5 Wild Homes

by Happy Yak, Natasha Durley (Illustrator)

With gentle rhyming text and eye-catching, brightly-coloured illustrations, this interactive board book introduces some amazing animal homes. Simply put your finger on the disc and move it along the trail to trace the shape on each page. Perfect for developing hand-eye co-ordination. 

Genres: Animals

10 pages, Board Book

Published October 26, 2021

Reviews

[Theediscerning]

A board book that demands baby gets to grips with having a book in their hand, and exploring all it can offer – even if that is just having a nubbin one can move across or around the design. From a jungle to the Arctic, this takes us to five locations where we see nature in all its colourful, active best, with a rhyming couplet to talk of what we're seeing and bold design to present the diorama in each instance. Some of the landscape has that interactive piece, so you can move it around its cardboard circuit and trace the shape of a mountain or the wave a dolphin's splashing over. And when that's been grown out of, there are still the details and animals in the pictures to start naming. Not so much a book but a tool for making book-lovers, there's nothing here to dislike.

[The Silvan Reverie | Sarah Street]

This is a beautiful and engaging board book for littles -- it's themed on biomes and features the ocean, jungle, mountains, desert, and the Arctic. That's right, this is only 5 pages. But the text is nice and rhyming, easy to read through and paired with little cutouts the child can move with their little fingers. There is a jellyfish you can move while you learn the word "wave," for example, or a little circle to move along a triangle path as you learn the word "mountain." It's fun and cute, nice illustrations and love the rhyming text.

***Note: I was given a review copy of this book by Quarto Kids. Opinions are my own.

[Catherine Craig (Angelic Light)]

This is a very short board book for very young children, which shows the homes of 5 wild animals, such as polar bear and snow leopard. The illustrations are very bright and colourful and the writing is told in a rhyming format, which is great. My daughter loved the book as she loves animals.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Shauna Morrison]

The illustrations in this book are bright, colourful, and engaging. Small children will have fun tracing the shapes in this interactive board book. A great starter book for introducing different habitats to young children.

[Andréa]

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

[A.]

Cute, and engaging, but a bit of a missed opportunity leaving two of the five discs blank.

[Kaitlyn Wells]

This is a fun little board book with bright illustrations. This book features different snapshots of ecosystems with a small rhyming scheme.