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C'est l'heure de manger: Pour tout savoir sur les animaux et leur nourriture
Sais-tu que certains animaux se nourrissent de sang, de pierres, ou de dchets Que d'autres transportent la nourriture dans leurs abajoues, ou prfrent utiliser leur peau gluante comme garde-manger Tu ne le crois pas C'est pourtant vrai ! Avec ce livre, dcouvre les manires surprenantes qu'ont les animaux de rcolter, conserver et manger les aliments. Tu en sauras plus sur chacun d'eux grce aux informations situes en fin d'ouvrage. Et toi, quelle est ta nourriture prfre
24 pages, Hardcover
First published March 28, 2011
About the author
Steve Jenkins
138 books246 followersSteve was born in 1952 in Hickory, North Carolina. His father, who would become a physics professor and astronomer (and recently his co-author on a book about the Solar System), was in the military and, later, working on science degrees at several different universities. We moved often. Steve lived in North Carolina, Panama, Virginia, Kansas, and Colorado. Wherever he lived, he kept a menagerie of lizards, turtles, spiders, and other animals, collected rocks and fossils, and blew things up in his small chemistry lab.
Because he moved often, Steve didn't have a large group of friends, and he spent a lot of time with books. His parents read to him until he could read himself, and he became an obsessive reader.
His interest in science led me to believe that I'd be a scientist himself. At the last minute, he chose instead to go to art school in North Carolina, where he studied graphic design. After graduation he moved to New York City, where he worked in advertising and design, first in large firms and then with his wife, Robin Page, in their own small graphic design firm. Robin, also an author and illustrator, is his frequent collaborator — they've made sixteen children's books together.
Their daughter Page was born in 1986 and our son, Alec, two years later. They began reading to them when they were just a few months old, and Steve became interested in making children's books himself. My wife and I read to our two older children almost every night until hisdaughter was 12 or 13, long after they were reading on their own. It was, in many ways, the best part of the day.
In 1994 they moved to from New York City to Boulder, Colorado, where they work in a studio attached to their house, which was built in the 1880s and often functions as if it were still the 19th century.
Their youngest son, Jamie, was born in 1998. The questions his children asked over the years have been the inspiration for many of their books.
Librarian's Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
Because he moved often, Steve didn't have a large group of friends, and he spent a lot of time with books. His parents read to him until he could read himself, and he became an obsessive reader.
His interest in science led me to believe that I'd be a scientist himself. At the last minute, he chose instead to go to art school in North Carolina, where he studied graphic design. After graduation he moved to New York City, where he worked in advertising and design, first in large firms and then with his wife, Robin Page, in their own small graphic design firm. Robin, also an author and illustrator, is his frequent collaborator — they've made sixteen children's books together.
Their daughter Page was born in 1986 and our son, Alec, two years later. They began reading to them when they were just a few months old, and Steve became interested in making children's books himself. My wife and I read to our two older children almost every night until hisdaughter was 12 or 13, long after they were reading on their own. It was, in many ways, the best part of the day.
In 1994 they moved to from New York City to Boulder, Colorado, where they work in a studio attached to their house, which was built in the 1880s and often functions as if it were still the 19th century.
Their youngest son, Jamie, was born in 1998. The questions his children asked over the years have been the inspiration for many of their books.
Librarian's Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
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December 20, 2025
At the time of the publication of this title Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, husband and wife, had collaborated on nine titles. This title focus on weird things or weird ways various animals eat. For example ostriches swallow rocks to grind up the the leaves and twigs they eat because they have no teeth. A blue whale baby can gain up to 200 pounds in 24 hours from its mother’s milk. Title if full of fascinating facts about animals and eating.
June 30, 2020
Workmanlike and insufficient. Even the youngest children deserve more than this simple list... no patterns of animal families or geographical regions, no bibliography, nothing to help a learner master the material or be inspired to find something more.
I especially don't like the ostrich page that implies that "This bird" and only this bird has no teeth and eats rocks to store in a "chamber." Why not use the word gizzard right there? It's an awesome word and very much worth learning.
I especially don't like the ostrich page that implies that "This bird" and only this bird has no teeth and eats rocks to store in a "chamber." Why not use the word gizzard right there? It's an awesome word and very much worth learning.
