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I'm Building a Nest: Find Out How 50 Animals Make Their Homes(How Animals Live)

I'm Building a Nest: Find Out How 50 Animals Make Their Homes(How Animals Live)


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Follow Bird as she discovers how animals make their homes in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness!    Caves, holes, hills, hives and especially nests – they all make GREAT homes for animals but there are SO many MORE. From snow drifts, webs and shells to logs, pebbles and tunnels and even a hot underwater volcano, follow Bird as she discovers how over 50 different animals make, find and build their homes in this super-fun collection of awesome animal tales.   Find out whose home is also used as a trip wire, wrapping paper, parachute . . . and  submarine?! (Spider!) Or which animal clears a tidy a path to their log-pile house to make it easier for visitors? (Rattlesnake! But watch out, visitors . . .  this animal plans to gobble you up!) Whose home has a larder, dining room and super-slidey escape tunnel?! (Mole!) Plus find out which house ends up being the BEST after all. And guess what? It’s not just birds who make nests as this this little Bird is about to find out!   Children will love discovering all the different kinds of animal homes and which clever creatures made, found and built them with awesome facts that are easy to remember to make learning about the animal world fun.  

Table of Contents:
I’M BUILDING A NEST Ruby-throated hummingbird WE’RE MAKING NESTS, TOO Stork, trumpeter swan, beaver, swiftlet, red-headed woodpecker I’M SPINNING A WEB Garden web spider, jumping spider, nursery web spider, golden diving bell spider, golden silk orb weaver I’M GOING BALLOONING Crab spider I’M ROLLING UP POOP Dung beetle, minotaur beetle, African dung beetle, rainbow scarab beetle I’M BURROWING A HOLE Bumblebee I’M LOOKING FOR LOGS Rattlesnake I’M MAKING A MOUND Termite I’M DIGGING A TUNNEL Mole, Zambian mole rat, badger, worm EVEN MORE TUNNELS! Greater bilby, armadillo, aardvark, warthog WE’RE BORROWING TUNNELS Meerkat I’M CLIMBING TO A CAVE Snow leopard I’M SCOOPING OUT SNOW Polar bear WE’RE DIGGING SNOW DENS Arctic hare, ringed seal, arctic wolf, arctic fox WE’RE MAKING DENS, TOO! Spectacled bear, brown bear, sloth bear, panda, black bear I’M PILING UP PEBBLES Adelie penguin I’M STACKING UP SHELLS Gloomy octopus I’M HIDING IN A HOT-WATER SPRING Yeti crab EVEN MORE OCEAN HOMES! Leopard shark, butterflyfish, clownfish, limpet, rock gunnel eel, hermit crab SO WHICH HOME IS BEST ? EVEN MORE NESTS! Queen wasp, harvest mouse, alligator, squirrel, gorilla, Siamese fighting fish, duck-billed platypus WE BUILT NESTS, TOO! Maiasaura

About the Author :
Saskia Gwinn has spent nearly 20 years carefully crafting beautiful books to inspire kids of all ages. She has worked as Head of Children’s Non-fiction for Bloomsbury Publishing, as Editorial Director for A&C Black and as Editor for educational publishers and magazines. She has written and published award-winning books for every age and on every topic from how time began to the silliest things in the world today. Saskia lives in Hertfordshire with her two boys who hope dinosaurs will one day revisit Earth but, in the meantime, tells them that everything on the planet has an equally exciting story to tell.Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator. He makes witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility. His illustrations jump off the page, with a tactile quality that makes you want to pick them up. Adam is obsessed with the creative process, constantly refining his own practice; which he writes about in his popular “Adam’s Notes” Newsletter. He lives with his wife and daughter in Kuala Lumpur.  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780711295544
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Happy Yak
  • Height: 290 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Sub Title: Find Out How 50 Animals Make Their Homes
  • Width: 235 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0711295549
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: How Animals Live
  • Weight: 500 gr


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