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How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Page
Creator: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 61515
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 10 x 0.5
ISBN: 061896634X
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.53
EAN: 9780618966349
ASIN: 061896634X
Publication Date: October 6, 2008
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Condition: Dust Jacket is great. Binding is tight. FIRST EDITION. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Product Description
Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quickBRreflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do suchBRdiverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structureBRto What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture bookBRintroduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.
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Insights into how very different creatures harbor similar habits November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Steve Jenkins and Robin Page's HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU CATCH A FLY? provides a fine picture book story of fast creatures and how different creatures can succeed at capturing the same prey. Drawings of birds and animals like offer insights into how very different creatures harbor similar habits.br /
Great nonfiction choice for young animal lovers. October 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a fan of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page because I think they do an amazing job of making nonfiction interesting and engaging and presenting fun and interesting facts. I also think they make an effort to keep their content fresh. I always know that when I pick up one of their books that I'm going to learn lots of new information about animals.br /br /Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed with their newest book, How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?.br /br /This book presents a number of challenges animals face along with their unique methods for solving the problem. For example, one challenge is digging holes. Readers are presented with the question, "How many ways can you dig a hole?" When you turn the page, there is a two-page spread showing how different animals dig holes. There is an aardvark making burrows with his front legs and claws, a Mexican burrowing toad digging into mud with its feet, a red rock urchin wearing away rock or coral with its teeth, and more.br /br /Other challenges presented in the book include catching flies, snaring fish, hatching eggs, using leaves, and eating clams. At the end of the book, readers can learn even more about each animal featured.br /br /Accompanying the fact-filled text are Jenkins' customary colorful paper collage illustrations. I never fail to be amazed at how he captures so many details and facial expressions with the collages.br /br /br /This is a book that I highly recommend to children who are interested in animals, and it would make an excellent cross-curricular resource for science, geography, social studies, and language arts lessons. It may also inspire young readers to come up with creative ways of solving their own problems after seeing how the animals in book do it.
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