From tongue-in-cheek sonnets to lyrical free verse, this collection of poems explores the many kinds of home animals make for themselves. Readers will meet better-known animal dwellings like the spiderweb and the bird's nest as well as the more unusual: a fawn's thicket bed, a hare's bowl-shaped ground nest, and a sea anemone's ever-changing tide pool home. Readers experience different habitats—desert, grasslands, shoreline, wetland, and woodland—and the animals that build their dwellings there.
Jamie Hogan's expressive line art complements this clever anthology. Back matter provides more information on the highlighted habitats, poetic forms, and the writing process.
- ISBN10 1282600400
- ISBN13 9781282600409
- Publish Date 1 February 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 November 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing
- Format eBook
- Pages 474
- Language English