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.
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.
Explains why caves make a good home for some kinds of animals, and describes the different zones found in caves and how bats and other land and marine creatures live in caves.
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.