Do Baby Elephants Suck Their Trunks: Amazing Ways Animals Are Just Like Us. Ben Lerwill. Illustrated by Katherine McEwen. 2022. 32 pages. [Source: Library]
First sentence: There are babies everywhere! Some babies can fly. Some babies can swim. And some babies can run faster than a fully grown person. Animal babies can be very different from people. But there are a lot of ways that we are the same. Especially as babies.
I love a good animal fact book. And this one was just a delight from cover to cover. To be fair, it had me from the title and cover. Who could not want to know the answer to that question...do baby elephants suck their trunks?????
Each two-page spread asks a question:
Do you suck your thumb?
Has a grown-up carried you in their arms?
How do you like to explore?
Did you wobble when you started to walk?
What are some of your favorite toys?
How do you stay warm?
Do you drink a lot of milk?
How do grown-ups help you get clean?
Do you have any loose teeth?
How much do you sleep?
(Of course, there's an introductory and concluding spread that don't follow this pattern.) I love the question and answer format of this one. So many different kinds of animals are introduced. The facts are fun and informative.
© 2022 Becky Laney of Young Readers
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