True Bugs

By Sara Swan Miller

Book Overview

An introduction to true bugs, a taxonomic order of insects, that includes descriptions of fourteen species and recommendations for finding, identifying, and observing them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531114791
• ISBN13: 9780531114797
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Go Buggy Reading This Great Book!

This is a fine starter series for kids interested studying different animals. True Bugs: When is a Bug Really a Bug our fifth experience with the wonderful and interesting Animals in Order series...what can I say, my kids just can't get enough of these! What I like a great deal about this is that it takes time at the beginning of the book to look at (briefly) what makes an animal a true bug, specifically getting into what traits exactly make it a bug. The book then goes into the "order" of living things which details the kingdom, phylum and class, order, family and species (with a handy visual chart for reference, great for younger kids, so they can SEE how it works rather than just read it or have it read to them). This is one of the better features of this series. Next the text goes specifically into where primates fit into animal kingdom, breaking it down (in words and pictures again) to kingdom (animal), phylum (arthropod), class (insect) and order (true bug). In this section we also find out that there are 30 different orders of insects and more than 38,000 different species of true bugs! The book also talks a bit about where true bugs of all types and sizes fit into food chain and in habitats including fields and gardens; in your house; in the woods; and in ponds and streams. True Bugs: When is a Bug Really a Bug goes from there into an overview of fourteen species complete with full page, color photographs for each one (not for the squeamish or bug phobic, these are very detailed and some show the bug feeding), which really serve to bring the information to life. This section includes Family, Common Example, Genus and Species and Size for each true bug discussed and each insect is given one full page for written description and one full page COLOR photo...excellent for fully engaging the reader! Overall, a fantastic way to introduce various types of true bugs to your curious young reader! What you get in True Bugs: When is a Bug Really a Bug is an excellent overview of all types of bugs. Additionally, this book has something none of the others in this series has had yet, there is an extended section at the end discussing various ways to discover bugs in fields, gardens and woods as well as second section on looking for bugs in ponds and streams. Both sections have a list of "useful tools" to gather for such activities and really draw children into the activity of bug watching (and then freeing them back into the wild. As always with this series, I was pleased to find that at the end of the book the author/publisher also included a short recommended reading list and some really great web pages to do more research on...the kids in particular LOVED this! The books in this series would make a wonderful addition to a classroom library or as gifts for your favorite young reader who has a passion for animals; the information here is scientifically presented, accented with wonderful color photos and is both interesting and info