Wherever his family moved, this author/illustrator and his scientist dad collaborated on science journals. When he started college he planned to follow in his father's footseps, but he saw that the graphic design majors seemed to be having way more fun than the science students, so he went in that direction. He met his wife artist Robin Page in North Carolina at design school, and they moved to New York City and then to Boulder, Colorado. His carefully detailed torn-and-cut-paper illustrations reflected his love of nature in his books "Actual Size," "Biggest, Strongest, Fastest" and he won the Caldecott award for "What Do You Do With A Tail Like That?" He and his wife collaborated on many of his 80 books, and on raising their three children. Getting kids excited about science was his great joy. He died of an aneurism in 2021 at the age of 69. This was Steve Jenkins.
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