Do Not Eat Like a Tiger Shark!: Wacky Ways Animals Slurp, Chomp and Gulp

by Etta Kaner, Heather Wilson (Illustrator)

Overview

Animals eat and drink in surprising, amazing and downright weird ways. Bearded vultures throw their food. Dogs slurp when they’re thirsty. Amazon horned frogs swallow their meal whole. Cows burp. You should definitely NOT copy their behavior at the dinner table. It wouldn’t be funny at all. In fact it could be disastrous. So mind your manners and find out what you should NOT do when you’re eating or drinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459838130
Publisher:	Orca Book Publishers
Publication date:	08/13/2024
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.75(w) x 10.75(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	650L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Etta Kaner is an award-winning, internationally known author whose nonfiction books for children have been translated into many languages. A former teacher, she is passionate about science books for young readers. When she’s not writing, Etta loves trying out new recipes at her home in Toronto.

Heather Wilson is a Canadian illustrator and animation designer. She is a graduate of Sheridan College’s illustration program and recipient of the Brenda Clark Visual Narrative Award. Heather grew up on a southern Ontario farm, among corn stalks and strawberry fields. She now resides in Oakville, overlooking Lake Ontario.

Editorial Reviews

Rowdy fun, with a few morsels of fact on the side.”

Kirkus Reviews

A quick read, Do Not Eat Like a Tiger Shark! is both fun and informative. Highly recommended.”

CM: Canadian Review of Materials

2024-05-17
Guidelines for table manners that won’t irritate or gross out younger siblings.

Playing comparisons with animals for laughs, Kaner adjures readers not to taste their salads with their feet as butterflies do with their food, lap soup like a dog, or indulge in similarly inappropriate misbehavior. Wilson supplies cartoon views of both the wildlife in natural settings and a light-skinned, red-haired child slopping food while a darker-skinned little sibling and two parents—one light-skinned, one Black-presenting—look on in dismay (at first, anyway). A brown-skinned baby sibling gurgles with glee throughout. Along with explaining how, for instance, flamingo bills and the trunks of elephants help these animals pick up food and drink, the author adds tasty additional nature notes: Tasmanian devils sometimes fall asleep inside the carcasses they’re chewing on so that breakfast will be readily available when they awaken; tiger sharks chow down on rubber boots and other trash so indiscriminately that they’re known as the “garbage cans of the sea.” Except for a closing reminder to say “thank you” before leaving the table (because “that’s what people do!”), the examples provided are more likely to inspire than suppress gleeful acting out…but what mealtimes with children wouldn’t benefit from a little more chaos?

Rowdy fun, with a few morsels of fact on the side. (additional facts) (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews