One Million Insects
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2021
64 pages
978-1-913519-24-7 (ISBN)
Description
'A fascinating welcome to the wonderful world of insects' - LoveReading4Kids
'Fun, inspiring, and well researched.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A beautifully illustrated tour of some of the world's most fascinating insects, perfect for readers 8+.
Did you know that without insects, humankind could not survive? This illustrated, fact-filled title explores the huge variety of insects, with a focus on what makes an insect an insect, the differences between the groups, and why insects are the most important animal group on Earth.
Broken down into sections exploring each of the main types of insect, each section takes a different, playfully visual approach to really capture the character of the insects in the order being explored. As well as including practical advice for observing insects safely, a section at the back of the book describes ways to help insects and encourage them into a garden no matter how small.
'Fun, inspiring, and well researched.' - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A beautifully illustrated tour of some of the world's most fascinating insects, perfect for readers 8+.
Did you know that without insects, humankind could not survive? This illustrated, fact-filled title explores the huge variety of insects, with a focus on what makes an insect an insect, the differences between the groups, and why insects are the most important animal group on Earth.
Broken down into sections exploring each of the main types of insect, each section takes a different, playfully visual approach to really capture the character of the insects in the order being explored. As well as including practical advice for observing insects safely, a section at the back of the book describes ways to help insects and encourage them into a garden no matter how small.
Reviews / Votes
'A fascinating welcome to the wonderful world of insects' * LoveReading4Kids * 'Fun, inspiring, and well researched' * Kirkus Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 years
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Fixed format
Illustrations
clr illus
File size
41,62 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-913519-24-7 (9781913519247)
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One Million Insects
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Persons
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science and nature writer. She is the author of more than 150 books for children and a journalist for The Week Junior and Whizz Pop Bang magazines. Her critically acclaimed picture book, Moth: An Evolution Story, illustrated by Daniel Egneus, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019 and was named book of the year by the Financial Times and Books for Keeps in the UK. In the US it was named a book of 2019 by The Horn Bookand the National Science Teaching Association, and winner of the AAAS Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Isabel has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards, and the Blue Peter Book Awards.
Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through it is a love of colour, textures and layers.
Lou Baker Smith is a freelance illustrator and designer, working in book publishing and packaging design. Her work is diverse in subject matter and technique, the common thread that runs through it is a love of colour, textures and layers.
Content
Is it an insect? * Insect biodiversity * Webspinners, zorapterans (small) and stoneflies * Rockcrawlers and heelwalkers * Grasshoppers, crickets and bush crickets * Cockroaches, earwigs * Termites * Mantids * Stick insects and leaf insects * Beetles * True flies * Scorpionflies and fleas * Butterflies * Moths * Caddisflies * Ants * Bees * Wasps * Alderflies, lacewings and snakeflies, stylops * Booklice, barklice and sucking/biting lice * Thrips * True bugs * Mayflies * Dragonflies and damselflies * Bristletails, silverfish and firebrats * One million more?
