Bugs: A Photicular Book

by Dan Kainen, Mara Grunbaum (contributor)

This book brings you up close and personal with eight different bug species in astounding motion. Using Photicular technology—an innovative lenticular-based technology that uses precision sliding lenses and four-color video imagery—each image is like a 3D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid, immersive visual experience, allowing Bugs to zoom in on the tiny world of insects. Watch a praying mantis diving for its pray, a house fly rubbing its fore legs, a tarantula skittering across the floor, a leaf-cutter ant hauling a giant leaf up a branch, a dung beetle pushing its ball up a hill, and more. Bugs offers readers an up-close look at bugs in motion and a window into how they move and behave. Science writer Mara Grunbaum provides an opening essay that delves into the fascinating behavior of these wonderful creatures as well as a detailed profile accompanying each image.

Genres: Nonfiction

24 pages, Hardcover

Published August 12, 2025

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun book with moving pictures.

[Scottie Pouliot · Rating 5 out of 5]

The photos alone make it amazing but the brief facts are cool and I learned a few things.