"Some animals live in water. Some animals live on land. The land that animals live on can be very different. What makes a place the right home for an animal? Let's investigate habitats!" -- Provided by publisher.

Explains how animals survive in difficult conditions. Describes adaptations to Arctic and Antarctic, deep ocean, cave, and high mountain habitats." -- Provided by publisher.

Simple words and exquisite pictures combine to hold young children spellbound with page after page of fantastic animals. --Back cover.

"On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests. Fish and other animals that depended on the kelp were lost, too. But when people protected the sea otters with new laws,...

A scheming raccoon tricks a group of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food by invading the new suburban sprawl that arrived while they were hibernating.