Amazing Animal Homes

by Chris Packham, Jason Cockcroft (Illustrations)

All animals need homes—and this nonfiction picture book is a fantastic introduction to some of the amazing places they live.
 
Travel around the world to see different animal habitats, from honeybees that live together in hives to snails that hibernate in their shells during winter. You’ll meet tree-dwelling creatures like the ruffled lemur; snow leopards that take shelter in a cave; porcupines that dig burrows underground; and even animals who carry their homes around on their backs. Filled with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations, this is a wonderful nonfiction picture book and a fabulous follow-up to our Amazing Animal Journeys and Amazing Animal Babies.

Genres: Picture Books, Nonfiction, Animals, Nature, Science

32 pages, Hardcover

Published May 15, 2018

About the author

Chris Packham is a British naturalist and TV presenter and is well known for his many BBC television series since the days of The Really Wild Show through to Springwatch. He is an award winning photographer and writer, whose career has revolved around promoting public awareness of wildlife and conservation for more than 25 years. He continues to be a part of pioneering natural history television, such as Secrets of our Living Planet, Inside the Animal Mind and Operation Iceberg.

Reviews

[Joanna]

I read a book like this last year and was a little worried that this would more or less be redundant. It wasn’t! I don’t know that any of the animals were repeated (there are a lot of animals in the world, so one would hope we wouldn’t constantly write about just a few) and they were all very interesting. I was particularly interested in the Redoven Birds and their perfect little houses that they work really hard on and the kind of weird Star Pearlfish who live inside sea cucumber butts. Yep. Butts.
The illustrations are beautiful as well, so all in all this is an excellent book.

Also I read it to the chickens at work. Can’t say they were super into it, but also I’ve never read to them before.

[Jamie Macaluso]

This book has beautiful illustrations. The story is traveling the world showing different ecosystems and animal homes. It compares animals to another and also shows differences! I enjoyed this book although it could have a better story behind it so that students would be more interested in it because I could see children getting bored!

[Karla]

I wanted to like this more... but I didn't
It just was too much for the intended audience
wasn't as engaging as I felt it should be
there are other books on this topic that do the job, simply better

[Kelly]

Interesting information in the nicely illustrated book about unique animal homes.

[Koen vV]

Vanaf ongeveer zes jaar. Beknopt maar met leuke weetjes en mooi getekend. Ook de "extra" weetjes achteraan zijn zeker de moeite.