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Taylor, Barbara

 
9781607100041: Animal Homes

Synopsis

There are animal architects, animal builders, and even animal squatters--meet them all in 3-D Close Up: Animal Homes. With four awesome pop-up cross sections, this fascinating new book gives young readers a chance to do in-depth investigations of some dazzling dwellings--in the trees, in the water, and underground--and meet the amazing animals that live inside. Kids will love exploring intricate insect cities, weaverbirds' nests, a beaver lodge, and the underground burrow of a meerkat family. Every page is bursting with engaging information, cool close-up photographs, and dramatic, highly detailed illustrations that bring the animal homes vividly to life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Taylor studied Environmental Sciences at Southampton University before becoming a science editor and writer at London's Natural History Museum. She has worked as an editor for a number of London publishers and is an award-winning author of more than 120 children's information books and encyclopedias on natural history, science and geography. These titles include: Animal Homes (Dorling Kindersley Inside Guides); Crocodiles, Turtles & Tortoises, Snakes (Lorenz); Cobras (Belitha); The Really Deadly and Dangerous Dinosaurs (Dorling Kindersley); Frogs, Snakes and their relatives (Oxford University Press). Barbara has won the following awards: The American Association of Physics Science Writing Award; The Geographical Association Gold Award; The English Association's 4-11 award in the Key Stage 2 Non-Fiction category; The Wow! Award from the National Literacy Association.

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There are animal architects, animal builders, and even animal squatters--meet them all in 3-D Close Up: Animal Homes. With four awesome pop-up cross sections, this fascinating new book gives young readers a chance to do in-depth investigations of some dazzling dwellings--in the trees, in the water, and underground--and meet the amazing animals that live inside. Kids will love exploring intricate insect cities, weaverbirds' nests, a beaver lodge, and the underground burrow of a meerkat family. Every page is bursting with engaging information, cool close-up photographs, and dramatic, highly detailed illustrations that bring the animal homes vividly to life.

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