With informative captions, a glossary and an index, this book provides facts about where different animals live and how they build their homes.

The split page format of the book helps to demonstrate time-lapse scene changes.

Newly-constructed animal homes become fully-occupied nests and dams before childrens' eyes.

This book should help young readers to observe, explore and ask questions about living things and to begin to understand simple natural scientific processes.

It explains that animals move, feed, grow, build their own homes and reproduce.