What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You?

What would you do if something wanted to eat you? Walk on water? Stick out your tongue? Play dead? Animals in the wild use all kinds of methods to protect themselves from their enemies. Using dynamic and intricate cut-paper collages, Steve Jenkins explores the many fascinating and unique defense mechanisms creatures use to escape from danger.

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The cut paper collage illustrations create images of animals defending themselves from predators that will be pleasing to the eyes for both adults and children! The catchy title will hook children and the juxtaposition of simple but interesting facts with vivid, illustrative images will keep them reading. Definitely a must-read for children interested in animals and their behavior!

I gave this book 5 stars for the illustrations and easy reading ability for students. It's a picture book way to teach the food chain in a broader sense. It also shows students how animals defend themselves from predators. Amazing book!

This nonfiction book is about how animals protect themselves from enemies before they try to eat them. This book simply explains how animals survive by confusing or hiding from the dangerous animals. I loved that the book includes great examples for the readers to see. Some information are interesting and some are shocking. I really loved the title so much.

Setting aside the humorous title, this is a great piece of children's nonfiction that anyone could enjoy and would be especially entertaining to children. Nicely done.

I think that the title it catchy. It is a great non fiction book for all ages really. It tough me things that I had no idea about. The cut paper collage illustrations create images of animals defending themselves from predators that will be pleasing to the eyes for both adults and children! It tells about how various animals, bugs, reptiles, and fish escape their predators. It tells how they protect themselves from being eaten.

"What Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You" by Steve Jenkins is beautifully illustrated book about the various ways different animals protect themselves from predators. This is a great book to read aloud and discuss the food chain and predator/prey relationships to young children. The unique defense mechanisms the animals use will spark discussion and awe in most of the students.