The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Jenkins, Steve , Page, Robin

How to Swallow a Pig

32 pp. | Houghton | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-544-31365-1 $17.99

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Jenkins. The authors impart considerable information about certain behaviors of eighteen animals via numbered instructions for readers to duplicate, say, a python swallowing a pig. While this conceit is maintained throughout ("you'll have to do a few things that you're probably not used to"), the steps are accurate and the jaunty language catchy; Jenkins's collages are striking as always. An afterword gives additional facts. Bib.

Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian