This touch-and-feel companion to Van Fleet’s bestsellingTails (2003) is interactive even before page one, with apull-tab cover in which animals move letters into place to spellout the title. The book is stuffed with myriad textures, detailedwatercolor illustrations, and playful rhymes (“Bite mouth,/Shoutmouth,/ Slobber mouth,/ Slurp!/ Nibble mouth,/ Chew mouth,/ Rudemouths... BURP!”); a hippo’s mouth opens wide during said burp—justone of a couple of kid-pleasing gross-out moments. All the animalsfrom axolotl to tamandua, are labeled on the final spread, after afold-out surprise ending. It’s a buoyant celebration of the animalkingdom’s diversity. Ages 2-up.

 From the #1 New York Times bestselling creator Matt VanFleet comes a companion to the million plus copy bestseller, Tailsthat will dazzle and delight! Heads – wooly, bump and hairy – neverhas such a collection of animal heads been so much fun!

 Matthew Van Fleet is the creator of the #1New York Times bestsellers Tails and Dog, themillion-copy-selling Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings. He lives withhis family in New York state.