What are bugs and beetles? They are many kinds of insects or spiders. They are small animals. Some bugs can bite and others can sting. Lots of bugs can fly, and others crawl or hop or swim. Most bugs come out in the daytime, but some are seen at night.

In this magical story, two families live in the same place--a human family and a ladybug family! While a little girl describes each of her family members, illustrations reveal that the ladybug family likes to do all the same things that the human family likes to do. Early readers can follow the similarities between these two families as they share the space together. With delightful illustrations and large font, children will have an enjoyable reading...

This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about beetles and how to identify them.

Young children are natural problem solvers and always looking for answers, especially when it involves interesting insects. Guess What: Bright and Beautiful: Butterfly provides young curious readers with striking visual clues and simply written hints. Using the photos and text, readers rely on visual literacy skills, reading, and reasoning as they solve the insect mystery. Clearly written facts give readers a deeper understanding of how the butterfly...

A female butterfly lays eggs on a leaf to begin the butterfly life cycle. The eggs hatch into caterpillars, and caterpillars form chrysalises to change into butterflies. Students will follow a butterfly as it grows from an egg into an adult.

Ladybugs spend part of their life cycle as larva. Every day a ladybug larva eats about 30 tiny green insects called aphids. Young children will watch a ladybug go from egg to adult.

Mosquitoes can move their wings 450 to 600 times per second! That is the buzzing sound you hear when a mosquito is nearby. This book explains how mosquitoes live, how they bite humans and animals, and why they need to draw blood to survive.

Most people know what ants look like, but many of these people don't know much more about this common insect. Over 12,000 ant species live around the world, on every continent except Antarctica. Ants are complex and fascinating creatures. This book focuses on ant anatomy, explores the ant life cycle, and summarizes the members in an ant colony. Fun facts and colorful photographs help readers zoom in on this tiny insect and give them an appreciation...

Look out for these public enemy's-mosquitoes-as they are after blood! Mosquito females need a meal of blood before they can lay their eggs. They target humans and animals and zoom in for a feast. But these insects may do more harm than causing itchy welts. Mosquitoes can also pass along a number of serious and deadly diseases to those they bite. Humans have developed a number of ways to get rid of mosquitoes, from spreading chemicals to putting mosquito...

This is the unfolding story of a naive little creature who lived in ladybird village. Liz the ladybird loved her people, but the villagers experienced pain and disease. Saddened by the effects of witnessing distress her people endured, she sought to alleviate the suffering. Liz sets out on a solo journey to find in the world the cure to illness. Totally immersed in her magical unique journey, she discovers the dark Tasmanian caves where she meets...