Ants

by Rebecca Rissman

Overview

Let’s search for creepy critters. Look under that plant. What's that crawling by? It's a little ant! This book uses simple rhymes and engaging images to teach readers about ants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410948144
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/07/2012
Series:	Creepy Critters
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD450L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Rebecca Rissman is an award-winning children's author. She has written more than 200 books about science, history, art, and culture. Her writing has been praised by School Library Journal, Booklist, Creative Child Magazine, and Learning Magazine. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and two daughters.

Table of Contents

Let's search! — Counting ants — Did you know?

Editorial Reviews

Bugs! You never know what kids’ reactions will be. Giggle and grab? Shriek and run? These titles in the Creepy Critters series choose to introduce various insects in a jolly, rhyming manner, though they are unafraid to inserts a few cautionary notes when appropriate. The large horizontal trim will fit well on laps, while the combination of extreme close-up photos and cartoon backgrounds do a swell job of buffering potential creepiness. Ants begins with counting exercises that use both body segments and legs, before showing off cool photos of differently colored ants, ants marching in rows, and—ick—a nest of larvae. Bees has some graphical fun in tracing the loop-de-loop paths of its subjects and includes vivid pictures of hives, honeycombs, and—super-ick—pupae. Also, this: “Bees have stingers too, / which keep enemies away. / It hurts if you’re stung, so / remember, bees don’t like to play!” Ladybugs revels in shots of these colorful cuties of the bug world. Plus, there’s “a secret” under their pop-open shells: wings! Fun fact: ladybug larva, on the other hand, is mega-icky. Each volume concludes with a two-page exercise involving finding the titular insects within a cartoon landscape, complicated (just a little) by the addition of a few other bugs. Bright, colorful, and acceptably educational.

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