Bug Hotel

by Libby Walden

Welcome to the Bug Hotel, a homemade habitat where creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes can find a place to stay! Discover how a bug hotel can create a sustainable, safe environment for insects and mini-beasts by exploring each section, lifting the flaps and finding out facts about your favourite garden insects.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

16 pages, Hardcover

Published March 8, 2018

Reviews

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bug Hotel is a beautifully designed, interactive picture book that invites young readers to take a closer look at the world of insects and bugs. With sturdy flaps on each page, children can explore fun, accessible facts about some of nature’s most familiar little creatures, making this book both educational and engaging. Each spread focuses on a different insect or bug, highlighting their unique habits, life cycles, and the types of shelter they prefer. Readers will learn that solitary bees lay their eggs in hollow sticks, beetles feast on decaying wood, and ladybugs snuggle into grass and hay to stay warm through the winter months.

The detailed collage-style illustrations by Clover Robin bring each tiny habitat to life with rich textures and earthy colors. What I really love about Bug Hotel is how it encourages observation and respect for the natural world. It helps children see that even the smallest creatures have important roles to play, and deserve cozy, safe spaces to live. Whether your child enjoys observing these critters from a distance or is always searching under logs and leaves, this book is sure to inspire backyard exploration and imaginative play.

It’s also a perfect companion to a bug hotel-building activity, helping kids connect the facts they read with real-world experiences they can create. Highly recommend!

[Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bug Hotel is a strong educational book that offers in-depth knowledge of animals and their habitats. Further to offering such insightful knowledge, it is displayed amongst beautiful and eye-catching illustrations, with additional interactive features (lift up flaps). the highlight of this book, for me, is the instructions on how to build your own bug hotel. This fully engages children with the book and allows them to refer back to the reasons for specific areas and materials within the creation they are making - Bringing the book, and its meaning, to life!
Due to the language and terminology used in this book, id uses it with upper key stage two. some of the terminologies would be new to the children so I would only introduce this book when the children had some foundation knowledge to be able to discuss and comprehend this new information.
Moreover, some children with lower reading levels may need greater adult/teacher support when reading this book.

[Phoebe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous and educational.

[KC · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. Wonderfully interactive and clever.