Butt or face? Ador-a-butts!

Kari Lavelle

Book - 2026

Butt or Face? Volume 4: Adora-Butts is an illustrated guessing-game book that invites readers to identify animals from close-up photographs. Each page presents a detailed image of part of an animal, challenging readers to determine whether the image shows the animal's face or its rear. The following page reveals the full photograph and the correct answer. The book features a variety of animals from around the world, including the pygmy seahorse, pink fairy armadillo, and quokka, and provides brief facts about each species along with information about camouflage and other animal adaptations.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

The fourth entry in a tail-wagging game for young animal lovers. With a fresh set of artfully angled and framed photos, Lavelle again challenges viewers to guess whether they're looking at the "fetching faces" or "beguiling butts" of 13 creatures, from a pink fairy armadillo to an emperor penguin. Turning the page reveals not only the answer, with a full-body photo, but boxes of pun-laden invitations to "Face the Facts" or go "Beyond the Backside" to learn a few basics about each animal's habits and habitat. "You can't spell 'repeat' without e-a-t," she writes, for example, about the quokka's habit of chowing down on food it has just barfed up, and thanks to coral-like tubercules on its skin that help it hide from predators, the reef-dwelling pygmy seahorse is "hard tosea!" "What a re-leaf!" she notes after describing how, once a week, sloths slowly travel to the forest floor to defecate. As usual, she ends with a clever kicker--a baby wombat peeking from its mom's backward facing pouch, so that both answers are correct--on the way to closing deposits of additional data. Fundament-ally sound approach to natural history, with built-in hilarity. (author's note, sources, map)(Informational picture book. 5-7) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.