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We Build Our Homes Laura Knowles

We Build Our Homes By Laura Knowles

We Build Our Homes by Laura Knowles


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Summary

We Build Our Homesis a beautifully illustrated picture book exploring the incredible structures built by animals and the reasons why they build them. Each spread looks at a different animal, told as though from their viewpoint.

We Build Our Homes Summary

We Build Our Homes: Small Stories of Incredible Animal Architects by Laura Knowles

Its not only humans who can build incredible structures: around the world, mammals, birdsand insects can be found building incredible things. From big beaver dams to tiny caddisfly cases, this beautifully illustrated picture book explores each animals incredible home and uncovers the reasons why they build.

Featuring 26 creatures from around the world, each amazing animal architect tells its own 'micro story' about its impressive architectural skills in this delightfully unique wildlife book.

Among the amazing builders youll meet:
  • Ovenbirds, who carry clumps of mud up into the trees to make their nest
  • Darwins bark spiders, who build webs stretching out as far as three buses, end-to-end
  • Moles, who use their spade-like paws to dig extensive networks of tunnels with nesting spaces andstorerooms where they keep earthworms to snack on later
  • Polar bear mothers, who make their dens under the snow to stay in for five long months, nursing their cubs and eating nothing themselves
Through lyrical text and entrancing edge-to-edge illustrations, admire the spectacular ingenuity of these animal architects.

We Build Our Homes Reviews

'Succinct text conveys image-rich detail... a compelling book, gloriouslyexecuted.' * BBC Wildlife *
'Knowles introduces us through gentle rhyme to the domestic lives of some common and unusual creatures, andChris Maddenbrings their homes to life using strong contrasts from his watercolour palette.' * The Irish Times *
'...an intriguing look at the impressive architectural skills of creatures big and small.' * BookTrust *

About Laura Knowles

Laura Knowles has a background in childrens publishing and is the author of We Travel So Far, Once Upon a Jungle, The Coral Kingdom andIt Starts with a Seed, winner of the 2017 Margaret Mallett Award forChildrens Non-fiction and shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award 2018. Her love of natural history, words and art have drawn her to work on books about animals and nature.

Chris Madden is a Salford-born editorial and lifestyle illustrator. Since graduating from Stockport College with a first-class BA honours degree in Design and Visual arts, his illustrations have appeared in many national magazines and newspapers. He is the illustrator of words & pictures titlesWe Travel So Far and We Build Our Homes.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Weaver Birds
Satin Bowerbirds
Oven Birds
Sociable Weavers
Edible-nest Swiftlets
Hummingbirds
White Storks
Malleefowl
Termites
Honey Bees
Paper Wasps
Caddisfly Larvae
Trapdoor Spiders
Darwins Bark Spiders
Weaver Ants
Butterflies
Yellow-spotted Monitor Lizards
European Moles
Aardvarks
Meerkats
Bears
Gophers
Harvest Mice
Beavers
Chimpanzees
Humans
World Map
Animal Architect stats

Additional information

GOR009788900
9781910277836
1910277835
We Build Our Homes: Small Stories of Incredible Animal Architects by Laura Knowles
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quarto Publishing PLC
2018-10-18
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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