How Animals Build (How Things Work)
by Lonely Planet Kids (Author) Tim Hutchinson (Illustrator)
Lonely Planet Kids' How Animals Build is a beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap hardback that explores the incredible world of animal architects. Children can open flaps and unfold spreads to discover amazing animal homes up high, underground, on land, and under the sea.
From spider webs and rabbit warrens, to bird nests and ant colonies, and even coral reefs and beaver lodges, we reveal the secrets to these extraordinary structures and how they're built. Do bees need cement mixers to build hives? Do beavers use cranes to construct dams? No, of course not! Like many animals, they're building geniuses who don't need building site tools to create incredible work. Welcome to nature's very own, super-clever world of construction.
Created in consultation with Michael Leach, wildlife expert, speaker, photographer, filmographer, and author of over 20 books on subjects ranging from big cats and owls to great apes and bears.
Themed topics include:
Apartment Block with Branches
Dig, Diggers, Dig!
Number 1 Bunny Street
A Winning Design
It's Buzzing in Here!
Nest Neighborhoods
This Way to Waterworld
Extreme Builders
Mouse House Here
About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humor and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place-inspiring children at home and in school.Named Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 by the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) and Children's Book Council (CBC) 2017
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School Library Journal
Gr 3-5--How do animals build their homes? The answer is revealed in its grand and impressive variety through a number of well-illustrated foldout pages and lift-the-flap features that show animal homes above ground, below ground, underwater, and even in human homes and farmyard barns. The colorful images are clearly labeled and the descriptive text will enhance readers' knowledge. For example, the section on animals that dig their homes in the ground shows meerkats, prairie dogs, gopher tortoises, and naked mole rats above ground; when the flap showing an animal is lifted, readers see that animal's burrow underneath. This is followed by a four-page foldout showing the inside of a rabbit warren. The generous volume of detail will help kids understand the author's reference to animals as "building geniuses." VERDICT A delight to browse through and even better for a close-up examination, this book is an excellent choice for nonfiction library collections and for classroom units on animals. It is also a useful mentor text for showing how information can be presented by successfully combining words and illustration.--Myra Zarnowski, City University of New York
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JNF003000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
Toy and movable books
Juvenile works
Animal behavior
Habitations
Lift-the-flap books
