Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eric Carle and fourteen other beloved children's book artists illustrate their favorite bugs and explain why they love them. Everybody has a favorite bug. Some like shiny, colorful beetles or busy ants or soft pale moths best. Others prefer spindly walking sticks or fuzzy caterpillars that turn into bright butterflies. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, 15 children's book artists share their favorite bugs and why they love...
3) Crickwing
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutter ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them.
Author
Language
English
Description
Close-up photos and lightly-rhymed declarative verse capture a bug's-eye view of nature and encourage children to experience the world outside their doors with care and openness. Includes insect facts.
"Step gently out, be still and look closely at the world just outside your door-you are sure to be amazed by the tiny creatures you can find. You might see a cricket leap and land, a moth open her wings, a spider walking across the air, or maybe even...
10) Bugs!
Author
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations of a variety of insects introduce the numbers one through five.
15) The tiny baker
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every day, insect customers line up to dine at the tiny baker's tearoom, but when her ladybug cooks fly away, upending the pristine kitchen, the baker learns an important lesson about friendship.
16) Disgusting bugs
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes ten disgusting bugs including the chigger, the tick, and the chigoe, and explains what makes them so unappealing.
18) The fly
Author
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the common housefly and its fondness for all things revolting. The author takes obvious joy in detailing the housefly's typical meals, which include such savoury delights as garbage-juice soup, dirty diapers, and 'doggie doo'. The Muscidae family (to which the housefly belongs) is depicted with Mom, Dad, a younger sibling, and a slouchy adolescent fly. Includes graphic illustrations and fact-filled text that traces its extensive history...
19) Insects
Author
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book introduces beginning readers to the characteristics of insects. Includes picture glossary and index."--
20) Bug patrol
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Captain Bob of the Bug Patrol keeps a watchful eye on bugs everywhere.