Habitat Spy

By Sylvan Dell Publishing
Price $8.95
Age 3 - 8 yrs.

Habitat Spy is charmingly written and illustrated, engaging your child on several levels. Every pair of pages opens into a large illustration of a different North American habitat, bustling with the creatures that live there. The text, in rhyming narrative, invites the reader to visually locate each of several living things pictured - plants, invertebrates, birds, mammals, insects, and more. You'll visit 13 different habitats in all - from desert to forest, cave to open meadow, you'll journey across vistas, plains, and swamps, finding, identifying, and naming dozens of creatures. The 'For Creative Minds' educational section at the back of the book does a fantastic job of delving into what's in a habitat, the adaptations, basic needs, and classifications of the living things found there, as well as the nature of food chains (predators, prey, carnivores, herbivores, and more). In Habitat Spy, you have a most enjoyable read that leads to very active young brains - pure fun all the way!