The animal book : a collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest--and most surprising--animals on earth / Steve Jenkins.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]Description: 208 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 054755799X
- 9780547557991
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 590 J52 | Available | 33111005221862 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Animals smooth and spiky, fast and slow, hop and waddle through the two hundred plus pages of the Caldecott Honor artist Steve Jenkins's most impressive nonfiction offering yet. Sections such as "Animal Senses," "Animal Extremes," and "The Story of Life" burst with fascinating facts and infographics that will have trivia buffs breathlessly asking, "Do you know a termite queen can produce up to 30,000 eggs a day?" Jenkins's color-rich cut- and torn-paper artwork is as strikingly vivid as ever. Rounding out this bountiful browsers' almanac of more than three hundred animals is a discussion of the artist's bookmaking process, an animal index, a glossary, and a bibliography. A bookshelf essential!
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207).
Animals! -- Family -- Animal senses -- Predators -- Defenses -- Animal extremes -- The story of life -- More information.
Shares facts on over three hundred animals and offers a brief overview of the history of life on Earth. Dance with a blue-footed booby, or stare down an eyelash viper. But mind your step-- in the animal world, the name of the game is survival.