Butt or Face?

by Kari Lavelle

Overview

"The silly, simple premise is carried out splendidly; younger readers will be entranced by fascinating photos, bright colors, and googly eyes galore, while older readers will appreciate fast-fact boxes, clear explanations, and endless animal puns."—Booklist, STARRED Review

Can YOU tell a butt from a face? Discover fascinating facts about animals with this hilarious guessing game picture book!

Butt or Face offers kids a delightfully cheeky challenge: examine a close-up photo of an animal, and then guess whether you're looking at the top or the…um…bottom. The answer is revealed on the next page with a complete photo of the animal! Also included are factual animal details along with how these animals use camouflage or other trickery to engage with their home. Readers will discover animals like the Cuyaba dwarf frog whose backside looks like a pair of eyes, the Mary River turtle that breathes through its butt, and many more!

Butt or Face? is perfect for parents and teachers looking for:

• Books for kids ages 4-8
• Animal fact books for kids
• Animal anatomy game books
• Interactive physiology books for kids
• Humorous nonfiction books for kids

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728271194
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	07/11/2023
Series:	Butt or Face?
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	182,015
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Kari Lavelle is the author of the hilarious BUTT OR FACE? series, WE MOVE THE WORLD (HarperCollins 2021) and AN ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT, a picture book biography of James Earl Jones (Knopf 2024). She is a member of SCBWI and 12x12 and enjoys taking classes at the Writing Barn. Kari lives in Austin, Texas with her family.

Editorial Reviews

"This is definitely a book that will be looked at again and again." — Youth Services Book Review

"A gleeful game for budding naturalists." — Kirkus Reviews

"The silly, simple premise is carried out splendidly; younger readers will be entranced by fascinating photos, bright colors, and googly eyes galore, while older readers will appreciate fast-fact boxes, clear explanations, and endless animal puns." — Booklist, STARRED Review

From the Publisher

2023-05-09
Artfully cropped animal portraits challenge viewers to guess which end they’re seeing.

In what will be a crowd-pleasing and inevitably raucous guessing game, a series of close-up stock photos invite children to call out one of the titular alternatives. A page turn reveals answers and basic facts about each creature backed up by more of the latter in a closing map and table. Some of the posers, like the tail of an okapi or the nose on a proboscis monkey, are easy enough to guess—but the moist nose on a star-nosed mole really does look like an anus, and the false “eyes” on the hind ends of a Cuyaba dwarf frog and a Promethea moth caterpillar will fool many. Better yet, Lavelle saves a kicker for the finale with a glimpse of a small parasitical pearlfish peeking out of a sea cucumber’s rear so that the answer is actually face andbutt. “Animal identification can be tricky!” she concludes, noting that many of the features here function as defenses against attack: “In the animal world, sometimes your butt will save your face and your face just might save your butt!” (This book was reviewed digitally.)

A gleeful game for budding naturalists. (author’s note) (Informational picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews