This clever picture book introduces the concept of animal characteristics by highlighting how there can be both differences and similarities within a group. For example, the zebra gallops, the bumblebee flies, the lemur leaps and the tiger prowls — “But look closer now … We all have STRIPES!”
Readers will be surprised to find that a group of four seemingly different animals all have one trait in common — whiskers, horns, shells and the like — for a total of thirteen traits in all.
Observant children will notice that one of the animals from each group also appears on the following spread with three new animals that have a different characteristic in common.
