100 Animals Board Book: Lift-the-Flap

by Steve Jenkins, Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)

Overview

Little ones will love to learn their first animal words in this sturdy and padded lift-the-flap board book by Caldecott Honor–winning artist Steve Jenkins. 

This padded word book showcases bright art to offer very young readers an interactive introduction to learning their first animal words. From the teal and green butterfly fish that lives under the sea to the brilliant blue macaw flying high in the sky, lift-the-flaps on each sturdy board page reveal how animals move, behave, survive, and thrive in their natural habitats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358105459
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/23/2021
Pages:	14
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Steve Jenkins wrote and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor Book What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? His books have been called stunning, eye-popping, inventive, gorgeous, masterful, extraordinary, playful, irresistible, compelling, engaging, accessible, glorious, and informative.

Steve Jenkins wrote and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor Book What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? His books have been called stunning, eye-popping, inventive, gorgeous, masterful, extraordinary, playful, irresistible, compelling, engaging, accessible, glorious, and informative.

Editorial Reviews

2021-05-05
A visual animal encyclopedia.

Caldecott honoree Jenkins lends his characteristic, detailed cut-paper illustrations to this lift-the-flap board book. Divided by climate (“arctic animals,” for instance), type (“airborne animals”), or habitat (“underground animals”), this picture-based guide presents the named animals in a series of simple grids. Each double-page spread features two flaps that, when opened, reveal more action than the surrounding illustrations. The flaps do a wonderful job of conveying motion, serving almost as before and after images. The trapdoor spider, for example, crawls out from belowground, and the penguin goes on a belly slide into the water. Jenkins plunges deeper into lesser-knowns of the animal kingdom than readers might typically find in a board book, a bonus for fans. There’s an oarfish, a tomato frog, and a darkling beetle, to name a few. As always, Jenkins’ illustrations invite readers to linger and look. The simple bee (a honeybee) looks as fuzzy as the real deal; the camel is furry, squinting with its signature suspicious eyes. Adult readers will get a chuckle out of some of the “indoor animals”: a moth, a termite, a cockroach, and a cricket, all of which might take some explaining to toddlers. Overall, this one will leave readers wishing for more of Jenkins’ rich illustrations, but it does succeed as a picture encyclopedia.

Beautiful illustrations with finesse of color and detail make this worth visiting again and again. (Novelty board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews