Jenkins, Martin

Describes different kinds of chameleons, examining their physical features, their behavior, and their ability to change color.

Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.

An illustrated version of the epic tale in which an eccentric country gentleman and his companion set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.

A colorful book about chameleons.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of insects, spiders, and worms.

Discusses desert people, climate, landscape, plants, animals, and present and future threats to them.

Describes the behavior, diets, and habitats of the orangutan, chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla before revealing that humans are the other great ape, discussing simple similarities between people and the other apes and the need to protect these species.

Describes the behavior of elephants in a family group, particularly the role of the older female elephants.

Examines vampires in literature, film, history, and the animal world.