Step Inside!: A Look Inside Animal Homes - Hardcover

Ham, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0983201420 ISBN 13: 9780983201427

Publisher: EarlyLight Books, Incorporated, 2012

Synopsis

Explore the places that animals call home.

Discover crevices and pits where eels and reef fish make camouflaged homes. Peek through a bubble nest to find a spittlebug nymph hiding inside, cool and disguised. Then travel underground to see the trick tunnels of trapdoor spiders and the intricate highways and byways of moles.

Dozens of animal homes are presented in fun, full-color photographs, while their home-building and home-living behavior is explored in playful verse.

Animal lovers of any age will be wowed by the photographs and the insights about the amazing homes of these amazing animals.

About this title

About the Author

An avid birdwatcher and hiker, Catherine Ham enjoys writing about animals she has seen in the wild. Catherine is the author of ANIMAL FIGHTS and ANIMAL NAPS. She is also the author of several best-selling knitting books, including WEEKEND CRAFTER KNITTING: 20 SIMPLE STYLISH WEARABLES FOR BEGINNERS. Catherine lives in Austin, Texas.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Which home would you use
If you had to choose?
A hoe in a tree
Or one deep in the ground?
A reef in hte sea?
Or a tall termite mound?
A home on your back?
A dwelling of sticks?
But none of htese creatures
Builds his house of bricks

Edition details

• Publisher: EarlyLight Books, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983201420
• ISBN 13: 9780983201427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32