About the Author

Steve Jenkins has illustrated many children"s books, including What Do You Do with a Tail Like This, a Caldecott Honor Book, and The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. He has also illustrated Wiggling Worms at Work, Life in a Coral Reef, and Almost Gone in the Let"s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Reviews

"Jenkins, this time in collaboration with his wife, has created yet another eye-opening book." -- School Library Journal (starred review)"This array of wide eyes and open mouths will definitely have viewers responding with wide eyes and open mouths of their own." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This is a striking, thoughtfully created book with intriguing facts made more memorable through dynamic art." -- Booklist (starred review)"Jenkin's cut-paper collage illustrations are, as usual, ingenious and remarkable in their clarity, their several components neatly articulating the anatomy of their subjects." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"Steve Jenkins contributes another artistically wrought, imaginatively conceived look at the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly

Steve Jenkins contributes another artistically wrought, imaginatively conceived look at the natural world. What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Jenkins and wife Robin Page, stages a guessing game. Illustrated with Jenkins's trademark cut-paper art, one spread will show animals' tails (or noses, ears, etc.) as text asks variations of the titular question; turn the page, and the whole bodies of the animals are shown as answers are supplied ("If you're a lizard, you break off your tail to get away"; "If you're a scorpion, your tail can give a nasty sting"). Four pages of illustrated endnotes deliver meaty profiles of the 30 featured creatures. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

"Jenkins, this time in collaboration with his wife, has created yet another eye-opening book." -- School Library Journal (starred review)"This array of wide eyes and open mouths will definitely have viewers responding with wide eyes and open mouths of their own." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"This is a striking, thoughtfully created book with intriguing facts made more memorable through dynamic art." -- Booklist (starred review)"Jenkin's cut-paper collage illustrations are, as usual, ingenious and remarkable in their clarity, their several components neatly articulating the anatomy of their subjects." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"Steve Jenkins contributes another artistically wrought, imaginatively conceived look at the natural world." -- Publishers Weekly