Snap! Stick Out Your Tongue!

by Bob Barner

Overview

Snap! Stick Out Your Tongue! takes a fascinating look at some of the planet's strangest creatures, and their tongues.

This clever novelty book features pull-and-release tabs—pull the tongue on each page and watch it snap back into place when you let go!

Filled with impressive facts about the wild's most remarkable tongues, this book is both entertaining and educational.

• A clever novelty book that mimics the tongues of the creatures featured
• Pull-and-release tabs that "snap!" back into place on every spread
• Makes it appear as if each animal is slurping dramatically

What animal has the largest tongue in the world? What animal's tongue is twice as long as its body?

Written and illustrated by the distinguished and ever-curious Bob Barner, this innovative "snapping" board book will satisfy even the hungriest of curious minds.

• Curious, animal-loving kids will go wild for this silly and irresistible book
• Perfect for children ages 3 to 5
• Equal parts educational and entertaining, this makes a great gift for parents and grandparents, as well as librarians, science teachers, and educators
• Add it to the shelf with books like Shark Bite! and Dino Chomp! by Little Bee Books, and Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book by Rod Campbell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452179414
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	12/15/2020
Series:	Snap Series
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Bob Barner is an award-winning author of many nonfiction children's books. He lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

"Face it: Tongues are weirdly enthralling to toddlers and preschoolers, who are going to be even more intrigued after experiencing this lively board book. . . . If the book has a downside, it's that there's not enough of it. Snap this one up."-Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-03-31
Novelty pull-tabs combined with fascinating animal-tongue facts.

Face it: Tongues are weirdly enthralling to toddlers and preschoolers, who are going to be even more intrigued after experiencing this lively board book. Inside, readers get up and close and personal with five different animal faces. Pull the tab from their mouths, and a tongue emerges, from an insect-covered anteater’s to an unexpectedly blue, leaf-coated giraffe tongue. Once the tongue’s out, let go—and snap!—it recedes with a satisfying noise, as though the animal is hungrily devouring its meal. Because the elastic that enables this special effect seems both well attached and robust, the snapping feature should attract and withstand plenty of action. The accompanying tongue facts are genuinely cool. Who knew that a blue whale’s tongue “weighs as much as an elephant” or that the chameleon’s “tongue is hollow”? Sitting against mostly white backgrounds, the page-dominating animal collages feel as energetic as their springing tongues. Brilliantly colored papers are cut, ripped, layered, and painted, making the critters feel three-dimensional. The few strategic background elements, such as a diminutive scuba diver alongside the blue whale or the paper wasp’s nest (incorrectly identified as a beehive) behind a sun bear present the animal’s scale. If the book has a downside, it’s that there’s not enough of it.

Snap this one up. (Novelty board book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews