This appealingly icky poetry collection presents animals that suck-quite literally! From the mosquito to the elephant to the lamprey, discover how and why these animals sip, slurp, and suck.

Yuck, you suck -- The goods on the mosquito -- Doggy's flea dilemma -- Stingray: the ocean's vacuum -- Butterfly puddle party (a concrete poem) -- Ramonas don't (actually) suck -- Jellyfish locomotion -- Pigeon's evolutionary beak -- Lampreys: before and after the big suck -- Ode to the erebid moth -- Honeybee (a haiku) -- Vampire bat's bad reputation -- Elephant's trunk -- Bloodsucking leech both ways -- Yuck, you suck redux.