Product Description: Find out about 50 of the most common insects found in Britain today. Full descriptions of the insects, along with their scientific name, size, family and habitat, will help you to recognise which insect is which. Beautiful, large colour photographs will help make identification easy...read more

Product Description: Kids can build their own cool, customizable black widow spider model with this educational hardcover book and 3D wood model kit from IncrediBuilds.Frequently mistaken for insects, the spider—an arachnid—is often misunderstood. This new book explores the spider’s important role in our ecosystem, along with fun facts about different species, their anatomy, the history of spiders in culture, and much more...read more

Product Description: Find out all about the tiny tickly creatures that live all around us. Explore the world of woodlice, count how many legs a millipede has, discover how spiders spin their silky webs and then continue the journey with your pop and play minibeast model! Children can find out all about life cycles, how to identify bugs and what makes each one special...read more

Product Description: Welcome to Bug Camp, where every day is full of crawly, fascinating adventure! Grab your nets, because catching crickets and butterflies is just the beginning.Every summer, entomologists around the world offer bug camps to kids, hoping to share the wonders of insects with the next generation of explorers and creative thinkers...read more

Part of a series of hilarious nonfiction about disgusting creatures, this book looks at the spider. It covers such topics as the spider's habitats (pretty much everywhere but outer space), the silk it spins (it can trap prey and makes a nifty bowtie), and its parenting practice (female spiders carry around their eggs in a silk purse). Although silly and off-the-wall, The Spider contains factual information that will both amuse and teach at the same time.

Product Description: These adorable, interactive board books will enchant your littlest readers with colorful illustrations and funny sliding tabs that reveal lots of charming surprises. There are animals hiding on every page―can children find them? Grasshopper hops, snail slithers, and more in this fun hide and seek book...read more

Product Description: Explore insects from creepiest crawliest spider to the most stunning butterfly.My Encyclopedia of Insects and Bugs offers insight into the world of the tiny creatures that surrounds us. Kids (Ages 7-9) will also meet the people whose livelihoods-and lives-depend upon the insect world...read more

How does an acorn grow into a tree? What does a baby sea horse eat? Discover the amazing stages of different life cycles and learn all about your favourite species with this stunning series.

What would happen if there were no bees in this world? It would be a disaster!This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.Without bees, we would, of course, have no honey. But we'd also lose a lot of other foods and useful products like cotton produced by plants that bees pollinate. Around half the fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets would disappear! Not only that, we would also lose the animals that eat these plants, and the animals that eat those animals! Some people are scared of bees, but there's rarely any need to be. Bees will sting in self-defence, but usually they don't disturb humans. Yet we need them. As far as important species are concerned, bees are at the top of the list - you really wouldn't want to live without them!

Product Description: Which creature is the deadliest? Is it the insect that bites, the ostrich that kicks, the snake that squeezes, or the shrew that paralyzes? Is it the most venomous, the most poisonous, or the one that infects its victims with a fatal disease? Fascinating facts and spectacular illustrations will inspire young readers to choose which creature they think is the deadliest in this newest picture book collaboration between Guiberson and Spirin...read more

Even the cleanest house is a habitat for micromonsters. But dont worry, most are harmless. This revealing volume takes readers on a meet-and-greet tour of the tiniest organisms that live in peoples homes. Full-page photographs of alien-like creatures in high-magnification will amaze, while Monstrous Data tables and Gross or What? boxes both astound and educate. Future biologists will come to appreciate that life is all around, no matter how many times we wash, but there are things we can do to keep ourselves safe from the more harmful micromonsters.

Product Description: There are thousands of species of bees in the world. How can you tell if a bee is a bumblebee? Look at the ground. These creatures build their nests under or near the ground, filling in holes or hiding in brush so as to stay out of the way of unfriendly predators...read more

Product Description: What is the ground beetle, and why is it important to its ecosystem? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more through this information-rich title, which is designed to support elementary science curriculum. Age-appropriate language guides readers through important science concepts, such as understanding this insects life cycle, behavior, physical characteristics, and arms readers with the tool to identify ground beetles in nature...read more

Product Description: One of the easiest ways to tell what animal group a bug belongs in is to count its legs. However, there are many other interesting bug body parts that give clues as to what kind of living thing it is. Readers learn all about insects and arachnids in a fun format in which theyre shown a close-up photograph and given a few facts about the pictured creature...read more

Product Description: If theres one bug known for living underground, its cicadas. Some species of cicadas spend most of their lives below ground, only emerging once every 13 to 17 years. In this volume, readers go underground to learn more about this unique insect...read more