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STELLAR STORIES: Beastly Puzzles : a brain-boggling animal guessing game

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By: Rachel Poliquin
Toronto, On : Kids can press, 2019. Informational.

If you enjoy fun engaging informational books this is the book for you. Look at some simple items from around your house and then try and guess what animal would use something like a hammer. For example, what animal would use a file, glue, oil, silver thread, 4 sewing pins, a thimble and one foot?  A garden snail. If you lift the flap you can learn all kinds of interesting facts about this common garden animal. Did you know that snail slime is  like glue, it helps the snail stick so it can hang upside down? This same slime also works like oil and helps it to slide where it needs to go.

This book is full of stellar animal facts that are presented in an appealing way with its puzzle game approach to learning. The animal clues are illustrated with classic illustrations that don't give away any answers, so with some guessing and discussion you could try to predict what is hidden behind the flap or just turn the page to reveal the answer. Snatch up a copy of this book and begin the brain-boggling guessing game.




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