Paperback
(Weekly Reader Early Learning Library, Jan. 1, 2008)
Our leveled-reader series describes how the types of homes that different animals build reflect adaptations to their environments. Each volume looks at each type of home as a shelter from predators and weather and a place to store food and raise young. Young readers also learn how animal homes and human home fulfill similar needs and functions.
Explains why nests make a good home for birds and other animals, and describes different kinds of bird's nests, and how fish, reptiles, and mammals also live in nests.
Explains why hives make a good home for honeybees, and describes how bees build and protect the hive, the different functions that the bees perform, the parts of the hive, and swarming.