Stories for Growing
Curiosity

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

Ages 6 to 9
About this age guidance

Kirkus: 6–9

The age tag follows Kirkus review. Other sources may suggest different ages. This is audience guidance, not an independent reading level.

A librarian and mother recommends the question-and-reveal format for curious young readers.

Close views of animal body parts create a series of questions. Subsequent spreads show the animals and explain how those parts work. Further information extends the inquiry. There is no invented protagonist or emotional conflict.

Good forAsking questions

Recommended by Hey Mrs. Library Lady

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What children see in the story

Questions recur across different body parts, and turning the page offers a way to pursue each one.

Why it’s on these shelves

Curiosity
Each page shows a close view of an animal part, such as a tail, and asks what the animal does with it. The next page answers, and more facts let readers keep investigating.

Why pick it up?

Questions receive explanations, with additional animal information available.

A note for parents

One animal-defense example shows a horned lizard squirting blood from its eyes; another discusses a detachable tail. These are biological examples, not play to imitate.

Where this recommendation comes from

Hey Mrs. Library Lady

A librarian and mother recommends the question-and-reveal format for curious young readers.

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