Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles: A Curious Counting Book

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.

Did you know...
a praying mantis only has one ear?
a squid has three hearts?
a giant African land snail can have up to eighteen thousand teeth?

Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles 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!

Author: Steve Jenkins, Robin Page
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 07/22/2025
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 10.65h x 8.75w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780316456692