Our youngest son was born a few years after we moved to Colorado in 1994, providing us with a new audience and source of book ideas.įor me, making books represents the happy intersection of children, science, art, my design partnership with Robin, and my life-long love of reading. Reading to my own children started me thinking about writing and illustrating my own picture books. In many ways, it was the best part of the day. But it was my first morning in these new surroundings, and I was startled when I opened my eyes.

We continued to read to them almost every evening until my daughter was a teenager. For starters, I was in a sunroom on a mattress with a pig. Robin and I began reading to our children when they were just a few months old. Our daughter was born in 1986 and our first son two years later. After graduation I moved to New York City and worked in advertising and design, first in large firms and then with my wife, Robin Page, in our own small design firm.

At the last minute, however, I decided to go to art school in North Carolina, where I studied graphic design. Steve Jenkins - bass guitar (solos on tracks 1, 3, 5), synth bass, keyboards, drum programming, guitar (tracks 7, 8), additional rhythm guitar (tracks 1. His wife, Robin Page, said the cause was a splenic artery aneurysm. My interest in science led me to believe that I’d be a scientist myself. Steve Jenkins, an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator whose passion for science, as well as his meticulous and vibrant cut-paper collages, brought the natural world to life, died on Dec. With my father’s help, I assembled radios, electric motors, and other contraptions. Steve Jenkins has written and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor-winning What Do You Do with a Tail Like. I built a chemistry lab in which many frightful smells and loud explosions were produced. Wherever we lived, I maintained a small menagerie of lizards, turtles, spiders, and other animals. As a child, I lived in North Carolina, Panama, Virginia, Kansas, California, and Colorado. My father, a physics professor and astronomer, did research and taught at various universities.

My first day by steve jenkins