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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The garden was old and forgotten, with a tumbledown wall and a one-wheeled barrow. So they moved in one by one, by one. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an eclectic array of insects, from a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, to a roly-poly bug who loves to roll, to a cricket who dreams of grand adventures. Come peek between the blades of grass at the secret lives of a garden's tiniest inhabitants....
Author
Series
Battle bugs volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sneak attack! An eerie glow from his insect encyclopedia alerts Max Darwin to return to Bug Island. Commander Barton needs Max's help to build a defensive watchtower fortress. In no time, however, chameleons and geckos lay siege to the cliffs around the new camp. The lizards want to destroy the fortress--and take over Bug Island once and for all!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Starscape/A Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After Lud Mellon is bitten by a bevy of bizarre bugs, he has fun crawling up walls, drooling on his food, and rolling around in garbage but when his father calls in the exterminators, Lud must figure out how to stop his transformation before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Tortuga Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, music ; 22 x 27 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A fly uses a combination of Spanish and jazz scat to ask a sloth, a monkey, and a mackaw to transport his band to a tropical concert site, and then to talk sense to an anteater who interrupts their performance. Includes author's note on how language, rhythm, color, and life are depicted in the book.
145) Pond scum
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Oliver enjoys tormenting insects, but his life takes a turn when his family moves into an old house which an assortment of animals doesn't want to vacate.
Author
Series
Hello reader volume level 1
Language
English
Description
Despite their different sizes, a boy, a bear, and a bug enjoy themselves as they go to school, take a ride in a wagon, fly a kite, and paint a picture.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Greta Divawing, butterfly star of the Scarab Beetle Theatre, goes missing a week before the opening performance of "Bugliacci, " Joey Fly is called in to investigate her puzzling disappearance.
148) Jitterbug
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[English language edition].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ladybugs are so cute, small, and fly so gently. Not so for the "Jitterbug"--Lady B. Marie! Her heart beats for rock 'n' roll. Instead of going flower to flower, Jitterbug strums her electric guitar and belts out melodies. But Papa, Ms. Snail, Mr. Grasshopper and many of the meadow dwellers aren't so sure they're fans. Will Jitterbug give up? Told in rollicking rhyme, this story reminds us all to be our own beetle.
149) Beetle boy
Author
Series
Beetle trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages : Illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Darkus Cuttle has taken care of his father ever since his mother died, but one day his father vanished from a locked vault at the Natural History Museum, and now he lives with his eccentric uncle--but one day he finds a large and unusually intelligent and self-aware beetle, and soon he and his two friends are caught up in a struggle to protect an intelligent super species of beetles.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 14 cm
Language
English
Description
"A happy kitten playing with a kite accidentally injures a little bug! The kitten wants to know what will make the little friend feel better: to march like the ants or fly like the birds? Nothing seems to work until finally the kitten asks and the little friend shares the answer--a kiss! Little ones will love the whimsy and warmth of this sweet story as one small creature learns to care for an even smaller little friend." -- Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Ruth Krauss, the celebrated children's book author of The Carrot Seed and A Hole Is to Dig, comes this never-before-published book of witty one-liners--brought to life by Geisel Honor-winning artist Sergio Ruzzier. Dance with a leaf. Jump like a raindrop. Sit in the sun and shine. Not since A Hole Is to Dig and Open House for Butterflies have we seen such electric and playful words on a page. This imaginative story from Ruth Krauss--one of the...
152) A spider named Itsy
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Why did Itsy Bitsy make his famous journey? With a dose of warmth and whimsy, Steve Light's remarkable, intricate artwork spins a backstory of unexpected friendship. Itsy Bitsy sits at home, drinking tea, all alone... Everyone knows the rhyme "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." We know about the climb up the waterspout, the washout, the return of the sun, and the determined climb back up the spout - again. Generations of children have sung this beloved verse...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a tiny green bug who loves to read and who lives behind the chalkboard in Mr. Wang's fourth-grade classroom with his parents, his 53 brothers and sisters, and his Aunt Min. But when Aunt Min goes to the school library and never returns, Eddie leaves the comfort of his home for the first time and begins the dangerous trek through the elementary school. After dodging running sneakers, falling books, and terrifying spiders, Eddie reaches the...
Series
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (approximately 2 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Life forms of animals and animal oddities: This program answers questions such as "What are protozoa?" "Are our teeth the same as animals teeth?" "How do earthworms eat?" "What is an echidna?"
Animals & arachnids: This program answers questions such as "Why do dogs bury bones?" "Does a cow have four stomachs?" "What is a spiders web made of?" "Are Tarantulas poisonous?"
Mammals: This program answers questions such as "Why are whales considered mammals?"...
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 video media player (40 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
The caterpillar and the polliwog: Two new friends discover, independently, that spring is the time to turn into "something else."
The ugly duckling: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.
Bugs! bugs! bugs!: With whimsical verse and brightly colored collages, everyone's favorite bugs come to life. Backyard entomologists will buzz with excitement!
Planting a rainbow: A mother...
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