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A picture book by the creator of Ten Birds features a clever menagerie of animals who use their unique eyesight/vision to solve the mystery of the haughty queen's missing shadow that disappeared after a power outage at the Queen's Ball. Each creature explains their version of the scene of the crime based on their own unique eyesight. In sidebars to the story, facts about how the eyesight of each animal works are presented. The book concludes with more information on the animals-- mantis shrimp, chameleon, shark, pit viper, goat, dragonfly, colossal squid, pigeon, and sea urchin. A section on how human vision works is also included. Lexile 1050, IL 2-6. | |