#593 of 1001 · March 16, 2022

What does your home look like? Does it shelter you and keep you safe? Does it have just the right amount of space for you and the ones you love? Does it reflect your identity? Imagine you are an animal. What might your home look like now? For a gorgeous exploration of the spaces that various members of the animal kingdom call home, I highly recommend Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs by Linda Ashman and @lauren_stringer_artist_author. Ashman employs rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter, taking the reader through places they may not have thought of as home before: a sand dune, a mound of snow, a rocky cliff, a tidal pool. Stringer provides warm acrylic paintings of animals cozily tucked into their natural habitats; the soft lines and sinuous edges of each vignette illustration create a loose, organic visual aesthetic. #castle #castles #cave #caves #honeycomb #animal #animals #book #books #childrensbooks #beautifulbooks #picturebook #picturebooks #picturebookillustration #picturebookillustrations #picturebookart #childrensbookillustration #childrensliterature #illustration #kidlit #kidsbooks #bookworm #booklover #booklovers #bibliophile #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #instabook #instabooks