Synopsis
This dynamic picture book for preschoolers is an animal guessing game told in riddle style. One spread gives a visual hint showing a close-up of the nose and other clues about the animal, and then asks, Who needs that nose? The following spread shows the animal in full and answers the riddle. Bold, lively illustrations with lots of details and fun design help make this picture book a thoughtful, interactive read for little ones. The riddle element makes this a perfect choice for group storytime. Who Needs That Nose? features six different animals with distinctive noses, including elephants, bats, moles, whales, anteaters, and monkeys. Kids will come back to this book again and again, eager to show how much they know!
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1-A picture book that looks at the noses of six different animals. Each one is introduced in a flat verse (the mole-"Who needs a nose/pink as a flower,/a nose with twenty-two little fingers/that wiggle and squirm when/searching for worms?") and ends with the question, "Who needs that nose?" A detailed drawing of the nose by itself appears opposite the verse and the following spread shows the whole animal. The concept of animal design is brilliantly handled in Steve Jenkins and Robin Page's What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Houghton, 2003), so the real question for this title is: who needs it?-Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.