Look at Me!: How to Attract Attention in the Animal World

by Robin Page (Author)

Look at Me!: How to Attract Attention in the Animal World
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Showcasing the most attention-grabbing animals on the planet gathered together, this latest offering from an award-winning husband-and-wife team helps readers understand the range of ways animals try to get one another's attention and why. Full color.
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School Library Journal

Gr 1-4--Readers who have just learned about the concept of camouflage will be pleasantly startled by this book's premise. In their signature style, Jenkins and Page explain why standing out in the animal world is sometimes just as important as blending in. For purposes of mating or sending signals to an enemy, even masters of camouflage can change their behavior by puffing themselves up, inflating parts of their bodies like balloons, emitting odors, changing color, or tricking predators with fake eye spots. Leaping, dancing, and screaming are also among the many abilities explained. Fans of little-known facts will find hours of fun to be had with this volume; readers will collect information about unusual creatures such as blue-spotted mudskippers, sarcastic fringeheads, long-tailed widowbirds, and four-eyed butterfly fish. In addition, the back matter includes an encyclopedic section of entries on the animals featured along with thumbprint pictures. The glorious, eye-catching torn and cut--paper collage illustrations throughout this book are a treat. VERDICT Another beautiful, well-researched work from the reliable pair. Librarians can purchase with confidence.--Gloria Koster, West School, New Canaan, CT

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Review quotes

"Animals with fake eye spots, glowing lures, putrid flesh, and stinky glands will fascinate kids who love weird and wonderful science."—Kirkus

"Another beautiful, well-researched work from the reliable pair. Librarians can purchase with confidence."-School Library Journal

"There are plenty of animals luring others to their doom in kid- appealing ways."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Robin Page
Robin Page has written and illustrated many picture books celebrating the natural world, including the 2003 Caldecott Honor recipient What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, which she created with her husband Steve Jenkins, and her own A Chicken Followed Me Home!, Seeds Move!, and Shall We Dance?. Robin lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780544935532
Lexile Measure
920
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
June 19, 2018
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF003000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
Library of Congress categories
Animals
Animal behavior
Habits and behavior
Animal defenses
Courtship
Courtship in animals
Social hierarchy in animals

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