Spotted Beetles: Ladybugs in Your Backyard

Backyard Bugs

by Nancy Loewen, Melissa Voda (Illustrator)

Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of ladybugs. Includes anatomy diagram and activity.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2003

About the author

Nancy Loewen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, surrounded by library books and cats. She's published more than 140 books for children. FOUR TO THE POLE (co-authored with polar explorer Ann Bancroft) and THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN were Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her WRITER'S TOOLBOX series received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers.

Nancy lives in Saint Paul and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She has two adult children and a cat who sometimes bites her knees under the table as she writes.

Reviews

[May Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Educational

This gives kid-friendly information on beetles and ladybugs found in our backyard. As an adult who listened to this book for kids, this is a good opportunity to learn once again about things that we often take for granted in our own backyard.

[CFAITC]

Scientific information is interspersed with primary-level text to explain interesting and important facts about ladybugs.