Snakes Have No Legs: An adorably weird but true little book about snakes

by Kelly Tills

Overview

Can a snake wear shoes? No! But they sure can win a race.

Snuggle up with your tiny human as they learn how snakes can slither up trees, on land and even in the water. See all the fun shapes a snake can make with its body and giggle as the legged animals try to do the same.

Enjoy hearing your child shout out the answers to silly questions like "Can a snake wear gloves?" This call and response format is a time-tested method for keeping kids engaged and interacting, instead of just chewing on the pages.

For the most curious toddlers, there's a bonus page of a few more fun facts about snakes.

Part of the Different Bodies series

These sweet books us vibrant illustrations, and fun facts about animals to introduce kids to body diversity. Revel in giggles with your tiny human as they absorb the value of being different.

Geared for the attention span of the youngest readers, each book focuses on one interesting fact about one animal at a time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781955758932
Publisher:	FDI Publishing LLC
Publication date:	09/21/2021
Series:	Awesome Animals
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	28
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	Up to 5 Years

About the Author

Kelly Tills writes silly, funny books for kids. She believes even the smallest hat-tip, in the simplest of books, can teach our kids how to approach the world. Her children's stories are perfect to read aloud to little humans, or for the older kids to read themselves (hey, let them flex those new reading skills!). Either way, everyone will enjoy the giggles.Kelly is the head of her own neuro-unique family. Her books are dyslexia-friendly. Feminism, celebrating neurodiversity, and potty humor are her jam.

Editorial Reviews

2022-05-12
A humorous picture book explores what snakes can and can’t do.

Snakes can’t wear shoes or gloves, of course, because they have no feet or hands—but can they wear a scarf? “Well,” writes Tills, “maybe a long, long one.” A mix of kid-savvy, funny-bone entertainment, and clearly expressed, simple facts about snake physiology and behavior, this story for children, from toddlers to early readers, will make adults smile, too. (Birds have two legs, the author observes, adding, “flamingos think they have one.”) In tandem with the humor, Tills informs her audience that even though snakes don’t have feet, they do have “tiny belly muscles” that allow them to coil and twist their bodies and slither “on the ground, up a tree, or in the water.” The author frames some of the story’s black-and-white images by GetYourBookIllustrations of a goofy, polka-dot snake and other cartoon-style animals on full-page backgrounds of saturated colors, many patterned with a reptilian scale motif. Other pictures are positioned on white pages and accented with colorful shapes. The book concludes with a gentle segue from Tills presenting comic and factual reasons that show snakes are “wonderful” to asking children to name something that makes them “wonderful,” too. The snake and his friends appear to be interested in the response. This work is part of the author’s Awesome Animals series, which includes Pigs Never Sweat! (2021).

A tongue-in-cheek look at snakes that will make kids giggle.

Kirkus Reviews