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“Numbers help us understand our world.“

Students dive into the animal kingdom using Animals by the Numbers. Through Jenkins' captivating cut-paper illustrations, students will learn how numbers play a vital role in understanding the animal world. The lesson encourages students to ask their questions about animals and use infographics to present their findings. By the end of the lesson, students will gain a deeper appreciation for zoology.

Animals by the Numbers by Steve Jenkins (2016) is a nonfiction book that gives interesting facts and details about different kinds of animals. It includes facts and figures presented with graphs, symbols, and illustrations. It includes comparisons such as height, weight, and speed. It also gives fun and random facts such as interesting sounds that animals can make!

In Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics (2016), Steve Jenkins uses engaging infographics to convey fascinating zoological facts about the animal kingdom. The book answers intriguing questions about the number of species worldwide. Jenkins combines his signature cut-paper illustrations with computer graphics, creating visually stunning representations of data that make complex information accessible and enjoyable for readers.

This is a really good book to look at facts of certain animal species. This would be a good pick for middle to upper elementary to learn more about animals and insects!

“It is estimated that all the insects on earth weigh almost 300 times as much as all the humans.“

“You should never put anything from the forest in your mouth unless an adult can identify what it is, as some plants can be poisonous.”

The book's engaging infographics help students explore interesting facts about various species, such as their sizes, speeds, and travel distances. By the end of the lesson, students will gain a deeper appreciation for zoological data.

The book answers intriguing questions about the number of species worldwide, the collective weight of insects, and how far various animals can travel.

this book shows clear size relationships between animals as well as their number configurations. And the information is presented very clearly and directly so it is easy for children to understand

I think I would use his book in my classroom, because it makes many comparisons of different kinds between different animals. It also helps students learn how to use numbers and how they are relevant to each other.

Bees kill 20 times as many people as sharks.

“...we do know that all mammals and most reptiles sleep, and possibly dream.” it‘s cool to think that animals dream too!

the pictures and other data examples hypes well with the written aspect of the story. It is an excellent book for science and math.

This book discussed everything from the number of species to what those species/animals typically weight and everything in between. It includes interesting facts, graphs, and colorful pages.

So far, well over a million species have been named. Thousands of new species are discovered each year, and there are probably millions more yet to be found.

This book would a be perfect fit in an early childhood room. If you had to read this book to a class, you could show the infographic that goes with the fact to let the children truly imagine the depth of information being presented.

This book is a very great visual for people to conceptualize animals in the world. Many of the facts in this book are incredibly interesting and can be visualized by the infographics presented. Anyone could enjoy this book because of the aesthetic colors and the informative facts.

“The Australian tiger beetle moves at a blistering pace of about 120 body lengths per second”

I enjoyed the info graphic that goes along with the facts.

I love these kinds of books. This book was really interesting to learn more about the life and facts of the animals around us.

“So far, well over a million species of animals have been named. Thousands of new species are discovered every year, and there are probably millions more yet to be found.“

The graphs, tables, and pictures helped me relate the animals to each other. They also helped me understand actual facts about the animals as well.

I enjoyed this book. It has a lot of pictures and diagrams to help the reader compare the animal to others. It also gives the reader something to follow along with the numbers that it includes with the pictures.

A snow leopard can jump 50 feet (15 meters) farther than any other land animal.

I liked the different graphs and colors. It helped me understand the facts better. I liked how the pictures of the animals were in different places on each page.

I liked this book because it contains numbers to help the reader understand comparisons and things like how fast animals are, how big they are, and how loud they are. It gives facts and figures and the animals are presented visually as graphs, symbols, and illustrations. This is great for visual learners like me.

“...all the insects on earth weigh almost 3 times as much as all the humans“

my favorite page was the one where they compared biomasses of creatures by circle size.

I liked this book a lot. I feel like this would be a great addition to a classroom because the structure of the book is so different. there are many ways of learning and this would be a great change of structure for children who learn by numbers

Animals by the Numbers would be a great story for when we discuss animal facts and nature. The students would really enjoy this book and it‘s illustrations.

Animals by the Numbers was written by Steve Jenkins in 2016. This nonfiction story tells about many different animals and unique facts about them. The children can definitely learn a lot from this story and I really enjoyed the photos as well!

I like how this book incorporates math, science, and history in one book!

A book all about numbers and how important they are to animals. Without numbers, we wouldn‘t have the ability to understand the things animals can do. This book is filled with straight up facts about all animals and illustrations that help us understand the facts. Genre: Nonfiction; Published: 2016; Illustrator: Steve Jenkins

“It is estimated that all the insects on earth weigh almost 300 times as much as all the humans. There may be more than 15 tons of insects for every person on earth.”

This would be a really interesting and fun book to read to a classroom. It‘s easy to understand and has so many interesting facts about different animals and insects.

Genre: nonfiction
I found a lot of the facts in this book to be super interesting and surprising. I love how it gives comparisons to sizes, weights, lengths, etc., which makes it easier to understand.

It‘s difficult to tell if a worm or other simple animal is sleeping but we do know that all mammals and most reptiles sleep, and possibly dream

i like all the graphs and pie charts

this book gives a lot of facts and has a lot of illustrations that could be interesting for children. The labels and captions are really organized

Loads of really interesting graphs and charts about animals. So well done it gets kids really thinking about information and how to use information. (Ex. What animal jumps the farthest distance vs. which animal jumps the most body lengths) My 7 and 12yo were rapt the whole way through. I need this for my home library.