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K-3
Illustrated by
Brian Biggs.
"If the cat laid an egg... / it would be a hen." Five animal classifications are similarly indirectly introduced, but when the author gets to fish, the illustrator refuses to draw a blobfish. The humorous back-and-forth between Segal-Walters and Biggs throughout this meta offering should entertain kids, though the inclusion of scientific information feels forced. The final page provides a general fact about each class.