Products

• Earth Science
• Life Science
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Steve Jenkins structures the book as one continuous descent from the sunlit ocean surface to the seafloor, with each page revealing a stranger animal and a deeper zone. The scale-driven collage journey makes ocean depth and deep-sea adaptations feel like discoveries along a voyage rather than entries in a reference book.

• General / Multiple Sciences
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: A sick baby dragon turns Zoey's first magical-animal adventure into a diagnosis problem that she can solve only by observing, recording, researching, and testing ideas. Her handwritten science journal makes the investigation visible while the fantasy creature keeps the process inside the story.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Lyrical / Visual Picture Book

Why it works: Rhythmic language follows one brown bear month by month as she searches for food, prepares for hibernation, and gives birth in her den. The seasonal arc and collage illustrations carry bear behavior and habitat science through a read-aloud journey.

• Life Science
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: The book treats the egg as a design puzzle, moving among animals that hide, carry, abandon, disguise, or defend eggs in different ways. Its visual comparisons turn reproduction and parental behavior into a sequence of surprising solutions rather than a chapter of definitions.