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I'm Building a Nest
Find Out How 50 Animals Make Their Homes
Series: How Animals Live
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Follow Bird as she discovers how animals make their homes in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness! Caves, holes, hills, hives and especially nests – they all make GREAT homes for animals but there are SO many MORE....
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I'm Building a Nest is full of fascinating facts to teach young readers about how animals make their home - narrated by a bird who is sure her nest is best!
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Description
Follow Bird as she discovers how animals make their homes in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness!
Caves, holes, hills, hives and especially nests – they all make GREAT homes for animals but there are SO many MORE. From snow drifts, webs and shells to logs, pebbles and tunnels and even a hot underwater volcano, follow Bird as she discovers how over 50 different animals make, find and build their homes in this super-fun collection of awesome animal tales.
Find out whose home is also used as a trip wire, wrapping paper, parachute... and submarine?! (Spider!) Or which animal clears a tidy path to their log-pile house to make it easier for visitors? (Rattlesnake! But watch out, visitors... this animal plans to gobble you up!) Whose home has a larder, dining room and super-slidey escape tunnel?! (Mole!) Plus, find out which house ends up being the BEST after all. And guess what? It's not just birds who make nests as this little Bird is about to find out!
Children will love discovering all the different kinds of animal homes and which clever creatures made, found and built them with awesome facts that are easy to remember, making learning about the animal world fun.
Series: How Animals Live
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I'm Building a Nest
Follow Bird as she discovers how animals make their homes in this clever creature caper, packed with oodles of facts and a spoonful of silliness! Caves, holes, hills, hives and especially nests – they all make GREAT homes for animals but there are SO many MORE. From snow drifts, webs and shells to logs, pebbles and tunnels and even a...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780711295544
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 20 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Happy Yak
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Adam Ming
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 235.0mm
Height: 290.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Saskia Gwinn has spent nearly 20 years carefully crafting beautiful books to inspire kids of all ages. She has worked as Head of Children's Non-fiction for Bloomsbury Publishing, as Editorial Director for A which he writes about in his popular "Adam's Notes" Newsletter.
He lives with his wife and daughter in Kuala Lumpur.
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