And they BITE! No one told me that. But when my youngest was a toddler, he was horribly bitten by one trapped in my mom's house. The chunk of flesh gone from his hand was alarming!

Why 160 words? A picturebook can be up to 300, even 400. But after that they're considered "long."

https://medium.com/writing-cooperative/1-1-3-the-equation-of-picture-book-writing-ee7904749eff