Annotation:Tells how the author, as a young boy, followed a trail of ants and came across various other insects and small creatures, then briefly provides facts about each creature encountered.

Annotation:A basic introduction to spiders, examining where they live, how they grow, what they eat, and the unique traits that help to define them, such as their ability to spin silk threads and webs.

Annotation:Describes various types of insects using different poetic forms. Includes glossary and poetry notes.

Annotation:The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

Annotation:Presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and ladybug.

Annotation:The exacting prose and jewel-toned illustrations echo the harmony of monarch and milkweed in this carefully researched book, explaining one of nature's most spectacular displays in a refreshingly simple manner.

Annotation:Children learn how baby bugs are born, what they look like, and how they grow.

Annotation:Children learn about the many different habitats that provide homes for bugs.

Annotation:Children learn about the different ways bugs sense the world around them, and the body parts they use to sense.

Annotation:Buzz, flutter and march into three tiny new worlds with Ms. Frizzle. Includes: Gets ants in its pants, In a beehive, Butterflies and the bog beast.

Annotation:One spider is as big as a dinner plate. Another one is as tiny as the tiniest raindrop. How does it help a spider to be so big? And how could it help another spider to be so small? Spiders Biggest! Littlest! answers these and other fascinating questions.

Annotation:Marvel at a wasp that paralyzes spiders and feeds them to her young. See a butterfly that is bigger than many birds. Then meet a spider that lives in a bubble underwater. In this book, you'll learn about the life cycles of some fascinating animals-from the praying mantis to the jumping spider.

Annotation:Simple, rhyming text about a ladybug search teaches about prepositional phrases.

Annotation:Introduces common backyard insects and explains the basic characteristics of these creatures.

Annotation:From deserts to forests to inside your living room, spiders are everywhere! You can spot the sticky webs that they weave to catch their dinners. Spiders can be many different colors and move in surprising ways. Some roll across the sand. Others walk on water! In SPIDERS!, TIME For Kids® unravels the mysteries of these amazing eight-legged creatures.

Annotation:En este libro ilustrado con fotografías para niños, las arañitas nacen, crecen y llegan a ser excelentes tejedoras. This book, which is illustrated with photographs, discusses the birth and growth of little spiders who later become excellent weavers of webs.