Insects Books

This is a beautiful and vibrant book that needs to be in every preschoolers library.

I saw this in our local bookstore and had to have it. My instincts were right, because my 19 month-old can't get enough of the beautiful illustrations and the story is just simple enough so that my four year-old can read it to her sister before bedtime. The colors used are vibrant and interesting, and the pop-up butterfly at the end is a great surprise for the young ones. Great for pre-schoolers.

This little gem of a book is a reader not a looker. It is very important reading for those just beginning butterfly gardening. It would seem as though Mathew Tekulsky has answered every question with a short to the point yet informative answer.

Chapters cover understanding gardening for butterflies by understanding butterflies. Mr. Tekulsky instructs us on all aspects of ow to get started, including which plants are needed for both larval food and nectar food.

There is a chapter devoted to activities which include photography hints, things to do with kids and building hibernation boxes.

Extensive appendices list 50 Common butterflies, and where they are found and what plants they like. There are also lists of where to obtain butterflies and entomological equipment, as well as, butterfly organizations and recommended further readings.

Oh! This book is really great, i have read it when I was in high school and it really have made results when I built my green house.

Beautiful book with terrific color photography. For quick reference, there are descriptive charts listing food and nectar plants with perspective butterflies and/or larvae. The appendices is filled with useful information such as how to photograph butterflies, seed and plant sources, and more. An illuminating book for reading and learning.

This is a buy now book for the southern gardener who wants to encourage flocks of butterflies into their garden or who wants to know more about native plants with a butterflies view in mind. The author has extensive color pictures of the butterflies and their habits as well as cultural information about the food plants of the larvae and nector plants of the adults. She has taken beautiful pictures of the plants, butterflies, catapillar, and egg stage of almost all the butterflies she details. The information is invaluable. Many butterfly plants are so common as to be considered weeds well many of them are weeds but if you want to grow them and collect them it helps to have a color picture to identify them and cultural information about growing them. She includes layouts for garden design in each of the southern zones covered and gives alot of good organic practical gardening advice. I especially like the part where she shares her experience on how to take pictures of butterflies. Great stuff for someone who does not know alot about SLR cameras and wants an insiders advice on how to take pictures of butterflies. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gardening with native trees and plants as well as adapted non natives who wishes to encourage butterflies in their garden.

My daughter received the video to this book when she was 10 months old. I so fell in love with the Buzby/Elvis character that when I found the book at a 2nd hand shop I had to get it.

Although the video is still a little advanced for my daughter, the book isn't. I have put actions to "pray", "he covered his ears and flew away" and she loves to point her finger and say "let my friends go!". My daughter is now 20 months old it is still one of her top choices for reading.

I am sure the message of why God made rules is going to be very helpful to her as she gets older. This book is definitely a winner.

My little boy is 22 months old and he LOVES this book. Every night he asked for "Hermie" and he'll go find Buzby or another Hermie book out of a stack of books and bring it to me. I bought him the DVD but it's still just a little to old for him to truly enjoy it but he LOVES LOVES LOVES this book. It's so fun to read to him to there's just enough characters to keep useing funny voices but not SO many you get them mixed up. I can't write enough good things about this book. It's a must buy for any kid in my personal opinion.

Most books that use some sort of gimmick on their cover usually have used up their entire budget on the cover and the pages of content inside are generally pretty average. Not so with Buzz, an entertaining read that will teach you stuff too! For those only seeing this book online the cover has three press me buttons, one is a cricket, one a bee and one a mosquito. Pressing on these buttons the book will make the sound of these insects. Interestingly the image on Amazon's product page has only one press me button and that's a fly a button which isn't on the Australian/UK version so maybe the American market has slightly different less complicated cover. Worth investigating if this is important to you. I've uploaded the book's image of the three button cover I borrowed from my library, you may wish to check it out. I'd say if you order it on Amazon you'll just get the fly single button one they display though.

The cover aside, the content inside is where this book excels. Thousands of great facts about creepy crawlies to impress all your friends at the next dinner party or to use as trivia questions if you're hosting a trivia night, to complete that school assignment or if you just want to learn about insects.

The book is quite interactive as well with the reader asked to spot the fake (insects pretending to be deadly creatures to avoid predators), match the parent to child (adult insect to various grubs and larvae), Top Thumps Bugs is a card game available through photocopying pages and turning them into playing cards and other interesting interactive ways to learn and retain knowledge are on the pages inside.

Detailed sketches showing what's inside an insect's exoskeleton using a locust as an example are just fascinating. You'll learn that insects don't have eyelids and see how they see objects. Learn about cultures that eat insects (80% of the world's population) as well there's some recipes for you to try such as Crispy Mealworm Stir-Fry or Bee Grubs in Coconut Cream.

Buzz covers all kinds of insects (which make up 90% of all animals in the world) from the 1/3rd which are beetles, to spiders, butterflies, ants and all kinds of insects. Career options for those interested in working with insects are also included along with heaps of other stuff as well!

A great, entertaining and educational book, I borrowed it from the library but its worth owning, I'm ordering a copy. The advantage that online buying has for a book like this is that the buttons won't be worn out by customers in the store.

