Whose House Is That?

by Stan Tekiela

Overview

Learn About Nature’s Amazing Animal Architects!

Beaver dams, bird nests, spider webs—the animal kingdom is filled with expert builders that construct spectacular homes. How much do you know about them? Can you identify a critter based on where it lives? Find out in this fun and interactive picture book by award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela.

Study a photo of an animal’s house, and examine a clue about the creature that built it. Analyze the information, and formulate a guess as to “Whose house is that?” Then turn the page to discover the answer.

You’ll learn facts about the innovative birds, bugs, mammals, and more that build nature’s most astonishing homes. Whose House Is That? features Stan’s stunning wildlife photography and expert information that children, adults, and educators will appreciate. The book is an entertaining introduction to a variety of animal species found in North America. With every reading, kids will become more familiar with animals and the natural world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647550752
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/06/2021
Series:	Wildlife Picture Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	21 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Naturalist, wildlife photographer and writer Stan Tekiela is the author of more than 175 field guides, nature books, children’s books, wildlife audio CDs, puzzles and playing cards, presenting many species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, trees, wildflowers and cacti in the United States. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural History from the University of Minnesota and as an active professional naturalist for more than 25 years, Stan studies and photographs wildlife throughout the United States and Canada. He has received various national and regional awards for his books and photographs. Also a well-known columnist and radio personality, his syndicated column appears in more than 25 newspapers and his wildlife programs are broadcast on a number of Midwest radio stations.

Read an Excerpt

This home is almost as large as a bedroom, but it’s perched high up in a tree. It’s made of sticks and branches, and it is where our national symbol lives.

Whose house is that?

It’s an eagle!

The Bald Eagle is the national symbol of the United States. An eagle nest is called an aerie. Eagles use their nest over and over for many years, adding new sticks to the nest every year. Some nests get so large that they can be ten feet tall and weigh a thousand pounds. That’s about the weight of a horse.

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This home is larger than a football. It hangs in trees, on the side of your house, or under a deck. This home holds hundreds, even thousands, of creatures inside.

Whose house is that?

It’s a wasp!

The Bald Face Hornet doesn’t have a bald face and actually isn’t a hornet. It has a white face and dark eyes, which makes it look bald. It is a kind of wasp. The home is called a nest. The nest looks like it’s made of paper, but it’s made from tiny pieces of chewed-up tree wood and the Bald Face Hornet’s saliva.

Table of Contents

Featured Animals:

• Robin
• Eagle
• Wasp
• Butterfly
• Beaver
• Bear
• Spider
• Prairie Dog
• Ant
• Loon
• Sunfish
• Rabbit

Editorial Reviews

2021-02-09
Readers can now add animal houses to Butts (2018) and Tracks (2020) as ways to identify the presence of various animals.

With a format similar to that in Tekiela’s three previous works (Whose Track Is That?, 2020, etc.), the book presents readers with a double-page spread featuring some clues, the titular question, and an up-close photo of an animal home. After guessing, children can turn the page to find the answer, some facts, and a couple additional photos of the animal. Some clues are giveaways while others are more difficult: A small, round home the right size for “a mommy and her eggs” is a robin’s nest; and a warm, dry underground home continually occupied for up to six winter months is a black bear’s den. But some pictures may lead readers astray. While Tekiela writes of a home that “looks…like a mound of dirt…[that] also serves as a lookout,” his picture is an overhead view that looks like a hole. And savvy readers may argue with the author’s calling a monarch’s chrysalis and a garden spider’s web “houses.” The other featured North American animals are bald eagle, bald-faced hornet, American beaver, prairie dog, sunfish, cottontail rabbit, and common ant. Pronunciation and definitions are provided in the text. Tekiela’s macro images of the insects are standouts among the intriguing photos.

More tools for young naturalists’ outdoor adventures. (Informational picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews