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Jenkins, Steve , Page, Robin

Tiny Monsters: The Strange Creatures That Live on Us, in Us, and Around Us

32 pp. | Houghton | November, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-0-358-30711-2 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Steve Jenkins. Jenkins and Page (The Frog Book, rev. 1/19) team up to tackle a subject that may make your skin crawl--while introducing you to what's crawling on your skin. Each tiny, often microscopic organism described here is boldly illustrated with cut-and-torn-paper collage and magnified as much as four hundred times its actual size. This allows the viewer to see each and every hair on the zebra jumping spider's body, or the walrus-like tusks on the cat flea. Some "tiny monsters" will be familiar, such as the bedbug or head louse. Others will seem as if they're from another planet entirely (take a look at the marine scale worm...or don't). The text accompanying each organism is brief but succinct, and additional information about each of the twenty-four creatures included is given at book's end. Perhaps appropriately, the authors provide a warning on the first page: "After meeting some of these tiny monsters, you may never look at your cereal, your pillow, or your eyelashes in quite the same way."
Reviewer: Hill Saxton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2020

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