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Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"Kids 4 to 8 will marvel at the brightly glowing creatures and other living organisms in this stunning, poetic, and science-based exploration of bioluminescence. When it's dark out, we need light to see. But what if your body could make its own light? From acclaimed author-illustrator Julia Kuo comes a remarkable picture book about bioluminescence, the light made from living things, and its many forms: fireflies and foxfire, fungi and glow-worms,...
4) Escargot
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Escargot is a beautiful French snail who only wants to be your favorite animal and get to the delicious salad at the end of the book, even if he has to try a carrot, which he hates.
Author
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Ladybugs are bright red beetles with little black spots. They're very helpful in the garden. What would life be like as a ladybug? This book let's readers experience a day in the life of one of these little red bugs. Accessible text makes reading easy and fun for emerging readers and young listeners. A Words to Know section helps children develop reading comprehension skills. Readers and young listeners will be drawn into the story by the bright,
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this whimsically illustrated insect album. Complete with an actual size chart and bug-o-meter listing fun facts about each bug,Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! will inform and entertain curious little bug lovers everywhere.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
What if green ants and army ants had a fight? Who do you think would win? This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts two ferocious insects. Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling pair before finally discovering the winner!This nonfiction series is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures, insects, and dinosaurs...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
What are as light as a feather and as old as the dinosaurs? Butterflies! With a lively text and vibrant paper-collage illustrations, award-winning author Bob Barner brings us a wonderful look at the amazing history of butterflies, and how their lives intersected with the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Readers will be fascinated to discover that when they stop to admire a beautiful butterfly, a dinosaur may have once done the same! This gorgeous,...
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Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This fresh and very funny non-fiction picture book shares lots of fascinating facts about spiders in an entirely captivating way. If I'm Trying to Love Spiders doesn't cure your spider phobia, it'll at least make you appreciate how amazing they are ... and laugh a lot as you learn about them."--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
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Description
Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close-up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle. When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene. They battle over, devour, hoard, and lay their eggs in the precious poop. Dung is food, drink, and fuel for new life—as crucial to these beetles as the beetles are to many habitats, including our own.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: A “fascinating” photo-filled book on these amazing arachnids! (Booklist)
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...
12) Swarm of bees
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A horde of bees and a young boy race around town wreaking havoc on the townspeople.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous--here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful...
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.
17) Shoo, Fly Guy!
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
A pet fly searches for his favorite brown, oozy, lumpy, smelly food.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Head-to-head combat! Astounding weapons! Extraordinary skills! Within the pages of this book, 18 awesomely real superheroes and supervillains come to life, each possessing powers far beyond the average insect. Meet the Malevolent Mimic, who wickedly disguises itself as a harmless pink orchid, only to shred unsuspecting butterflies! Or the Great Glue Shooter, who can shoot a smelly glue—from its face! Award-winning nonfiction author Kate Messner...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Do you love big Goliath beetles or delicate Monarch butterflies? Whatever your favorite insect, you'll soon be drawing these critters like a pro with the help of this fun book. Just follow the steps and you'll have some great-looking insects before you know it. Fact-filled descriptions accompany the drawings, so you can learn how honey bees dance or why cockroaches hiss. You'll also find tips on adding details to your drawing - like a juicy leaf for...