a giant African land snail can have up to <b>eighteen thousand </b>teeth? <p/><i>Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles</i> 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!<br><br><b>Author:</b> Steve Jenkins, Robin Page<br><b>Publisher:</b> Little, Brown Books for Young Readers<br><b>Published:</b> 07/22/2025<br><b>Pages:</b> 40<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Size:</b> 10.25h x 10.25w x 0.38d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316456692<br><b>Audience:</b> Ages 9-12<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Steve Jenkins </b>wrote and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor-winning <i>What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?</i> His books have been called stunning, eye-popping, inventive, gorgeous, masterful, extrao