June 30, 2012
I picked this up for my son as I thought it might be a simpler nonfiction Steve Jenkins book that he could listen to now. I had previously gotten the book "Actual Size" but it's a bit too advanced for him. Sadly, there is still a lot of text in it, and I would say he would need to wait about 4 yrs before he could really enjoy it and have the attention span to sit down and read it. It is a cute book with Jenkins' trademark cut-paper illustrations, which I love so much. It tells little stories about each animal/bird/insect and what they eat. The book also has a more detailed description in the back of the book of each creature. Great book for boys ages 5-9, 3 stars.
September 19, 2011
Didn't love the layout or design of the text in this, but it had some interesting facts, and I can see the appeal for young readers. Not fantastic for being widely accessible. Loved the extra facts in the last couple pages on each animal in the book.
April 22, 2020
I enjoyed reading this book. It contains so much information on several different animals based off of what they eat. I had a great time learning about all the meals animals eat and now know what animals to avoid. Jenkins does an amazing job once again on creating his illustrations. He makes the animals look realistic. I loved seeing all the animals at the end of the book with more detailed information about what they eat. This helps readers learn more about the animals he has in the book. Introducing this book to young readers can help them learn about animals. They can learn interesting facts about them and share them to their friends and family. How I would incorporate this book in my class would be by making an activity for students to research their favorite animal. They can look up what their animal eats and how much it weighs and all sorts of cool facts.
April 14, 2022
Steve Jenkins does a wonderful job navigating his readers around the world. Jenkins focuses on many different types of animals and the different diets they require. This books opens up conversations for readers to discuss cultural traditions when it comes to food. Healthy food option benefits can also be a topic of discussion here. I feel as though this book gets readers excited because not only is it informational, but it is filled with beautiful and realistic illustrations.
January 21, 2018
I enjoyed reading this book. Not only was it a great book, but it was very informative throughout the story. giving different animals (Pandas) and what they need to eat. I also enjoyed the pictures throughout the book also. I would recommend this book if looking for something informational.
May 26, 2017
And informative picture book about panda bears. I would give this book 2 out of five stars for it's pretty illustrations and interesting facts about panda bears and what they eat.
October 3, 2018
Well researched and well presented information about what and how 17 different birds, animals, and insects eat. Wonderful illustrations.
March 28, 2019
Not my favorite Steve Jenkins, but fun tales of different animals and what they eat, or how they eat.
July 7, 2022
Tells you about what animals eat, especially the weird things they eat!
September 15, 2016
An eye-opening look at the wide range of things critters in our world consider to be food, or how much or little they eat.
This one will have eww factor appeal. The one frog who sheds and eats its own skin with the bugs stuck to it just made me gag. Other kids will love the beetles who live off or even in balls of dung. And I think the shrew who has to eat every 2-3 hours or it will starve and thus will eat just about anything is great fodder for a B scifi movie (move over Godzilla, there's a northern short-tailed shrew that just got shot with gamma rays and grew to 500 times its size). Fascinating, informative and yes, at times gross. As always in Jenkins' books, more info on each animal featured is included in the back of the book.
This one will have eww factor appeal. The one frog who sheds and eats its own skin with the bugs stuck to it just made me gag. Other kids will love the beetles who live off or even in balls of dung. And I think the shrew who has to eat every 2-3 hours or it will starve and thus will eat just about anything is great fodder for a B scifi movie (move over Godzilla, there's a northern short-tailed shrew that just got shot with gamma rays and grew to 500 times its size). Fascinating, informative and yes, at times gross. As always in Jenkins' books, more info on each animal featured is included in the back of the book.
January 28, 2012
Time to Eat by Steve Jenkins, illustrated by Robin Page tells what & how different animals collect, store and eat.
The foods vary from bamboo shoots, live animal blood, live worms, tree stored acorns, nuts and seeds, impaled insects, living paralyzed insects, mucus & bug covered skin, swallowed whole prey, rock grinded plants, dung balls, regurgitated fish, orchid nectar, beetles in dead trees, anything, nibbled new foods and whale milk.
The text is of varying sizes. Three final pages give more information about each animal.
The illustrations are torn and cut paper collage, portraying seventeen animals: giant panda, common wood tick, northern short tailed shrew, acorn woodpecker, chipmunk, butcherbird, black widow spider, anaconda, ostrich, dung beetle, pelican, giant hawk moth, aye-aye, tiger shark, black rat and blue whale.
