From Atlas Moth to Zorapteran, look under rocks and high up in the trees for squirmy, six-legged squishies!
Toddlers and kids of all ages will love learning their ABCs with this curious collection of wings, antenna and pinchers! Get ready to meet some creepy-crawly creatures!
This imaginative alphabet picture book takes you from the dirt to the trees to learn your ABCs with a sparkling collection of beautiful beetles, charming caterpillars and marvellous moths. The delightful illustrations and specific particulars are guaranteed to make kids of all ages more curious about the amazing world of insects!
From Atlas Moth to Zorapteran, look under rocks and high up in the trees for squirmy, six-legged squishies!
Toddlers and kids of all ages will love learning their ABCs with this curious collection of wings, antenna and pinchers! Get ready to meet some creepy-crawly creatures!
This imaginative alphabet picture book takes you from the dirt to the trees to learn your ABCs with a sparkling collection of beautiful beetles, charming caterpillars and marvellous moths. The delightful illustrations and specific particulars are guaranteed to make kids of all ages more curious about the amazing world of insects!
26 BUGS: An Incredible Insect ABC! by Craig Macnaughton (Learning Things presents)
Insects are everywhere in this fun insect ABC, 26 Bugs by Craig Macnaughton. The book opens with a challenge—“find them all, if you dare.” I love the added task to look for Fernie the Fairyfly, who is hiding in every spread. Colorful illustrations show a variety of creepy crawlers in their natural habitat, from Atlas Moth and Brazilian Treehopper to Mayfly and Queen Bee to Violin Beetle and Yellow Dung Fly. Letters X and Z, often challenging for alphabet books, have fun names that remind me of dinosaur names. Kids will love them: Xystodesmid and Zorapteran!
Each page follows a pattern—the letter, the name of the insect with some interesting detail about it, detailed illustration of the insect in its habitat, and a fact box with the scientific name and additional facts. For example: “G is for Gum-leaf Skeletoniser. Wearing its old heads as a hat.” In the fact box: “Uraba Lugens. The ‘Mad Hatterpillar’ keeps its molted heads to scare off predators.” The illustration shows a bug that looks like a furry yellowish caterpillar with a stack of five progressively smaller heads mounted one atop the other. Odd and goofy and intriguing. My favorite is the letter P. It shows a creepy spider with four eyes and a fat body of swirling rainbow color sitting on a forest log. “P is for Peacock Spider. Impresses with a song and a dance! Maratus. Vibrations from their legs attract females during mating season.” Cool details! My only wish is that the fact boxes, which include the scientific/Latin name for each insect, included a pronunciation for each, as in provided for the letters X and Z.
One final, cool detail to note: on an opening page all 26 letters of the alphabet are listed, “cut” from the illustration on that letter’s corresponding page. Each letter includes the insect’s eyes. A fun addition to this incredible insect collection! This title is the perfect addition to the other alphabet books by the author: A, B, Sea and Birds of a Letter.