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I have never read a children's nature book this beautiful and informative at the same time!

Love the subtle colours! It's like a dream!

I love how brisk the descriptions are telling what we need to know about each creature mentioned.

Biology redefined!

I used to hate bugs and beetles and such small creatures when I was a kid. Maybe because I was taught to be afraid of 'insects' but never got educated regarding the basics about them, how they matter and how they live.

Yes, it's important to get educated about the different beings that make up the biodiversity. And such books make things easier! A lot!

Thanks to the Publisher, the author and the team for the book!

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Not much wrong here – although I would have preferred the creators didn't use such a tight cursive font here and there. This book looks at bugs, creepy crawlies, spiders – right up to slugs and snails and scorpions. We generally learn through the superlative – just one or two instances of each kind of lifestyle is featured, but by the end we get a picture of how insects and their larvae live and breathe underwater, how they reproduce, what they eat, what eats them in turn, and also about land-based bugs and slugs, and flying insects. For interaction, we get a couple of dioramas to pore over with a spotting test for each, and a handful of multiple choice questions. The pictures are uncrowded portraits, but the amount of plain page doesn't matter when the concision and care in the text is telling us all we would need to know. Adults might gain some trivia, too – apparently the death's head hawk moth can squeak like a mouse. A strong four stars for this volume that all nature educators should consider.

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