First Book of Bugs

The world of bugs and insects is a world close to a child's feet wherever he walks, close to his eyes wherever he looks, and close to his ears wherever he listens—a fascinating world inhabited by nine-tenths of all the living creatures on this earth—and a world scaled to child-size.

Here is a book chock-full of creatures, of which some are already familiar to any boy or girl, others he has yet to meet—crickets, moths, spiders, ants, daddy-long-legs, praying mantises, mosquitoes and many others.

Here you can read all about what bugs like to eat, where they can be found, what they do for a living, who their enemies are and what they do about them, how they build their homes, and what their young look like at different stages. Here is told which bugs live alone, which bugs live in families in cities of their own making; which bugs bite us, and which bugs feed us honey, or supply us with silk for our dresses.

Many, many bugs are here—bugs which hop, swoop, skitter and skate, scurry, slide—jumpers, creepers, crawlers and flyers; bugs which zoom, buzz, sing, chirp, and bugs which make no noise at all. Soft brown feathery moths, hard black brittle beetles, polka-dotted ladybugs, and bugs which look like bits of walking twigs... they're all inside The First Book of Bugs in three bright, chirruping colors, in chapters just long enough to delight.

*Publisher recommendation: Grades 3-5 and Ages up to 10.

—from the dust jacket