Insects


The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Grouchy Ladybug
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
A Beetle Is Shy
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
400 books — 50 voters
Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalWild Migrations by Matthew J. KauffmanThe Homing Instinct by Bernd HeinrichFour Wings and a Prayer by Sue HalpernA World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
Animal Migration
35 books — 7 voters

James and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddThe Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka] by Franz KafkaThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Swarming In A Soup Bowl
184 books — 10 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
287 books — 64 voters

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

David Foster Wallace
Insects all business all the time.
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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