A series for the young architect, designer or engineer who wants to understand how animals build their amazing homes - and copy their ideas! Information is inspired by stories, photos, and architect's challenges.

Young Architect introduces budding designers and engineers to the basic concepts and vocabulary of building design. Fun images of real and imaginary buildings help teach kids about the different parts of a structure, building materials, and how engineers solve different kinds of construction problems. Animal Homes Can you imagine building a home without using your arms? How do animals do it? What kinds of materials do different animals use? Do they build on their own or in groups? An architect's notebook helps answer questions about animal architects and engineers in Animal Homes. Book jacket.

We Build Our Homes is 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.

Do you like to build? These animals do too! My Life Science Library: Animal Architects introduces young readers in kindergarten to grade 2 to animals that build homes to meet their needs. Early elementary readers will learn about how animals build shelters, nests, traps, and more. This collection introduces a variety of natural science topics for early learners based on life science NGSS standards. From amazing animal builders to plant reproduction, these books present complicated information in easy-to-understand language and provide kid-friendly examples. Each book includes an activity that supports further comprehension

"Did you know the natural world is a construction zone? Amazing animals all over the world are building all kinds of structures every single day. This fascinating, fact-filled book will captivate young scientists and naturalists and have them looking out for animal construction projects happening in their own backyards!"--

Collects photographs of structures created by animals, from the six-foot-high hills of tiny red ants to the colorfully decorated courtship arenas of the bowerbird, showcasing the connections between human and animal architecture.

Working Homes is an imaginative series in which children will learn about structures, shapes, materials, design, architectural features, layouts. Information is inspired by stories, photos, and architect's challenges.

A series for the young architect, designer or engineer who wants to plan and build their own ecologically sound home that will also help our planet. Information is inspired by stories, photos, and architect's challenges.

Shells, nests, mounds, bowers, galleries, dens, lodges, and the creative critters that build them are explored in this fascinating introduction to animal habitats. The featured creature carpenters dig, mould, spin, and weave their homes with an intricacy fascinating to budding zoologists. Children learn how these industrious animals can adjust their homes for temperature and comfort, make escape hatches, and store food for their young. Familiar industrious animals such as beavers, prairie dogs, and spiders are included alongside exotic wombats, oven birds, and naked mole rats as memorable examples of animals that adapt to and even renovate their environments.