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2003
finalists.

2003 Hackmatack

Children's Choice Book Award/Prix littéraire - le choix de jeunes

Imagine if your tongue was as long as your body, or if closing your eyes helped you to swallow! Whether their diets include plants, insects or other creatures, animals eat in some weird and fascinating ways.

Create a model of a frog's tongue and practice zapping targets. Or try drinking the way a housefly does - by sipping sugar water through a sponge! There are lots of amazing things to discover about how animals eat.

Did you know?

• baby blue whales can gain up to 90 kg (200 lb.) a day while nursing
• cows have four stomachs
• hummingbirds must eat constantly to stay alive
• crocodiles can grow up to 3000 teeth in their lifetime

Pamela Hickman is a natural-science writer and the author of several nature activity books for children. Her other books in this series include Animal Senses and Animals in Motion. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.

Pat Stephens is an illutrator who lives in Flesherton, Ontario. Her previous books include Animal Senses, Animal Defenses and Animals in Motion.

Suggested Activities

• Make a model of the food web in the marsh.
• Make a frog tongue model and see how good your aim is.
• See book for more activity ideas like, how a gizzard works.