Steve Jenkins

Stephen Wilkins Jenkins (March 31, 1952 December 26, 2021)

Biography Jenkins was born March 31, 1952, in Hickory, North Carolina, to Alvin and Margaret Jenkins.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books included the following books in their lists of the best books of the year: How to Swallow a Pig (2015) and Animals by the Numbers (2016). The Horn Book Magazine has included the following books in their lists of the best children's nonfiction books of the year: The Top of the World (1999), Life on Earth (2002), Invisible Allies (2005), and The Animal Book (2013).

Selected works

As author and illustrator Duck's Breath and Mouse Pie: A Collection of Animal Superstitions (Ticknor & Fields, 1994) Animals in Flight What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships, illustrated by Robin Page (Clarion Books, 2010)

As illustrator only One Nighttime Sea, written by Deborah Lee Rose (Scholastic, 2003) Vulture View, illustrated by April Pulley Sayre (Henry Holt & Company, 2007) Pug and Other Animal Poems, written by Valerie Worth (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep, written by April Pulley Sayre (Henry Holt & Co., 2016)