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Children's Insect & Bee Books
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A Beekeeper's Year
by: Johnson, Sylvia
Follows a beekeeper through the four seasons, showing how bees and humans
work together to make honey. Also includes a glossary of beekeeping terms
and some favorite honey recpies. Color photos. 32 pgs. Ages 8-12.
c. 1994, H/C... $7.50
Used, Out-of-Print
Condition: Good, ex-library copy
with usual library markings
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Beautiful Bee Book
by: Unstead, Sue
Introduces children to the world of bees! This unique reference guide
offers children a hands-on experience up close and personal with a bee.
This book explores the life cycle, development, and includes interesting
features of this feared insect. Children can turn a wheel to see how a
bee develops stage by stage, or lift a flap to see the workings inside
a bee colony. The Beautiful Bee book also includes fascinating facts,
interesting and unusual features about bees, a glossary, and an index.
24 pgs. Ages 4-8.
c.2006, Spiral, H/C...$17.95
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Beautiful Beetle Book
by: Unstead, Sue
This book helps children crawl into the amazing world of beetles! This
unique reference guide offers children a hands-on experience up close
and personal with a beetle. This book explores the life cycle, development,
and includes interesting features of this insect. Children can turn off
the lights to watch the beetles glow in the dark or lift a flap to see
inside their home. The Beautiful Beetle book also includes fascinating
facts, interesting and unusual features about beetles, a glossary, and
an index. Aes 4-8. 24 pgs.
c. 2005, Spiral, H/C...$17.95
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Bees and Wasps: QEB Animal Lives
by: Morgan, Sally
Come on an amazing journey into the world of bees and wasps and discover
where they live, how they grow and learn, what they eat, and the dangers
they have to face. By the time you're finished, you'll be a bee and wasp
expert! Color pages. 32 pgs. Ages 7-12.
c. 2006, S/C... $8.95
Used
Condition: Very Good
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Bugs
by: Nancy Winslow Parker
Sixteen insects are described in lively couplets, illustrations, and diagrams.
Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical
characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common
insects. 40 pgs. Ages 5-10.
c.1987, S/C...$4.95
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Butterflies & Moths (Wilderness Album Series)
by: Barbara Battulla
19 nature stories for children with pictures to color. Ages 7-11.
c.1987, S/C, Rev...$4.95
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Butterfly & Moth (Eyewitness Book)
by: Whalley, Paul
Discover in close-up the enchanting & secret life of butterflies &
moths. Here is an original and exciting look at the natural history of
butterflies and moths. Stunning real-life photographs provide a unique
"eyewitness" view of the behavior of these complex and vividly
beautiful insects, their structure and life cycle, where they live and
feed, and how they protect themselves. See a butterfly emerging from its
chrysalis, how silk moths make silk, a caterpillar eating its own eggshell,
and butterflies that have become extinct. Learn how a caterpillar can
frighten off predators, why some adult moths never eat, which butterfly
migrates the length of a subcontinent, and how to breed butterflies and
moths. Discover how a caterpillar transforms itself into a chrysalis,
which butterfly lives with ants, why butterflies and moths often mimic
each other, how a chrysalis can look like a dead leaf, and much, much
more. 64 pgs. Ages 9-12.
c. 2000, H/C...$15.95
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Buzz on Honeybees
by: Kaemmerlen, Cathy
A honey of a time with the Storytelling Honeybee. Itty Bitty Betty, the
Storytelling Honeybee, introduces youngsters to the real "buzz"
on honeybees. Betty's stories accompany meticulously detailed and beautifully
painted representations of bees. Filled with interesting facts, this educational
adventure from the littlest of bees gives us plenty to think about! Ages
5-8. 32 pgs.
c. 2012, H/C... $16.99
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Cockroaches, Stinkbugs & Other Creepy Crawlers (Draw Science)
by: Beeker, Christine
Provides step-by-step instructions, and tips on color, for drawing 17
different insects such as termites, slugs, leeches, cockroaches, flea,
mosquito, praying mantis, dragonfly, tarantula, and daddy longlegs and
more. 48 pgs. Ages 12 & up. Great for adults too.
c. 1998, S/C... $5.00
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Entomology (Real Kids - Real Science Books)
by: Doris, Ellen
A book about studying insects that teaches children to raise caterpillars
and watch their metamorphosis into butterflies or moths, search for insects
in fields, keep crickets at home and observe their territoriality, explore
a pond, figure out why a spider is not an insect, dissect a gall, and
more. Part of the Children's School of Science series. More than 200 photos.
64 pgs. Ages 9-12.
c. 1993, H/C...$16.95
Out-Of-Print. Quantities Limted
Condition: New
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Grasshopper & Crickets (Keeping Minibeasts)
by: Barrie Watts
Text & photos show how to collect, feed & care for grasshoppers & crickets.
Ages 9-12.
c.1991, S/C...$3.95
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Insect Zoo
by: Ewbank, Constance
How to collect and care for insects. Illustrated. Ages 9-13. 96 pgs.
c. 1973, H/C...$15.00
Used, Out-of-Print, Quantities Limited
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Insects (National Audubon Society First Field Guide)
by: Wilsdon, Christina
This book is part of a series of guides designed for adolescents interested
in natural history and nature. It is appropriately sized to fit in a field
vest pocket. These books are arguably the most beautifully photographed
and laid out field guides yet published for young people. Each book has
an introductory section filled with interesting facts, descriptions of
early naturalists, definitions of many of the terms used in the book,
and a guide to using the field guide portion of the book. Each field guide
features 50 common species with photos and brief descriptions of many
more regionally occurring insects. Brief discussions of threatened and
endangered species are particularly valuable. Great first guides for children
and adults with limited natural history background. Color photos on every
page. Ages 12 & up. 159 pgs.
c. 1998, S/C...$8.95
Out-of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: New
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Questions & Answers About Ants
by: Selsam, Millicent
Fully illustrated introduction to ants with 42 most commonly asked questions
such as: Do ants have babies?, What do ants eat?, How do ants sleep?,
How do ants keep themselves clean?, Can ants remember things?, Can ants
figure things out?, How do you keep ants?, and many more. 71 pgs. Ages
8-12.
c. 1967, S/C...$5.00
Used, Out-of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Very Good
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Zoobooks Butterflies
by: Wildlife Education
An all-in-one, everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-didn’t-know-who-to-ask
guide to the world’s most fascinating butterflies. Features 24 pages of
striking wildlife photography, insightful writing, colorful illustrations,
and diagrams that explain in simple terms things that make "animal facts"
come alive for your child. Ages 5-12.
c.1990, Booklet...$2.95
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