Press the photo of a mosquito on the cover, and there's that annoying whine. Press the bee, hear a buzz. The cricket chirps.

Yes, I'd say that "Buzz" is off to a good start.

"Buzz" is a hard-covered, oversized, picture-and-text book aimed at 4-to-8 year-olds. It asks the question: "What's all the buzz about these bugs?" And if the field testing in this house is typical, 136 pages of answers are barely enough.

Did you know:

-- Insects were the first animals to walk on land (400 million years ago).

-- If every other living thing died, insects wouldn't blink. But if insects disappeared, no pollinated flowers, no crops --- disaster.

-- For every person on the planet: 200 million insects.

-- Number of Anthropods ("insects, spiders and other creepy-crawlies") in a square yard of wooded land: 1.5 million.

-- Insects must warm up their flight muscles before takeoff.

-- Ants can drag 1,700 times their own weight. (Strongest animal in the world: the rhinoceros beetle, which can lift 850 times its weight.)

-- Insects, lacking eyelids, rub their eyes to clean them.

-- Insects are a good source of vitamins and minerals. In Thailand, fried insects are sold by the bag.

The delightful factoids --- at least to this Nature-challenged parent --- are only the start of this book's appeal. That's because it's from DK Publishing, which seems to put out an endless series of uniformly excellent picture-and-text books for kids. "Buzz", published in 2007, may be the pinnacle. Consider this spread: On the left-hand page, in a appealing jungle of large typefaces, are two stunning facts ("90% of all animal species are insects. One-third of these are beetles"), and, on the right, a photograph of dead beetles mounted in an exhibition case, row upon neat row, ten neat rows in all. You get the idea --- dramatically.

Kids love cool facts. Ours is surely not unique in wanting to know cool facts a day or two before the other kids. And that's how she's "reading" this book --- a few pages a night, one or two nights a week. She doesn't know yet about the other DK books we've ordered; we're going to put them ever so gradually into the rotation. Otherwise, we might have a kid who knows pretty much everything about everything. And we wouldn't want that.

Buzz the bee looked like a bee, flew like a bee, but he was missing the buzzzzz like a bee. He had a melodious hmmmmm instead of the uniform buzzzzz like all of the other bees. Buzz wanted to be normal, he wanted to be just like everyone else so he set out to look for his buzzzzz.

Along his journey Buzz spoke with his friend the ant, flew into a turtle named Slow Wilbert and rescued a young lady bee from a mean old spider that planned on having her for lunch. Instantly Floris knew that Buzz was different and she liked that he was unique. Buzz had finally found his buzz, it was inside of him all along.

The moral of this story: It is ok to be different.

Buzz's Journey by Ryan Green and Illustrated by T. Bell is the cutest childrens book I have ever read! The story line was adorable, and easily understandable for children. It also teaches children that it is ok to be different. The illustrations were a perfect addition filled with vibrant colors sure to keep their attention. I reviewed Buzz's Journey while my son was sleeping but tomorrow at bedtime this is the book I will read to him; and many nights after. 5 Hearts

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Buzz's Journey is an absolutely charming little book that will delight children of all ages, but will definitely be a bedtime favorite for the little ones...
It is not only a sweet story about a bee named Buzz - but a story that shows being different doesn't mean being wrong or bad.
You see, Buzz hums. Yup.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmms, not bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Houston, we have a problem!!
So goes Buzz's journey to find out the meaning of buzz...
T. Bell's illustrations fit beautifully with Ryan Green's sweet story.
Indeed I loved this little book...and I have no little ones!!! But plan on sending a copy to my Goddaughter -
You will find this is a favorite of your child's, and you may be reading this almost every day..
But it's worth it.
Charming!

Dr. Hansen as compiled a complete guide to the carpenter ants of the US and Canada including keys, description of species, habitats, behavior, and other interesting facts. I recommend this publication to all who are involved with the identification and management recommendations of urban pests.

wanted to get information on carpenter ants as they have made many communities around my place...they're everywhere! this book is actually more than i asked for, a lot of information. slightly text bookish, but it is thorough and appears to cover all aspects of the carpenter ant. maybe i will make friends with the hundreds, thousands...millions of my "neighbors". need to read further. p.s. many different types of carpenter ants, and pictures very helpful.

Following a friend's recommendation, I purchased The Caterpillar Story for my 9 year old daughter, to my surprise, it is more than a children's story, the tale is about love and the choices we make for love. I decided to give a copy to my wife, in recognition of her continuous sacrifices she has made for our family. The Caterpillar Story is for all ages, it opens the door to discuss commitment and love with our children, the pictures communicate to children. It is a must have at home story, like the Little Prince.

This is a really lovely story that teaches a great lesson... I would recommend it to anyone, young and old!

Cute, good read-aloud book with wonderful drawings and nice touches of humor. Lots to see, lots to count.

I love the creativity of this book and its use of numbers. Cute, attention keeping, and very educational all in one.

A beautifully crafted and written book for young children!
My 3 year old neices loved it!

Great book for kids, beautiful ilustrations and coloring. The Pop ups will delight your kids!!! Great gift idea.