Synopsis Discover the secrets and myths about animal builders, how and why animals fit into categories based on how they build places to live.

This is a great book explaining how animals build their homes. Did you know that one weaver bird builds its nest with spider webs? Some mice build balls of straw with holes in them for a nest. Beavers build dams in rivers to live in. Animal homes can be in very different places and habitats.

Amazingly, there are many different kinds of animal homes, just as many as there are different kinds of animals. There are bejillions of different kinds of animals. There are animal homes: in water, on tree branches and trunks, in underground burrows, in tiny slots, and even some in ice caves. Animals have found ways to adapt to different habitats with different kinds of homes.

This book has sidebars describing specific animal homes. For example, in one sidebar, you can find horned eggs where baby dogfish grow, and spiders wrapping bugs in silk hanging from a web. Each of the animal builders mentioned in the sidebar also have an illustration. The drawings are awesome, they are very well drawn and very colorful.

I recommend this book to kids who want to grow up to save animal habitats. ( )