Following up on Do Doodlebugs Doodle? (2018), their investigation of bugs, this mother-and-daughter authorial pair once more staff up with illustrator Shi, this time to invest about sea dwellers. Posing questions, together with the one within the title, they ask about pilot whales, sea lions, trumpet fish, sea horses, lampreys, clown fish, soccer fish, skates, hammerhead sharks, starfish, and mussels. Every query is illustrated on a web page or unfold; a web page flip reveals the reply, often a powerful “No!” The jokes are intelligent: Lamprey eels aren’t “plugged in,” however they do join by “attaching their mouths to a fish’s physique,” and so forth. Aside from the opening and shutting spreads, the format additionally reveals the distinction between the jokey query, set above a rectangle with rounded corners that incorporates a painted interpretation, and the intense reply, set on a full-bleed picture. The creatures are sometimes anthropomorphized as a part of the visible joke and proven extra naturally on the web page with the information. Some pictures embrace human youngsters; a pale-skinned baby with brown hair in a double bun and a distinct brown-haired baby with darker pores and skin seem greater than as soon as. Noting that their examples embrace mammals, fish, and invertebrates, the authors present a paragraph of additional details about every of those animals within the backmatter (the place they make clear that starfish are extra correctly referred to as sea stars).
