People want their homes to be comfortable and secure, a place where they can happily raise their children and one day retire. It's no different in the animal world! 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, squirrels' treetop dreys, 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.