Insects


The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Grouchy Ladybug: A Classic Picture Book from the Author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Quiet Cricket
Some Bugs
Step Gently Out
A Butterfly Is Patient (Sylvia Long)
James and the Giant Peach
The Beetle Book: A Beautiful Picture Book About How Beetles Squeak, Glow, and Survive for Kids (Ages 4-7)
The Very Busy Spider
Du Iz Tak?
In the Tall, Tall Grass
Ten Little Caterpillars
It Fell from the Sky
Hank's Big Day: The Story of a Bug
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldLife in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
Books about Invertebrates
397 books — 46 voters
Walking Wild by Jose A NevesA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Some Great Books on Nature
255 books — 146 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
Female Naturalist Writers
284 books — 62 voters

No & Other Love Stories by Kirsty LoganHoneybee by Dawn O'PorterA Sharp Scratch by Heather DarwentThe Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen          PhillipsBeware That Girl by Teresa Toten
Insects on Food
14 books — 1 voter
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles by Beatrix PotterA Beatrix Potter Treasury by Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix PotterThe Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Pigling Bland by Beatrix Potter
Animals In Literature List 3
99 books — 1 voter

Françoise Hardy
Insects have always spoiled my life.
Françoise Hardy

Sarah Rajkotwala
Another instance when I see sparkles is when I do a kind deed for an insect or animal. I often put beetles, millipedes, spiders and the like outside when I find them inside, so I do not have to kill them. I use a piece of paper or in the dustpan. I have done this for years, but since I started seeing the fairy sparkles with my actual eyesight, I have also seen animal and insect fairy sparkles, often in the half-light at dusk. They sometimes light-up when I put them outside, just a single flash ...more
Sarah Rajkotwala, Fairy Sparkles

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