Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles

A Curious Counting Book

Contributors

By Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter

By Robin Page

Formats and Prices

Price

$18.99

Price

$24.99 CAD

Format

Hardcover

Format:

Hardcover $18.99 $24.99 CAD

This latest book by the Caldecott Honor-winning team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page highlights the numerous strange and fascinating features and appendages from teeth to toes to tongues of all kinds of animals.

Did you know…
a praying mantis only has one ear?
a squid has three hearts?
a giant African land snail can have up to eighteen thousand teeth?

Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles celebrates and highlights the numerous unusual and strangely fascinating features and appendages of all kinds of animals, from horns to toes and stomachs to hearts. From the two-tongued loris to a scallop’s 200 eyes, readers will find joy in numbers with this latest book by these two masters of nonfiction. While not a counting book in the traditional sense, readers will enjoy learning all kinds of fun facts from the animal world as they look for fingers and fins!

On Sale
Jul 22, 2025
Page Count
40 pages
ISBN-13
9780316456692

Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter

About the Author

In just two short years, Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter have cemented a place for themselves among the worlds most well-known and successful animal activists, accumulating hundreds of thousands of followers from all over the world. In 2014, Steve and Derek founded the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary in Campbellville, Ontario, where they continue to rescue and rehabilitate abandoned and abused farmed animals.

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Robin Page

About the Author

Robin Page has written and illustrated several picture books including many with her husband, Steve Jenkins. These include the Caldecott Honor winner What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, Creature Features, and The Shark Book. She is also the solo creator of A Chicken Followed Me Home! and Seeds Move!, and The Beak Book. Robin works out of her studio in Boulder, Colorado.

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