Home

Step inside the homes of twenty-seven animals, from a hermit crab that moves into a used shell to a beaver that builds a dam beside a lake and a comet moth that spins a silk cocoon. Isabelle Simler, the creator of this book, guides young readers through these dwellings in verse that reads like a journey across the globe.

Across Europe, alpine marmots shelter in underground refuges. In Southeast Asia, Sumatran orangutans rest in bedrooms high in the treetops. Elf owls nest in holes carved into saguaro cacti in Mexico and the southwestern United States. On every continent except Antarctica, honeybees shape wax into palaces for their queens. Wherever you go, some animal is constructing a remarkable place to live.

The book links these homes to life cycles, camouflage, and other biological ideas. Back matter adds further information, and detailed illustrations accompany the poems, encouraging children to marvel at the variety and inventiveness of the animals that share our world.