In his eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, the Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes—clusters of light-sensitive cells—appeared more than one billion years ago, and provided a big survival advantage to the first creatures that had them. Since then, animals have evolved an amazing variety of eyes, along with often surprising ways to use them.---from the publisher
32 pages 978-0547959078 Ages 6-9
Keywords: animals, eyes, seeing, sight, how things work, information, senses, nonfiction, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, 9 year old, zoology, biology, science, Science Curriculum
