What If You Had an Animal Home!? - What If You Had... ? by Sandra Markle

About the Book

"What if you woke up one morning and discovered you were living inside a wild animal's home instead of your own? How would that change your daily life? [This book] is the next [volume] in Sandra Markle's ... What If You Had? series. If you had a honeybee's home, you'd always have room service. If you had a meerkat's home, you'd play hide-and-seek for hours. And a hermit crab's home would follow you wherever you go. The animal kingdom has tons of amazing homes, but yours is pretty great, too"--

Book Synopsis

If you could have any animal's home, whose would you choose?

What if you woke up one morning and discovered you were living inside a wild animal's home instead of your own? How would that change your daily life? What If You Had an Animal Home!? is the next imaginative book in Sandra Markle's popular What If You Had...? series.

If you had a honeybee's home, you'd always have room service. If you had a meerkat's home, you'd play hide-and-seek for hours. And a hermit crab's home would follow you wherever you go! The animal kingdom has tons of amazing homes, but yours is pretty great, too!

Discover what your life would be like if you had these special animal homes -- and find out why your home is just right for you!

Review Quotes

Praise for What If You Had an Animal Home!?:

"Markle invites children to picture themselves living in the homes of 11 wild animals. ...Another playful imagination stretcher."--Kirkus Reviews

Praise for What If You Had Animal Teeth!?:

"Will surely satisfy animal enthusiasts and trivia lovers, and dentists and parents will appreciate the mention of ways to keep human chompers healthy." -- Booklist

"It's a hilarious and instructive combination that makes it clear just how variable and individually suited this aspect of anatomy is, and the art takes the concept and runs -- well, chomps -- with it." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"Delightful illustrations and factual presentations of animals make this a valuable purchase for early elementary classrooms and libraries." -- Library Media Connection

"The lively text, photographs, and quirky illustrations charmingly tell a great tooth story." -- International Reading Association

About the Author

Sandra Markle is the author of more than 200 children's books, which have won numerous awards, including a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, IRA/CBC Children's Choice, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Books for Children, NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended, and ALA Notable Books for Children. She lives in Florida.
Howard McWilliam is the illustrator of Dinosaur Christmas by Jerry Pallotta, I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll, When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore, and the What If You Had...? series by Sandra Markle. He lives in Kingston Upon Thames, England, with his wife, Rebecca. For more information, go to howardmcwilliam.com.