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
A Beetle Is Shy
A Leaf of Faith by J. Suthern HicksWhere the Garden Begins by J. Suthern HicksThe Hephaestus Plague by Thomas  PageAntunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawThe Nest by Gregory A. Douglas
Books with Creepy Crawlers
18 books — 4 voters
Anthill by Edward O. WilsonThe Monarch by Kylee BaumleMonarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalMigrating With the Monarch Butterfly by Thessaly CattThe Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman
Insect Universe
84 books — 11 voters


Michael Cunningham
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. ...more
Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

Beryl Markham
It is amazing what a lot of insect life goes on under your nose when you have got it an inch from the earth. I suppose it goes on in any case, but if you are proceeding on your stomach, dragging your body along by your fingernails, entomology presents itself very forcibly as a thoroughly justified science.
Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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