Dan Tavis\'s humorous illustrations crank up the delight, and a child wanting to learn more will find it in the natural-history backmatter.
Pat Brisson employs a variety of verse forms in the book, and she shows how it\'s done in a back-of-book feature called "A Peek into the Poet\'s Toolkit." Common Critters is a three-tool STEAM book with delightful reading, natural history, and language skills rolled into one..
Dan Tavis\'s humorous illustrations crank up the delight, and a child wanting to learn more will find it in the natural-history backmatter