Description
This book will prompt the young reader to run to a mirror to gaze at his wide open mouth, to examine the teeth and roll the tongue to check that the eating structures do not resemble those portrayed in this delightfully illustrated book. While we may use our mouths primarily for eating, other animals have their oral cavities adapted for additional functions such climbing, killing, storing food and more.
Check out the different teeth structures between carnivores with their huge canines and herbivores with their efficient molars. Humans command two sets of teeth during a lifetime, but sharks and crocodiles constantly replace their dentures.
Frogs have an icky sticky tongue to capture a meal, while our pink moist tongue denotes health, and other animals show a variety of lingual colors. There is the blue-tongued skink or the forked yellow tongue of the frightful Komodo dragon and then there is the melanin rich black giraffe tongue.
Gaze at some of the longest teeth in the animal kingdom evidenced by the tusks of elephants, narwhals or walruses. So many intriguing facts in these animated remarks about the changes that jaws have undergone to fit different life styles in the animal life around us that will definitely delight the young reader.
