Little Guides to Nature: Hello Bugs

By Author / Illustrator

Nina Chakrabarti

Genre

Environment & Nature

Age range(s)

Publisher

Laurence King Publishing

ISBN

9781510230491

Format

Hardback

Published

11-04-2024

Synopsis

Did you know that crickets have ears on their knees and that butterflies taste with their feet? And can you tell a bee from a wasp? Beautiful gallery-style pages showcase the fascinating world of insects, including ladybirds, beetles and bugs that glow in the dark. Fun off-the-page activity spreads include how to make a bug hotel and what to look for on a bug hunt.

With colourful illustrations and amazing facts, bug-based outdoor activities to enjoy and features on camouflage, mimicry, life in a beehive and metamorphosis, this little book will provide hours of pleasure, both indoors and out.

Be inspired to go outdoors and get up close with nature with this brand-new series from internationally bestselling illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. Also in the series: Hello Fungi, Hello Trees and Hello Fossils and Shells.

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Reviews

Jane

Glance at the common features of all four books in this series and the librarian/teacher/book-buying parent will soon be persuaded to invest: Helpful hardback format suited to taking outdoors; as is their fit into a rucksack pocket; Quality paper for durability; Stylish and colourful illustrations; a good selection of facts; Inclusion of practical activities which children could easily do, e.g. making a leaf or spore print, building a bug hotel, and creating trace fossils; Quotes from literature, poetry or celebrities at the beginning and, at the end, bullet-pointed encouragement to be kind to these natural phenomena.

These books tell children what to look out for and help them to understand a little more about what they might find under a stone, in the garden, on the beach or out in the woods or park. Thus equipped, they could soon become astute and informed observers of nature, whether already very keen or just inquisitive. So, schools/parents: get some copies (duplicate, if possible) for your library, forest school, classrooms and bored-in-the-holiday pile.

In Little Guides to Nature: Hello Bugs, I particularly liked learning the definition of a true bug; the injection of some humour in the text; the comparison of bees and wasps, with the notable remark that they are both helpful pollinators; and the inclusion of Christina Rossetti's poem, 'Hurt No Living Thing'.

48 pages / Reviewed by Jane Rew, school libarian