Bone by Bone

Comparing Animal Skeletons

From the Series Animal by Animal

  • Interest Level: Kindergarten - Grade 4
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

What would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? You’d be a bat! What if you had no leg bones but kept your arm bones? You’d be a whale, a dolphin, or a porpoise!

This entertaining picture book will keep readers guessing as they learn about how our skeletons are like―and unlike―those of other animals.

How are you similar to animals? How are you different? These entertaining picture books from educator and veterinarian Sara Levine and illustrator T.S Spookytooth explore comparative anatomy and give readers the chance to find out how their skeletons, teeth, and eyes match up with a wide variety of animals from the past and present. Packed with surprising animal facts that will delight readers of all ages!

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Interest Level Kindergarten - Grade 4
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Picture Books, Science
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Expository Literature, Animals
Copyright 2014
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Millbrook Press ™
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2013-08-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF051030, JNF051150, JNF013110
Dewey 599.9'47
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 9.25 x 11
Lexile 580
ATOS Reading Level 3.7
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 160639
Accelerated Reader® Points 0.5
Features Awards, Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Original artwork, Reviewed, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Author: Sara Levine

Sara Levine is an author, educator, and veterinarian. Her science books for children include the Animal by Animal series, Germs Up Close, and A Peek at Beaks: Tools Birds Use. Her books have received a number of awards including AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize, Utah Beehive Book Award, Cook Prize finalist, Monarch Award master list, and Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Illustrator: T.S Spookytooth

T.S Spookytooth has been illustrating for many years. Throughout these years of brandishing a paintbrush, he has explored the diverse fields of children’s picture books; magazine and newspaper illustrations; and advertising, packaging, and illustrating for websites.

When not working on illustration commissions, he likes to find time to work on many of his own personal projects. He keeps these projects locked in a suitcase but sometimes he forgets where he left the key. An ideal day for Mr. Spookytooth is to ponder and then to draw these ponderings. Some food is fitted in along the way followed by more ponderings and the occasional readjustment of his bow tie, but ponderings are the main order of the day.

He also lives in a house with Mrs. Spookytooth and thankfully she is fond of a ponder as well . . . and is good at finding lost keys.

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Animal by Animal

How are you similar to animals? How are you different? These entertaining picture books from educator and veterinarian Sara Levine and illustrator T.S Spookytooth explore comparative anatomy and give readers the chance to find out how their skeletons, teeth, and eyes match up with a wide View available downloads →

Bone by Bone

What would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? You’d be a bat! What if you had no leg bones but kept your arm bones? You’d be a whale, a dolphin, or a porpoise! This entertaining picture book will keep readers guessing as they learn about how View available downloads →

Awards

  • Utah Beehive Award, Winner, 2016
  • NYC Reads 365 Recommended Reading List, Winner, 2015
  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2014
  • Missouri State Teacher's Association Reading Circle Selection, Winner, 2014
  • ACL Distinguished Book, Winner, 2014
  • Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices, Winner, 2014
  • The Cook Prize Finalist, Commended, 2013

Reviews

Slate

“I’ve been longing for another kind of picture book: one that appeals to young children’s wildest imagination in service of real evolutionary thinking….Bone by Bone, by veterinarian and professor Sara Levine, fills the niche to near perfection.” —Slate

Kirkus Reviews

“[The author’s] ‘what if’ questions are right on target for young learners, connecting them to the subject and extending their imaginations.” —Kirkus Reviews

School Library Journal

“The bright, stylized, color illustrations match each question, portraying cartoon children with distorted anatomy, such as a girl with a neck like a giraffe’s, or a snake with a human head….This unusual book is interactive and thought-provoking.” —School Library Journal