I received an arc of this book from NetGalley for an honest review. This book does not work as a digital copy, but kids love interactive picture books and will enjoy the print version.

I don't think this book works well in a digital format, but I hope the more interactive elements play better in the printed version.

This was good, not great. I had a little bit of a formatting issue. But, overall it was okay. Maybe super young children would enjoy it.

Animal Habitats: Search and Find by Sarah Dennis and Sam Hutchinson is currently scheduled for release on August 27 2019. This book can introduce young nature lovers to the wonders of ecology as they explore the earth's most amazing and unusual regions--colorful coral reefs, frozen polar seas, dense, leafy rain forests, and more--and meet the unique animals that call them home. In a world filled with marvelous creatures great and small, astounding discoveries can be found in Sarah Dennis's enchanting, intricate cut-paper illustrations. Readers learn how food webs sustain incredible birds, beasts, fishes, and insects and the ingenious ways that plants and animals adapt to the varied ecosystems of our diverse planet.

Animal Habitats: Search and Find gives young readers a good understanding of the food chain and web ideas, and how they relate to specific animal habitats. The text is accessible, and the illustrations by Sarah Dennis are well done- adding a great deal to the understanding of the information. I have to admit that I was hoping for more, some additional seek and finds or more complex versions, but that it my personal preference. I will admit there were some viewing issues with the digital galley I was reading through Netgalley, so maybe I missed something along the way- although the page count did match up. This book is good for what it is, but I was hoping it would be so much more than good.

L'idea mi piaceva moltissimo: una rappresentazione dei molteplici habitat sul pianeta Terra, in tutta la loro sfolgorante varietà, realizzata con la tecnica degli intagli su carta.

Purtroppo la realizzazione non è all'altezza: ho trovato povere le rappresentazioni, e scarsissime le spiegazioni che annotano i vari ambienti.

Un'occasione perduta.

Not very informative. Too brief and vague with illustrations that were difficult to understand at first glance.

This book lays out animal habitats simply with great use of colour. It would be a great book for elementary students who are beginning to learn about animal habitats.

Animal Habitats is a search and find activity book aimed at young people (and their caregivers). Due out 27th Aug 2019 from Princeton Architectural Press, it's 32 pages and will be available in hardback format.

Each of the habitat sections (coral reef, desert, mountain, polar, rain forest, savannah, woodland) has an introductory basic info page with a short fact sidebar, silhouette papercut of different flora and fauna, color coded food chains for each biome, and other facts.

The information in the book is factually correct (as far as I could check) and the interrelationships of the plants and animals in each system are graphically interconnected. The paper-cutout monochromatic illustrations were an interesting choice, but provide a clear and easy to follow link between the species who produce food and which are predated in turn by higher level organisms.

The graphics in the early eARC I received for review purposes were pixelated, but this will clearly not be a problem in the physical copy of the book.

This would make a good support book for a classroom unit on different biomes, a homeschooling resource book, a fine library book, or a gift for a youngster.

Four stars (the graphics issues will not be a factor in the finished book).

I read this book with my 7 year-old, but I'm not sure what age the target audience is. It's a seek-and-find book but it has fairly sophisticated vocabulary with topics like tertiary consumers. The seek-and-find aspect is a little different, too, with the animals in each food web illustrated in one color in a tightly packed collage of shapes. It is in limited color -- black and white text with organisms shown in teal or dark blue, yellow and salmon.

Each section covers a different ecosystem -- coral reefs, savannahs, woodlands, rain forests, deserts, mountains and polar regions. Each ecosystem has a graphic showing what organisms are the producers, primary consumers, and secondary and tertiary consumers in the food chain. Each category of organism is in a different color. For example, in the rain forest the producers are fruit trees and flowering plants in yellow, primary consumers are things like parrots and insects and tamarin monkeys in teal, and secondary and tertiary consumers are things like jaguars and tree frogs in salmon. There are a couple of paragraphs of information about the rain forest, and then there's a stylized drawing of a rain forest in teal where you find the shape of each of the organisms hidden in the picture.

