Steve Jenkins
What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You?
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Story / Adventure
- Maker / Problem-Solving
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Each spread poses an urgent predator problem before revealing the structure or behavior a particular animal uses to escape. The repeated danger-and-solution rhythm makes defense adaptations feel like surprising answers rather than entries in a zoology reference.
The science inside
- Animals & Zoology
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Ecosystems
Your child will meet:
- Animals can defend themselves through behavior, body structures, chemicals, camouflage, or deception.
- A defensive adaptation is useful in a particular predator, habitat, and timing context rather than every situation.
- Predator and prey adaptations can influence one another across generations.
- A dramatic animal response is not automatically safe or physically possible for a human to imitate.
Use it this way
Parent effort: No prep
What would you do if something wanted to eat you? Walk on water? Stick out your tongue? Play dead? Animals in the wild use all kinds of methods to protect themselves from their enemies. Using dynamic and intricate cut-paper collages, Steve Jenkins explores the many fascinating and unique defense mechanisms creatures use to escape from danger.
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