What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? #21
Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

Jenkins, S. & Page, R. (2003). What do you do with a tail like this? New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Awards: Caldecott Honor Award

Grade Level: K-4

Genre: Informational

Illustrations: water-colored and cut-paper college

Content Area: Science

Standards: Science: sense organs, animal physiology

Access features: Glossary of all the animals in the story, more detailed information was given about the animals.

Author’s Credibility: Steven Jenkins has won awards such as ALA Notable, Boston Globe Horn Book and School Library Journal Best Book. He has also illustrated books for other authors.

Summary: In a beautiful created picture book, Jenkins uses six animal parts (nose, ears, eyes, tail, mouth, and legs) to tell how each animal uses its body part.

Tone: Conversational

Voice: Pleasant

Text structure: Descriptive

Use: I would use it with the science unit on animals. I would have the students to predict what the answer to the next question. On each page, a question is asked, “What do you do with ears like these?”

Response: This book reminded me of the book, Stars Stars! I liked this book for the illustrations

Related Books: By Steve Jenkins
Slap, Squeak, and Scatter: How animals Communicate; Animals in Flight; What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You?
Science Processes: Observing, classifying