Little Skink's Tail by Janet Halfmann , Laurie Allen Klein Search Amazon for other books by or about Janet Halfmann. Rating: Reviewed by: John L. Hoh, Jr.

Little Skink is a lizard. One day Little Skink suns on a rock, then goes to a log for breakfast. Yummy ants!

But tragedy almost befalls Little Skink. A crow almost had Little Skink for breakfast! Fortunately the tail can detach-and while the crow followed the wiggle-waggle tail, Little Skink found refuge.

But now Little Skink had no tail. As she met other forest animals in the coming days, she wondered how she would look with their tails. The illustrations showing these possible combinations are very clever! Can you imagine a lizard with the tail of a rabbit, squirrel, deer, turtle, skunk, or porcupine? Of course Little Skink found a reason each tail would not be right.

So does Little Skink get a new tail? Early readers will enjoy finding this out. Smaller children will enjoy the colorful illustrations as the book is read to them-and most small children love animals anyway.

The book does have exercises for children in the back. One as a grid to locate the hoof prints of the animals Little Skink dreams of sharing tails with. The other is a matching exercise where the child matches the tail with its description.