New Releases by Steve Jenkins

The fight to survive starts with a simple egg. Learn how various animals produce and protect eggs with very different parenting methods and defensive strategies. 32pp., Color Ill.

How to Swallow a Pig is a clever and whimsical nonfiction book about animal behavior disguised as a How-to /Advice book by the bestselling team of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. .

It''s time to eat! Steve Jenkins and Robin Page invite you to dine with a group of animals that have fascinating -- and often peculiar -- eating habits.

Profiles a series of animals with unusual eyes and explains how such animals use their uniquely evolved eyes to gain essential information about the biological world.

The changing demographics of students and educators in schools today suggest that much of what we do as educational leaders revolves around the complex issues related to our various cultural understandings. In this book the authors discuss the relationship between culture and conflict and provide a continuum to better understand the basis for much cultural conflict. Authors emphasize a systematic framework that can be used to guide the practitioner in resolving conflicts rooted in cultural issues – from less difficult issues such as the cultural conflicts that occur on a campus between academic cultures and athletic cultures, to the more complicated and delicate issues rooted in racial or sexual identity issues.

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

Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.

Il peut se produire beaucoup de choses en une seconde : un moucheron bat des ailes mille fois, la lumière voyage sur trois cent mille kilomètres, quatre bébés naissent et deux personnes meurent... D''autres événements se déroulent plus lentement : en une minute, en une heure, en un jour, en une semaine, en un mois, en une année... Ce sont ces étranges phénomènes que Steve Jenkins nous invite à découvrir dans ce documentaire sur le temps. (4e de couv.)

Legs, antennae, horns, beautiful shells, knobs, and other oddities--what''s not to like about beetles?

Steve, a computer technician from London, down on his luck, moves to one of the oil-rich states in the 1970’s where he discovers great, if nefarious, opportunities in the bank where he is assigned. He runs into an old school buddy, together they scheme to relieve the bank of a significant amount of money, and the caper begins.

It’s time for a bath! Find out which animals soak, lick, bake, or spray their dirt away.

How to Clean a Hippopotamus, a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature’s fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world’s most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

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.

Presents an illustrated discussion of what not to do around various dangerous animals, with warnings about petting a platypus, touching a tang fish, or pulling a python''s tail.

How big is a crocodile? What about a tiger, or the world’s largest spider? Can you imagine a tongue that is two feet long or an eye that’s bigger than your head? Sometimes facts and figures don’t tell the whole story. Sometimes you need to see things for yourself—at their actual size.

A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).

Explains how a lot of animals use their noses, ears, tails, eyes, mouths, and feet in very different ways.

Provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.

Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.

The award-winning team of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? and Move! once again create a nonfiction picture book that is amazingly beautiful, fun, and filled with all sorts of interesting facts. Here, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page investigate sibling relationships throughout the animal kingdom. In this book you will learn that anteaters are always only children and nine-banded armadillos are always born as identical quadruplets. You will also learn that falcons play-hunt in the sky and that hyena cubs fight to the death. This is the perfect book for animal lovers young and old!

Peregrine falcons learn to hunt by practicing with their sisters and brothers. Elephant sisters babysit their younger siblings. Hyena brothers often fight to the death, but wild turkey brothers stay together for life. The giant anteater is an only child, while termites may have millions of siblings! Find out more about these animal brothers and sisters -- and many others -- inside this book.

Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink—animals can be startlingly colorful. Why are they found in so many shades, tints, and hues? From the scarlet ibis to the blue-tongued skink, award-winning author/illustrator Steve Jenkins depicts a whole world of colorful animals in his signature style. Living Color explores a range of animals from old favorites like the pink flamingo to rare and fascinating creatures such as the long-wattled umbrella bird and the ringed caecilian. How do the brilliant feathers, scales,shells, and skin of these animals help them survive? Find out in this strikingly beautiful book how animals use color to warn predators, signal friends, attract a mate, or hide from their enemies.

Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you! Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. Then, flip the book over and find out about the other kind. Once again Steve Jenkins takes children’s nonfiction to a new level. Here is an amazing book filled with great information, visual facts, and lots of animal history. The illustrations are so incredibly realistic, you’ll want to pet them!

Let''s-Read-and-Find-Out about Endangered Animals Have you seen a northern hairy-nosed wombat or an eastern barred bandicoot? These animals are so rare, they might disappear forever, and they''re not alone. Read and find out about some of the animals that are almost gone. Introduce basic science concepts to young children and help satisfy their curiosity about how the world works.

Learn about how different animals move.

What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird? Or stare into the mouth of the largest meat eater ever to walk the earth? Can you imagine a millipede that is more than six feet long, or a dinosaur smaller than a chicken? In this “actual size” look at the prehistoric world, which includes two dramatic gatefolds, you’ll meet these awe-inspiring creatures, as well as many others.

Climb the tallest mountain, dive into the deepest lake, and navigate the longest river in Steve Jenkins'' stunning new book that explores the wonders of the natural world. With his striking cut paper collages, Jenkins majestically captures the grand sense of scale, perspective and awe that only mother earth can inspire.