Steve Jenkins

Did you know you share your home with monsters?! In this book explore the menagerie of tiny and unusual creatures--arthropods (insects, mites, and spiders)--found in our lawns and gardens, our food, our beds, our clothes, and even our eyelashes. Some of these monsters are so tiny that they were barely recognized, even by scientists, until the invention of the electron microscope. Although they may seem like aliens from another planet, these miniscule...

How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world collectively weigh? How far can animals travel? Steve Jenkins answers these questions and many more with numbers, images, innovation, and authoritative science, and Jenkins layers his signature cut-paper illustrations alongside computer graphics and a text that is teeming with fresh and accurate zoological information ready for readers to easily digest.

"This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year....

Illustrates the concept of size by comparing different animals, from the smallest visible animals to the largest.

Learn what it's like to come face-to-face with some of the dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth through these "actual-size" illustrations.

Nonfiction picture book explores the form, color, pattern, and nature of frogs. "Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, color, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal. Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features--what's...

"Which came first? The EGG, of course! In this book, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page take a look at the curious world of animal eggs. Eggs are laid one at a time or by the millions, and they come in a fantastic variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. From a mother that carries her eggs piggyback to a father that holds them in his mouth, explore the many ways animals lay and protect their eggs. And what goes on inside an egg? See how an animal develops...

A guide to human and animal skeletons provides informative comparisons while sharing such facts as the number of bones in the human body and the ways that skeletal structures work.

"Explore some of the fascinating things that animals do on their first day" -- Cover.

Who Am I? gives reader clues so they can guess which animal will be revealed in a beautiful, full-spread illustration when they turn the page. Playful nouns, adjectives, and verbs describe the characteristics and movements of each animal.