I'm Building a Nest: Find Out How 50 Animals Make Their Homes

by Saskia Gwinn, Adam Ming (Illustrator)

Overview

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 a 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 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 to make learning about the animal world fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711295551
Publisher:	Happy Yak
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Series:	How Animals Live Series , #1
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	9.55(w) x 11.75(h) x (d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

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&C Black and as Editor for educational publishers and magazines. She has written and published award-winning books for every age and on every topic from how time began to the silliest things in the world today. Saskia lives in Hertfordshire, uk, with her two boys who hope dinosaurs will one day revisit Earth but, in the meantime, tells them that everything on the planet has an equally exciting story to tell.Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator. He makes witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility. His illustrations jump off the page, with a tactile quality that makes you want to pick them up. Adam is obsessed with the creative process, constantly refining his own practice; which he writes about in his popular “Adam’s Notes” Newsletter.
He lives with his wife and daughter in Kuala Lumpur.

Table of Contents

I’M BUILDING A NEST
Ruby-throated hummingbird
WE’RE MAKING NESTS, TOO
Stork, trumpeter swan, beaver,
swiftlet, red-headed woodpecker
I’M SPINNING A WEB
Garden web spider, jumping spider,
nursery web spider, golden diving bell spider, golden silk orb weaver
I’M GOING BALLOONING
Crab spider
I’M ROLLING UP POOP
Dung beetle, minotaur beetle, African dung beetle, rainbow scarab beetle
I’M BURROWING A HOLE
Bumblebee
I’M LOOKING FOR LOGS
Rattlesnake
I’M MAKING A MOUND
Termite
I’M DIGGING A TUNNEL
Mole, Zambian mole rat, badger, worm
EVEN MORE TUNNELS!
Greater bilby, armadillo, aardvark,
warthog
WE’RE BORROWING TUNNELS
Meerkat
I’M CLIMBING TO A CAVE
Snow leopard
I’M SCOOPING OUT SNOW
Polar bear
WE’RE DIGGING SNOW DENS
Arctic hare, ringed seal, arctic wolf,
arctic fox
WE’RE MAKING DENS, TOO!
Spectacled bear, brown bear,
sloth bear, panda, black bear
I’M PILING UP PEBBLES
Adelie penguin
I’M STACKING UP SHELLS
Gloomy octopus
I’M HIDING IN A
HOT-WATER SPRING
Yeti crab
EVEN MORE
OCEAN HOMES!
Leopard shark, butterflyfish,
clownfish, limpet, rock gunnel eel,
hermit crab
SO WHICH HOME IS BEST?
EVEN MORE NESTS!
Queen wasp, harvest mouse, alligator,
squirrel, gorilla, Siamese fighting fish,
duck-billed platypus
WE BUILT NESTS, TOO!
Maiasaura