I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls

A patterned, poetic narrative examines animal skulls as evidence of the creatures that once lived. Each skull’s arches, ridges, teeth, cracks, and openings point toward a particular feature or behavior. Readers are invited to study clues before a page turn reveals the living animal and shows how it used that physical trait. One example focuses on eye sockets and an animal that hunted hares in a winter forest. The book concludes by turning to a human skull and the human capacity to think and calculate paths of comets and stars.