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Steve Jenkins
From Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes a fascinating, comprehensive, and in-depth look at our world as seen through numbers, facts, and stunning infographics.
With his signature style, Steve Jenkins…
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Steve Jenkins, Robin Page
Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page's brilliantly illustrated exploration of the very unique nature of frogs. Now available in paperback.
Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book and…
April Pulley Sayre
"Spend a day in the life of a vulture and learn how they fly, stay clean, keep up their scavenger diet, and so much more in this nonfiction picture book"--
Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the…
Fascinating "Why" questions about animals, and plenty of new ones, take centre stage in the latest book by Caldecott Honor-winning duo Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
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From Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes a series of animals with unusual eyes in this eye-catching picture book!
In his eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, Jenkins explains how…
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What does it take to be "top dog" In this illustrated exploration of the animal kingdom, Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins introduces readers to some of the most powerful predators…
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Paul Jenkins, Marvel Various
The villians-turned heroes team of the Thunderbolts in one of their most tumultous eras - the Skrull conquest of Earth in Secret Invasion!
The Skrulls' Secret Invasion rocks the Thunderbolts…
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Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes.
Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people–they need homes…
A title that explores animal characteristics and behaviours as well as the role of cats and dogs in human history.
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Simplified Chinese edition of What do you do with a tail like this? A 2004 Caldecott Honor Book. It shows the unique ability each animal has with a special part…
Take a trip through history and discover apex predators both past and present, from the earliestsea creatures to the modern African lion and giant freshwater ray, which can grow to…
Dive into a colorful deep-sea world and see how creatures move, drift, jet, and even fly in this board book by Caldecott Honor-winning artist Steve Jenkins. Interactive lift-the-flaps, bold text…
From Caldecott Honoree Jenkins comes a new series that explores nature’s truly superlative animals and their astounding abilities. Here he introduces some of the slyest animals on the planet. Full…
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins is back with more Extreme Animals, perfect for young readers looking for accessible nonfiction chock full of incredible art. Stinkiest! will focus on the smelliest…
The simplest eyes - clusters of light-sensitive cells - appeared more than one billion years ago, and provided a big survival advantage to the first creatures that had them. This…
It’s clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python’s tail, or bother a black widow spider. But do you know how dangerous it can be to pet…
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…
Paper collages illustrate the descriptions of some of the most remarkable places on earth, including the hottest, coldest, windiest, snowiest, highest, and deepest.
This is a picture book about some of the biggest and smallest, fastest and slowest, strongest and longest record holders in the animal world.
Jenkins has created a striking tour-de-force in this picture book that follows a climber on his way up the imposing face of Mount Everest. Illustrations.
Chomp into this board book about dinosaurs by Caldecott Honor-winning artist Steve Jenkins. Vibrant cut-paper collage art paired with bold action verbs, interactive lift-the-flaps, and nonfiction facts make this a…
Millions of plants and animals live on Earth, but why do some species survive while others go extinct? A young readers guide to evolution with full-colour cut-paper illustrations.
As fascinating and informative as ever, this sequel to Jenkins’ equally impressive Actual Size presents prehistoric creatures to lifesize proportions. It’s hard to imagine a six foot long millipede or…
Features animals smooth and spiky, fast and slow, that hop and waddle. In this title, sections such as Animal Senses, Animal Extremes, and The Story of Life burst with facts…
The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on earth is a beetle. From the goliath beetle that weighs one fourth of a pound to the…
Fascinating science meets gorgeous collage art in Jenkins’s book about measuring creatures big and small. An unusual, unusually effective tool for connecting children to nature’s astonishing variety.– Booklist, starred review…
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins is back with more Extreme Animals, perfect for young readers looking for accessible nonfiction chock full of incredible art. Speediest! will focus on the fastest…
Taking readers beyond the clock, this fascinating book, filled with facts, figures, and infographs, explores what happens around the world in just twenty-four hours.
From the beloved Caldecott Honor-winning author of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? comes another stunning, informative reader in the By the Numbers series. In this installment…
What happens around in the world in twenty-four hours? Award-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins shares tons of amazing facts, figures, and stunning infographs in this early reader perfect for curious kids.
An amazing look at Earth’s natural disasters as seen through numbers, facts, and stunning infographics from Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins!
The award-winning team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page introduce young readers to some of the stealthiest, most astonishingly camouflaged animals in the natural world and ask them to seek…
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins introduces By the Numbers infographic readers, chock full of incredible infographs and stunning, full color cut-paper illustrations. Dinosaurs will explore the world of these extinct…
By the Numbers infographic readers, accessible nonfiction packed with full-color cut-paper illustrations from Caldecott honor-winning Steve Jenkins. Solar Systems focuses on ever-astonishing outer space.
From master of nonfiction Steve Jenkins comes the By the Numbers series–accessible readers packed with fascinating infographics and full-color cut-paper art. Insects focuses on the creepy-crawly world of bugs.
From master of nonfiction Steve Jenkins comes the By the Numbers series-accessible readers packed with fascinating infographics and full-colour cut-paper art. Insects focuses on the creepy-crawly world of bugs.
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins introduces By the Numbers infographic readers chock full of incredible infographs and stunning, full-color cut-paper illustrations. Earth will focus on the fascinating ins-and-outs of earth…
Kids come face to face with some head-to-toe boney comparisons, many of them shown at actual size. Includes three large gatefold spreads that reveal the hard (yet enjoyable) truths about…
This nonfiction picture book explores the concept of time as a series of events in the natural world that take place in given units of time. Steve Jenkins’s stunning collage…
What do a cape buffalo, a king cobra, and a puffer fish have in common? They’re all deadly! This installment in Extreme Animals showcases the most lethal members of the…
Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins introduces By the Numbers infographic readers, chock full of incredible info-graphs and stunning, full colour cut-paper illustrations. Dinosaurs will explore the world of these extinct…
By the Numbers infographic readers, accessible nonfiction packed with full-colour cut-paper illustrations from Caldecott honor-winning Steve Jenkins. Solar Systems focuses on ever-astonishing outer space.
What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird or the world’s largest meat-eater? In this actual size look at the prehistoric world, which includes two dramatic…
Little ones will love to learn their first animal words in this sturdy and padded lift-the-flap board book by Caldecott Honor winning artist Steve Jenkins.
Thousands of animal species have vanished in the last two centuries, and many others are almost gone. Youngsters can find out about these animals as they are introduced to basic…
Half the earth’s surface is covered by water more than a mile deep, but most of this watery world is a mystery to us. More people have stood on the…
