The Handy Bug Answer Book

The Handy Answer Book

by Gilbert Waldbauer

The Handy Answer Book series is an engaging and entertaining line of question and answer books (requiring no previous knowledge of any kind to use) in scientific areas as well as history, sports, and general reference. With 12 titles, the series appeals to students and adults alike, and many more who are, perhaps, different. Every Handy Answer Book provides hundreds of questions you (or someone close to you) wished you'd asked (generally accompanied by a similar number of answers) in a simple-to-use topical arrangement, with lots of photos (some of them in color) and illustrations (hopefully connected to the text).

Our best-selling Handy Science Answer Book delivers an expert, easy-to-follow overview of the sciences and is an indispensable family reference, even in families given to dispensing with references.

Information-hungry kids are sure to find The Handy Bug Answer Book and The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book delicious, especially on wheat. The new Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents), is devoted to more than 700 kid-specific questions and answers, including why is the sky blue and what is this thing hanging from my nose? It has range. Like kids.

Science readers of any age will find the Handy titles on physics, weather, geography, the ocean, and space (outer) the cat's pajamas or, better yet, the parakeet's sweater, tiny though it may be.

The very helpful Handy History Answer Book surveys, in nearly 700 pages, several thousand years of big events -- wars, inventions, religion, disasters, art, epidemics, exploration, catastrophes, philosophy, and many other things that seem to have happened mostly in the past. Find out who did what and why they did it. It's a wonderful book,and we're thinking we'd really like to sell more.

For anyone who ever asked the question (or a paraphrase thereof), "Why in the world is the world full of bugs?" or "What is that thing on my arm?" and for the child (intent on scaring his or her parents) in the rest of us, there's The Handy Bug Answer Book. From insects to millipedes to centipedes and all legs in between, Handy Bug has got the dirt on creepy-crawlies. Noted insect expert Dr. Gilbert Waldbauer shares his passion for the intricate, abundant, very strange, but little-known world of insects in this entertaining and accessible question-and-answer book. The bug doctor distinguishes helpful insects from pests and explains the differences between insects, spiders, millipedes, and other tiny invertebrates. With plenty of bugtastic photos, some in color, Handy Bug answers nearly 800 questions on insect lives and habits, including their diet, number, mating activities, sex lives, social organization, recreational activities, and physical structure, as well as where they can be found.

Genres: Reference, Science, Animals

Paperback

First published January 1, 1998