This book has great illustrations and many fascinating animal facts. This will work as a classroom read-aloud, one on one read-aloud and a treat for animal loving readers. Young readers may enjoy the small format of the book, though I would have liked a larger format for storytime use. I love this collection featuring a wide variety of animals. Highly recommended for school and public library collections.
For grades K - 3, animals, food, eating, nature, science, read-aloud, series, and fans of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
The foods vary from bamboo shoots, live animal blood, live worms, tree stored acorns, nuts and seeds, impaled insects, living paralyzed insects, mucus & bug covered skin, swallowed whole prey, rock grinded plants, dung balls, regurgitated fish, orchid nectar, beetles in dead trees, anything, nibbled new foods and whale milk.
The text is of varying sizes. Three final pages give more information about each animal.
The illustrations are torn and cut paper collage, portraying seventeen animals: giant panda, common wood tick, northern short tailed shrew, acorn woodpecker, chipmunk, butcherbird, black widow spider, anaconda, ostrich, dung beetle, pelican, giant hawk moth, aye-aye, tiger shark, black rat and blue whale.
This book has great illustrations and many fascinating animal facts. This will work as a classroom read-aloud, one on one read-aloud and a treat for animal loving readers. Young readers may enjoy the small format of the book, though I would have liked a larger format for storytime use. I love this collection featuring a wide variety of animals. Highly recommended for school and public library collections.
For grades K - 3, animals, food, eating, nature, science, read-aloud, series, and fans of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
January 12, 2011
Jenkins and Page continue their collaboration with a new series of nature books for young children. The other two books in the series are Time for a Bath (coming in May) and Time to Sleep (just released). In this book, readers learn about the many strange and different things that animals eat. From the rocks that an ostrich has to eat to chew its food to the tapping thin fingers of an aye-aye looking for lunch, the facts are fascinating.
Those facts are paired with Jenkins’ illustrations done in paper collage. As always, his collage work captures the texture of fur, the softness of feathers, and the smoothness of skin. They manage to be simple yet demonstrate the complexity of the animals.
Make sure to turn to the end of the book for more details about the featured animals. The facts included in the body of the book read aloud very well, offering just enough detail to be interesting and yet to move along quickly.
This is a great book to add to any library’s nature section and to keep on hand for any nature or animal story times you will be doing. The dung beetle alone is sure to get children intrigued! Appropriate for ages 4-7.
Those facts are paired with Jenkins’ illustrations done in paper collage. As always, his collage work captures the texture of fur, the softness of feathers, and the smoothness of skin. They manage to be simple yet demonstrate the complexity of the animals.
Make sure to turn to the end of the book for more details about the featured animals. The facts included in the body of the book read aloud very well, offering just enough detail to be interesting and yet to move along quickly.
This is a great book to add to any library’s nature section and to keep on hand for any nature or animal story times you will be doing. The dung beetle alone is sure to get children intrigued! Appropriate for ages 4-7.
May 2, 2011
Time to Eat explores the eating habits of some unusual animals from the panda to the blue whale. We find out what, how, and when they eat.
What I thought: I'm becoming quite a fan of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. When I see their names in a review, the book goes on my order list. Time to Eat is the perfect blend of facts and pictures. It is simple enough to appeal to preschoolers but informative enough so that elementary and middle school students could use it for research. I love the illustrations. I has no idea that cut and torn paper collage could be so intricate. My favorite illustrations are the panda, chipmunk, and aye aye.
What I thought: I'm becoming quite a fan of Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. When I see their names in a review, the book goes on my order list. Time to Eat is the perfect blend of facts and pictures. It is simple enough to appeal to preschoolers but informative enough so that elementary and middle school students could use it for research. I love the illustrations. I has no idea that cut and torn paper collage could be so intricate. My favorite illustrations are the panda, chipmunk, and aye aye.
April 24, 2012
I love Steve Jenkins' work and have enjoyed all of his collaborations with his wife, Robin Page, that I have read so far. This one (as you can guess from the title) deals with how animals eat and what animals eat...especially some of the strange or unique ways/things animals eat. Both girls and boys in my class enjoyed this...equally fascinated and grossed out by animals such as the crucifix toad which has sticky skin. Bugs stick to it and then it sheds...eating its own skin along with the bugs stuck to the skin.
