Lester’s clever text accompanies delightful illustrations of the children’s play in different locations around the house and yard, representing each new habitat they create with their animals. Following each new creation in the children’s story is a colorful double page spread with creature-crammed illustrations of a plethora of animals from that habitat. While the children build a snowman in the land of ice, Lester creates an animal colony on an icecap. The children encounter a prehistoric swamp full of dinosaurs and can also be found in other various locations such as the jungle, the ocean, the African plains, on a farm, or in the moonlit bush in Australia.