I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. This is an excellent interactive non-fiction book for kids about the environment and habitat.

Whose Habitat is That? by Lucile Piketty is an adorable children’s picture book exploring animal habitats. There are five habitats, with an iconic critter hiding in each. Children are invited to guess the animal by following clues about the environment and the creature, and flaps open to reveal each beastie. The art is cute, and the language is engaging. Given the level of language, this isn't a book meant for really young kids unless you plan on explaining things further, though they would no doubt love the pop-ups!

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I am homeschooling my nearly four year old and the first theme we planned was coincidentally on animal habitats. This book couldn't have come at a better time. We loved reading through the habitat descriptions and figuring out who loved where. In its digital form this has won our hearts and proved to be a very useful educational tool. In its physical form, its going to be a stunner.

Highly recommended

Beautifully illustrated,very informative,a must have.
I like the guessing style of writing.Children will have fun reading this book

This was a super cute kids' book, and provided a lot of interesting facts about the various animals. The art within was beautiful! It was fun to see the pages begin with the clues, then give a lot continue on to reveal the actual animal (even though I would say it's a little hard to imagine on a screen, rather than physically). I would say this is not a book for young children, as the clues may be a bit too much (advanced) for them, unless a greater explanation is given.

Whose Habitat is That by Lucile Picketty is a fun, engaging children's book!

This books is really cool, let me be honest with ya! There is a fair bit of reading, so it's not your itsy, bitsy children's picture book. It gives you a fair amount of paragraphs and information to try to guess which animal the habitat belongs to! I really liked the format of it, to be honest. It's a fun, more engaging way to introduce habitats and the green environment to kids.

Overall, great job! I highly recommend using this as a learning tool!

Three out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

A fun educational book with vintage style illustrations. 4-7 year olds will enjoy this book and interactive pop outs. I only wish it was longer!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

A beautifully illustrated book packed full of interesting facts about animals and their habitats, After seeing this preview it’s one I can’t wait to get my hands on it in hard copy.

Framed as a series of questions to allow the reader to guess the animals, the answers are revealed through cleverly designed pull-tab pop-ups. Full adult supervision will be required with my two who can barely be trusted with felt flaps but it’s definitely one for them to grow into.

There are a couple of endangered animals and threatened habitats in here and it could be a good book to open up conversations about these issues. I have also learnt a thing or two that might benefit me on quiz night. One to look out for, for sure!

Thanks Quarto and

I really loved how informative this book was. It talks about 5 animals: the toucan, polar bear, mandrill monkey, hippo, and tiger. I especially appreciated that it mentioned some of them being endangered. It would have been nice to see more explanation on this, perhaps a glossary at the back. It gives you really fun facts about their habitat, body, and what foods they eat. I only wish that the illustrations were a bit more clear as to what they were trying to show. The illustrations weren't my favorite style and it wasn't always clear what they were trying to show; however, I think it may be a different story with the pop-up engineering. Overall, I really loved the facts they presented and I wish it were longer so I could learn about more animals!

This is a really lovely book. The illustrations are fab and the information in the text is presented as a series of clues for the reader to guess which animal lives in the habitat described. The challenge of reading the clues to work out the animal will give some less enthusiastic readers a purpose for reading the book.

I love the concept of this books, and I think animal-loving kids will, too! I suspect that I didn't get the full effect of the pop-ups from reading a digital ARC, so I can only comment on the art and text, not the tactile feel of the book. The art is colorful with touches of whimsy, and I suspect it will be even more lovely in book form. The text is lighthearted and full of interesting animal facts that beckon for the reader to turn the page.

I enjoyed the author's use of first-person from each animal's POV but I thought there was a missed opportunity to create a more distinctive voice for each animal. Each animal speaks in the straight-forward voice of the narrator in a nature documentary, but I think there could have been more variety and playfulness in the voice.

(I received a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.)

I love this and know the children I will too. I know it will inspire great writing from them too. Well set out and beautiful illustrations.

This fun, fact-filled book for children teaches them about unique animals from different continents. Some are endangered and some are well known. I received a digital copy but I'm sure the pop-up board version will be great. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my copy.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers in exchange for an honest review.

This is a lovely book for children about animals and their habitats. The book gives clues and information about the animal they are guessing about and then goes on to reveal the animal. I thought it was a lovely book with fantastic information and illustrations but could have included a few more animals within it.

Gorgeous illustrations (can’t wait to see the finished pop up!) paired with facts and clues about each animal. Lovely. Great addition for habitat and animal units and would be a lovely gift for animal lovers in general. #WhoseHabitatisThat #NetGalley

I loved the soft art style, so much, and I liked the layout as well.

I didn’t always immediately spot the animals—some took a few moments, which I appreciated. Only the Mandrill was a bit too vague for a child: even if you pointed out where the monkey is hiding, it wouldn’t be rewarding to a child because once you do spot the head it’s still not 100% clear what kind of animal it is. Recognizable, but not overt. Even so, the Mandrill scene is still good, and this is a small qualm.

I did wish the book included one or two more animals, but it’s a beautiful, subtly educational book, and I recommend it.

*I received a review copy from the publisher, all opinions my own

This book was super cute and fun to read with my son. He loved hearing the clues. The clues teach so many things about each animal. The illustrations are very well done and the hidden animals are quite a treat. I love how this book is interactive for the children. This book would be a great addition to a science course for younger students.

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Fun, fact filled storybook that allows young readers to guess what animal belongs in what habitat. I did think that the pictures could have been brighter and more realistic but a good book nonetheless.

3.5*

The content is very interesting and educational, however might not be engaging enough for the younger reader and might be better suited for school aged kids. The design doesn't strike me as something that could withstand curious preschoolers without being damaged and might be too childish for an older child so I'm not really sure who the intended audience is.

~ Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this title ~

Well this was a hard one to judge in an electronic preview file, especially when the thing claims to have a new kind of pop-up construction to wow the purchaser. I still don't think it's going to be the most wonderful purchase – children with the patience for the entirety of the text will not need the gimmick of the paper engineering involved, and people who do need the latter will struggle with the script. Also counting against things is that we only get five subjects, which doesn't exactly help us understand the world's nature.

Still, for what we do get in our lessons, we have a different diorama each time (jungle, ice floe, er, jungle again), and a chunk of text giving us all copious clues to the nature of the creature semi-hidden within. And I do mean a chunk of text – it's a page full of words that might as well be plain white. But with each one we get a weird spiral effect – I think you pull up on the centre of the page, which raises a cage-like paper construction, and I guess from the description you have a tab elsewhere that forces the creature in the cage to stand up, and reveal the 'answer' to all the written clues. Bearing in mind that all that might be wrong, I still think it will have some appeal (especially coming from what to me is a very trustworthy publisher), but I still think the masses of text do not equate with the novelty of the visual and pop-up side of things. The artwork is more for mood and look than realism, too. Two and a half stars.