My daughter enjoyed the challenge of identifying the organisms by their shapes, which is how she chose to read the book. She was excited to see the silhouette of a narwhal and then looked to see what other animals, plants, etc. she could recognize just by their silhouettes. I plan on reading it again with her and focusing on the habitat and food chain aspects of it, but it was a lot in one read for a first grader since we tend to talk a lot about each page when we read books like this.

I'm not sure how well this book will keep a child's interest, but it has interesting information that's presented in a novel format. It would work well to accompany a unit on food chains and ecosystems.

My rating system:
1 = hated it
2 = it was okay
3 = liked it
4 = really liked it
5 = love it, plan to purchase, and/or would buy it again if it was lost

I read a temporary digital ARC of the book for the purpose of review.

I want to thank #netgalley for giving me a copy of #AnimalHabitats to review. I love the idea of the book. The main content kids about food chains in different habitats. The information on each page is great and the challenge for the kids is good, but in my digital copy it was too difficult to find the animals. I hope in the real book it will be easier or more clear.

The combination of a search-and-find game with fairly detailed learning about food chains is a great idea! I can see kids really enjoying the reading experience. The search-and-find pages are die cut stencils which will look beautiful. Each different habitat includes a food chain chart, the search and find, and a question that will challenge readers to apply what they have learned.

I think a better title for this book would be "Animal Food Chains," as that is the main focus.

I loved the simplicity and detail of Animal Habitats. The descriptions and vocabulary were phenomenal and perfect for my gifted learners. The simplicity of the illustrations made them incredibly engaging. The descriptions of each habitat and food chain cycle was perfect. I loved this book and can't wait to use it in my classroom.

While I understand what this book is trying to do, I don't think it quite works.

This is a non-fiction title about the food web. Various food chains that are found in different habitats are covered, illustrated with flat-coloured pictures. Each food chain is introduced with depictions of the various producers and consumers, along with a bit of information. Each habitat also poses a question (and the answers are found at the end). Then, the reader is presented with a monochromatic scene that contains all the producers and consumers in that habitat, and tasked with finding them.

On the surface, it seems like a decent premise. But I can't really comment on how well parts of it work because I read a digital ARC of questionable quality, rendering the task of finding the creatures within their pixellated, artifact-riddled habitats next to impossible. I think it might be a bit tricky, anyway, since those scenes are all monochromatic, with zero differences in colours to set off the different animals.

The writing is a bit repetitive. With the exception of the basic information about the habitat and the question, the text is nearly the same. Each page follows the same format. There are also some parts of the writing that are a little clumsy, like when the book states that "plants, flowers, and pine trees thrive on the mountainside". Wait... flowers and pine trees aren't plants?

The basic information presented may be accurate, but the whole search-and-find aspect seems rather unnecessary and perhaps a little age-inappropriate. The book introduces words like "tertiary", "adaptation", "migrate", and "canopy" with no explanation, so presumably it's aimed at readers who are old enough to know those words. Would kids that age really want to do a search-and-find puzzle, or would they just want to get on with reading the book? (I think I probably would've skipped over those particular pages, especially since, once you find the animals the first time, you don't really need to find them again).

I wish I could comment better on the illustrations, but I can't really see them that well. They're supposedly done with cut paper, but all I can really make out are globs of pixels. As for the rest of the book, it's okay... but not necessarily something I'd recommend.

Short and straight to the point. I think it'll be liked by children since it's interactive (there are questions in each habitat) and the drawings are nice and can be colored too if the kids felt like it.

Only criticism is that it would have been nice if each habitat were drawn in the background in each explanation since it felt a bit empty.

Thank you for providing a digital copy for an honest review.

While the book had a lot of information and some kids would find it fun to search for the different animals, the colors were hard on the eyes. The page with the salmon color was starting to give me a headache before I could even find 2 animals.