Speediest!: 19 Very Fast Animals

by Steve Jenkins, Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)

Overview

Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins is back with more Extreme Animals, perfect for young readers looking for accessible nonfiction chock full of incredible art. Speediest! will focus on the fastest members of the animal kingdom. 

Through illustrations, infographics, facts, and figures, readers will see how big each animal is compared to humans, where it lives on the globe, and just how quickly it can move! 

With his signature art style, Steve Jenkins' Extreme Animals reader series explores nature's truly superlative animals. These readers are fact-packed and span the globe, detailing the astounding abilities of every shape, size, and species. Each installment focuses on amazing and unusual animals, making these nonfiction readers accessible, informative, and fascinating.   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781328544100
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/22/2018
Series:	Steve Jenkins's Extreme Animals Series
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	910,755
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 9 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.

Table of Contents

Move!: Introduction 4

Fastest runner: cheetah 6

Who needs to fly?: ostrich 8

Small but speedy: Australian tiger beetle 9

A quick escape: brown hare 10

Fleet feet: greater roadrunner 12

Running on water: green basilisk lizard 14

Fast fish: sailfish 16

Ten-armed devil: Humboldt squid 18

Life in the sky: spine-tailed swift 20

Airbornel: flying fish 21

Fastest of all: peregrine falcon 22

Flying dragon: common green darner dragonfly 24

The fastest flier: Mexican free-tailed bat 25

Deadly slither: black mamba 26

Leaps and bounds: red kangaroo 28

Burrowing beast: aardvark 30

Swinger: gibbon 32

Knockout punch: mantis shrimp 34

Snap!: Panamanian termite 35

Speed comparison 36

Glossary 38

Bibliography 39

Editorial Reviews

"A riveting series for animal lovers and a good choice for science shelves."—School Library Journal —

From the Publisher

01/01/2018
Gr 1–3—Jenkins offers an informative and lively journey into the world of stinky and speedy animals for primary grade students. Smart layout design in both volumes will make for a seamless reading experience for a variety of learners—fact-filled short paragraphs, maps, size comparison diagrams, and accurate illustrations will please browsers and researchers alike. In Stinkiest!, readers will learn that the honey badger uses a stink bomb if threatened and even birds are in on the smelly action—the hoatzin farts a lot and the female green wood hoopoe can spray a foul oil to deter predators. Speediest! is a solid mix of familiar and unexpected creatures: cheetahs and brown hares but also mantis shrimps and aardvarks. Both volumes are graced with Jenkins's signature torn- and cut-paper collage, which showcase a variety of bold colors and textures. Overall, the two titles have a playful and inviting tone that will be appreciated by kids. However, the majority of the titles cited in each book's bibliography are quite old with most published in the early 2000s but a few in the 1980s and 90s. VERDICT A riveting series for animal lovers and a good choice for science shelves.—Kathia Ibacache, Simi Valley Public Library, CA

School Library Journal