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Butterflies / Garden Critters Recommended Reading
Below find some butterfly, ladybugs, insects, caterpillar, and garden bugs books suggestions.
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Ladybugs Books
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The Grouchy Ladybug (Hardcover)
The ladybug is mean to everyone. What will happen when she meets up with an elephant?
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Ladybug, Ladybug (Paperback)
Familiar nursery rhyme, Ladybug encounters a variety of animals while rushing home to her children.
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Little Miss Ladybug & Her Magical Red Thread
An adoption storybook which depicts the flight of Little Miss Ladybug, a good
luck omen, and her magical red thread, which is a ancient Chinese belief. "An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break"
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Are You A Ladybug?
An excellent book that introduces children to the idea of metamorphosis.The books briefly describe their subjects' birth, growth and development, a few
outstanding physical and behavioral characteristics, diet, habitat, and natural
enemies.
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The Very Lazy Ladybug
The ladybug of the title is so lethargic that she doesn't even know how to fly. She decides to look for a new sleeping spot, and, since her mobility is restricted, she latches on to a number of passing animals. As she soon finds out, a kangaroo is too bouncy, a monkey's incessant swinging makes her dizzy, and a tiger's roaring makes it too noisy to sleep. Finally, she thinks she's found the perfect spot-on the trunk of an elephant.
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Ten Little Ladybugs (Board book)
An excellent book that introduces children to the idea of metamorphosis.The books briefly describe their subjects' birth, growth and development, a few outstanding physical and behavioral characteristics, diet, habitat, and natural enemies. |
Caterpillar/Butterfly Books
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Hardcover)
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
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Are you a Butterfly?
This is a wonderful book that draws the
reader into the world of the butterfly. It does a very appropriate job of explaining the life cycle of the butterfly in terms even a preschooler can understand.
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Good Night, Sweet Butterflies: A Color Dreamland (Hardcover)
Toddlers who loved the "real" ladybugs in
Ten Little Ladybugs will adore the nine sparkly, three-dimensional butterflies in
Good Night, Sweet Butterflies.
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Monarch Butterfly
Beginning with the egg and ending with the beautiful Monarch the author clearly explains the changes that take place. Information is also included about the migration patterns of these interesting creatures. The last pages explain how children can raise monarch butterflies so that they can observe this miracle of life first hand |
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I Like Bugs (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)
Black Bugs. Green Bugs. Fat Bugs. Buggy Bugs., I like Bugs!, , A rhyming ode to insects.
The type is big, the words are easy, and the art is bright and bold.
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The Very Busy Spider
This colorful picture book describes a
spider's day. Blown onto a farmyard fence, she starts to spin a web. The other animals ask if she wants to play, but in every case
"the spider didn't answer. She was very busy spinning her web."
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The Very Quiet Cricket
A cricket is born who cannot talk! A bigger cricket welcomes him to the world, then a locust, a cicada, and many other insects, but each time the tiny cricket rubs his wings together in vain: no sound emerges. In the end, however, he meets another quiet cricket, and manages to find his "voice."
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Alpha Bugs: A Pop-Up Alphabet
"Where will they strike next? A jar of olives, a waffle iron, a rock -- each conceals a daffy insect... They are wittily transformed into members of an odd but comical alphabet species... Amusing alliteration and a zany sense of humor deliver fun with every letter."
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How Many Bugs in a Box?
Raising the flaps on each spread of this lift-up counting book reveals fanciful insects in increasing numbers, from "one tough bug" with barbells, to "seven space bugs" surrounded by stars and planets, to "ten saw bugs," whose snouts indeed consist of saws.
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