A snake eats an increasingly unlikely amount and increasingly unlikely forms of prey. Just weird enough to work.

And in addition to introducing carnivorism and different types of animals to little ones, it can be a counting book if you want. ( )

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This book was illustrated by Eric Carle, an illustrator known for his collage style art. The Scholastic Readability Level is PreK-1st grade. The story tells about a python that eats everything in sight greedily. Eventually his greed gets the best of him when he coughed up every animal after feeling sick. Then, he decided to eat what he thought was another animal. It was actually his own tail and he swallowed himself. The moral of this story is that it never pays to be greedy. I would use the story for its moral and the focus on the sequence of animals. I could have the students place the animals in the order that they appeared in the story at the end. ( )