May 8, 2013
This informative picture book has lots of cool -- and gross -- facts about animals eating. I could see 3-6th graders enjoying it, especially boys. My infant son enjoyed listening to me read it and looking at pictures, even though at 6 months old he has no clue what I am reading.
The passages on each page are short and non-intimidating with opportunities to discuss and be excited about the content (Wow! The anaconda eats an entire deer at a time, but only eats 4 times a year. I would hate to eat only a once every 4 months. I love eating.)
The passages on each page are short and non-intimidating with opportunities to discuss and be excited about the content (Wow! The anaconda eats an entire deer at a time, but only eats 4 times a year. I would hate to eat only a once every 4 months. I love eating.)
May 15, 2011
Love jenkins illustrations, which are so tactile and refined though they're done with torn paper. The tidbits about animals' eating eccentricities are perfect for capturing a child's attention - equally disgusting and fascinating (especially the butcherbird and the cruxifix toad - yuck - as the first skewers bugs on thorns, and the later traps bugs on its sticky skin, then sheds the skin and downs it!).
November 26, 2011
Steve Jenkins does it again. Another kid friendly book this one about weird eating habits of some animals. Some are common while some are rare. Great pictures with bite sized information just the right amount for most kids to absorb. I like the small size of the book making it easy for kids to handle. As usual with most of Jenkin's books there is additional information about each animal in the back.
September 9, 2013
This is a fascinating non-fiction book about interesting ways in which some in the animal kingdom obtain, store, even digest some of their food. Steve Jenkins always comes through with great information and this is no exception. Have you hear of the butcherbird who spears the grasshoppers on tree thorns, then sets about to eat his prey, rather like using a fork? The illustrations are realistic, greys, black and white with a bit of coloring.
April 29, 2013
Of course, if it's nonfiction written by Steve Jenkins, it's bound to be good. This one collects really interesting facts about what animals eats and presents them in short passages that would serve as excellent mentor texts for paragraph development as well as for thinking about what information to include and what to leave out.
December 30, 2013
This is another fantastically illustrated picture book for children by Steven Jenkins. Time to Eat describes the dietary habits of several different species of animals; frogs are by far the most disgusting creature ever! Kids will love this informative read and elementary teachers can easily use this as additional science curriculum.
January 4, 2011
Another must have by this husband and wife team. Regular book text is easy enough for less able readers ... and the more detailed info in the back will satisfy older curious kids.
And still LOVE the collage illustrations!
And still LOVE the collage illustrations!
April 13, 2011
I love the paper collage illustrations characteristic of Steve Jenkins. Time to Eat gives little known and fascinating facts about how many animals eat, including: ticks may wait years for a meal, but then it consumes as much as 100 times its own weight in blood. Fascinating!
July 21, 2011
Jenkins excels again with a book about animals eating habits. Of course, the dung beetle is the hit of the title but my early elementary audience enjoyed the entire book. Not a readaloud (storytime)--unless used in classroom setting that allows for discussion.
July 23, 2011
This is an excellent book on animals and what they eat! I learned so much from this book! The illustrations are captivating and the information is awesome! Many not so familiar animals are featured in this book and that's what made it so interesting for me.
September 5, 2011
Interesting book about what different animals eat- full of interesting information and illustrations. Would actually be great for my middle school classroom.
Makes me want to read Time to Sleep and Time for a Bath
Makes me want to read Time to Sleep and Time for a Bath
October 17, 2011
Another great book in the series on animals that answers one essential question about a variety of animals. It was all very well done and the other two books are just as well written. I really enjoyed the whole series. It'd be great if there were others as well.
December 31, 2011
This book and the 2 others, Time to Sleep, and Time for a Bath are perfect non-fiction read alouds. Great vocabulary too! Just right for introducing adaptation in a way young readers and listeners can understand and relate too. Don't you just love the Dung Beetle?
January 5, 2012
Loved this one as much or better than Time to Sleep also by Jenkins.
Wonderful illustrations and fabulous information. I think kids will be riveted.
Wonderful illustrations and fabulous information. I think kids will be riveted.
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