Look Behind!: Tales of Animal Ends [Hardcover]

Lola M. Schaefer (Author), Heather Lynn Miller (Author), Jane Manning (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up

Did you know that animal and insect butts are amazing?

Who has a glowing butt?

Where do you see a zany butt?

From A to Z, look through these pages and see how many alpha-butts you can find.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2—The premise of this alphabet book is that animal buttocks are a way to engage children in basic information about animal behavior. Fancy Butt (a peacock), Dirty Butt (a warthog), and Knight in Shining Armor Butt (an armadillo) are among the 26 creatures that are showcased in large watercolor cartoons and a brief paragraph. The book is most successful when it provides information specific to an animal's rear end. For example, the author explains how the Popping Butt (a bombardier beetle) mixes two chemicals inside its buttocks and uses it to spray its enemy. It falters on the discussion of Glowing Butt (a firefly), which is not accompanied by information about how it produces its glow. The book regularly loses its way when the page has nothing to do with a creature's buttocks at all. For instance, the Hairy Butt (a polar bear) has fur from head to toe. Despite its bright and amusing illustrations, this book suffers from a broad and shallow scope hanging on a slight gimmick.—Ellen Heath, Easton Area Public Library, Easton, PA
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About the Author

Lola M. Schaefer is the author of several books for children, including An Island Grows; Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, an NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts; and What's Up, What's Down? She lives with her husband, Ted, in the mountains of north Georgia, where she occasionally observes the back end of a black bear, coyote, or gray fox.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books (March 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060883936
• ISBN-13: 978-0060883935
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 9.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,915,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars A nice book, BUTT,, May 5, 2009

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Alice Fielding "kangarunitarian" (Norman, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Look Behind!: Tales of Animal Ends (Hardcover)

I can't really get past the repeated use of the word "butt" in a book intended for young children. When I was a child, "butt" was a bad word that I would have gotten in trouble for using. I would be much too uncomfortable to read this to my young daughter, and I would think an older child would be turned off by the "baby" illustrations (although they are quite good).