Awards

• Chickadee Award Shortlist
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
• North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee
• Picture This! Reading List

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"""[P]ictures of children with extra eyes, moving eyes, antennae, and animalistic pupils are intriguingly bizarre to look at and will likely keep curious children coming back to this book for stares and giggles.""--Kirkus Reviews -- (8/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) ""The brilliant pairing of author, educator, and veterinarian Levine and artist with a funny bone Spookytooth yields a mix of fun, facts, and conjecture. A fabulous addition to classroom studies of animals and nonfiction literature. Also perfect for personal enjoyment.""--starred, School Library Journal -- (9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)"

This picture book asks readers to imagine having the eyes of various different animals. What kind of animal would you be if you had eight eyes? Turn the page to find out: a jumping spider. What if you had six eyes, each at the end of an arm instead of a hand? What if you had rectangular pupils? Brown-skinned children, one wearing hijab, are pictured modeling the imagined eye structures, interacting with animals and insects, and learning from books and charts. The pattern of asking a question and answering it on the next page works to keep readers engaged, guessing and turning pages. The pictures of children with extra eyes, moving eyes, antennae, and animalistic pupils are intriguingly bizarre to look at and will likely keep curious children coming back to this book for stares and giggles. The text is fairly lengthy for a picture book and offers profound scientific information; though it is easy to understand, the spidery, thin cursivelike type that conveys it is a little daunting for youngsters. Unanswered questions are included in the text, showing that science is an ongoing investigation. The backmatter includes simple activities, more about pupils, a glossary, and further reading. (This book was reviewed digitally with 11-by-18.5-inch double-page spreads viewed at 29.5% of actual size.) A fascinating and (mostly) well-formatted exploration.--Kirkus Reviews -- Journal

""[P]ictures of children with extra eyes, moving eyes, antennae, and animalistic pupils are intriguingly bizarre to look at and will likely keep curious children coming back to this book for stares and giggles.""—Kirkus Reviews ""The brilliant pairing of author, educator, and veterinarian Levine and artist with a funny bone Spookytooth yields a mix of fun, facts, and conjecture. A fabulous addition to classroom studies of animals and nonfiction literature. Also perfect for personal enjoyment.""—starred, School Library Journal

An appealing offering of 'what if?' questions, laugh-out-loud illustrations, and clearly presented information details how different animals see. The book begins by posing questions ('Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the world through someone else's eyes?' 'What if those eyes belonged to an animal?') and providing context for comparing animal eyes ('Most animals have eyes, but not all eyes are the same.'). The text offers surprising, informative answers. The question, 'What kind of animal would you be if you had eight eyes?' is accompanied by an illustration of a tan-skinned child with eight eyes. When readers turn the page, they learn that the answer is 'a spider!' and that some spiders can have as many as 12 eyes. Brown-skinned children, including a girl wearing hijab, are pictured throughout. Levine describes the eyes of sea stars, snails, slugs, flounders, and owls and how the pupils of different animals (such as goats, cats, and cuttlefish) differ in terms of their shape. She also explains that not all eyeballs are smooth and that some animals see colors differently than humans do. The book ends with thought-provoking activities. VERDICT The brilliant pairing of author, educator, and veterinarian Levine and artist with a funny bone Spookytooth yields a mix of fun, facts, and conjecture. A fabulous addition to classroom studies of animals and nonfiction literature. Also perfect for personal enjoyment.--starred, School Library Journal -- Journal (9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM) This picture book asks readers to imagine having the eyes of various different animals. What kind of animal would you be if you had eight eyes? Turn the page to find out: a jumping spider. What if you had six eyes, each at the end of an arm instead of a hand? What if you had rectangular pupils? Brown-skinned children, one wearing hijab, are pictured modeling the imagined eye structures, interacting with animals and insects, and learning from books and charts. The pattern of asking a question and answering it on the next page works to keep readers engaged, guessing and turning pages. The pictures of children with extra eyes, moving eyes, antennae, and animalistic pupils are intriguingly bizarre to look at and will likely keep curious children coming back to this book for stares and giggles. The text is fairly lengthy for a picture book and offers profound scientific information; though it is easy to understand, the spidery, thin cursivelike type that conveys it is a little daunting for youngsters. Unanswered questions are included in the text, showing that science is an ongoing investigation. The backmatter includes simple activities, more about pupils, a glossary, and further reading. (This book was reviewed digitally with 11-by-18.5-inch double-page spreads viewed at 29.5% of actual size.) A fascinating and (mostly) well-formatted exploration.--Kirkus Reviews -- Journal (8/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)

Author Information

Sara Levine is an author, educator, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series, Germs Up Close, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize, Utah Beehive Book Award, Cook Prize finalist, Monarch Award master list, and Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. T.S Spookytooth has been illustrating for many years. Throughout these years of brandishing a paintbrush, he has explored the diverse fields of children’s picture books; magazine and newspaper illustrations; and advertising, packaging, and illustrating for websites. When not working on illustration commissions, he likes to find time to work on many of his own personal projects. He keeps these projects locked in a suitcase but sometimes he forgets where he left the key. An ideal day for Mr. Spookytooth is to ponder and then to draw these ponderings. Some food is fitted in along the way followed by more ponderings and the occasional readjustment of his bow tie, but ponderings are the main order of the day. He also lives in a house with Mrs. Spookytooth and thankfully she is fond of a ponder as well . . . and is good at finding lost keys.

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