SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Beastly Beetles Freaky Flies Mysterious Mantises Repulsive Roaches Strange Spiders Weird Walking Sticks

by Greg ROZA
978-1-43394-599-1.
COPY ISBN
K-Gr 1—Loosely interpreting "bugs" to include spiders, this series gives new readers a sense of the huge variety of shapes and colors in which insects (and arachnids) come. Opposite descriptive texts of one or two sentences per spread, high-quality, close-range photos show the creatures in poses and from angles designed to display heads, legs, and other parts clearly. Despite the titles, children are more likely to be intrigued than repelled by these portrait galleries; the winged and wingless walking sticks look as exotic as sea horses, and the creepy crawlies in Roaches are large, tropical species rather than the common household sorts. Each volume ends with four or five "Words to Know," but has no other back matter.
Each volume provides very basic facts about the title "bug." The leveled texts are choppy and provide little substantive information, but they may give confidence to new readers. It's more likely that children will be drawn to the books' clear, up-close photographic images than to the writing. A useful "Words to Know" page, with accompanying photos, is appended to each text. Review covers these World of Bugs titles: Beastly Beetles, Freaky Flies, Mysterious Mantises, Repulsive Roaches, Strange Spiders, and Weird Walking Sticks.
Reviewed by John Peters , Apr 01, 2011

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