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Your Birthday Was the Best! (The Curious Cockroach)
Maggie Hutchings
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The story of an eager cockroach who gate-crashes a birthday party -- with hilarious results. For fans of I Don't Want to Be a Frog.. It's your birthday, and little do you know that an unwelcome guest has joined in on the festivities. A friendly cockroach has snuck undetected into |
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Bompa's Insect Expedition (A Backyard Bug Book for Kids)
David Suzuki - Greystone Kids
Format: Hardcover
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Let's go on an insect expedition for kids ages 4 to 8! This adventure into the extraordinary world of bugs is inspired by David Suzuki's adventures with his own grandkids. It's time for the twins to go on a nature expedition with Bompa. What marvelous place will they explore... |
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Just a Worm
Marie Boyd - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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After being called "just a worm" by two children, Worm embarks on a journey around the garden to prove them wrong. Debut author-illustrator Marie Boyd seamlessly incorporates concepts of nature, natural selection, habitats, and interdependence in this picture book beautifully... |
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Jitterbug
Kai Lüftner - NorthSouth Books
Format: Hardcover
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This little ladybug will rock you! . Ladybugs are so cute, small, and fly so gently. Not so for the "Jitterbug" - Lady B. Marie! Her heart beats for rock 'n' roll. She holds the electric guitar in her hands, her voice belts out melodies, she sings and grooves like crazy.... |
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The Wind & the Clover
Audrey Helen Weber - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed up-and-coming artist comes a gorgeous tribute to imagination, curiosity, and following your dreams, perfect for fans of Julie Fogliano and Carson Ellis.More things than you can imagine live in a field of clover, but this is a story about the bees...and their wondrous dreams... |
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Moth & Butterfly: Ta Da!
Dev Petty - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two caterpillar friends love what they have in common--lots of legs and a talent for chewing leaves into funny shapes. And when it's time to build cocoons, they hang theirs side by side. "Happy metamorphosis," says an older, more knowledgeable butterfly. And it is a happy... |
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It Fell from the Sky
Terry Fan - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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It fell from the sky on a Thursday. None of the insects know where it came from, or what it is. Some say it's an egg. Others, a gumdrop. But whatever it is, it fell near Spider's house, so he's convinced it belongs to him. Spider builds a wonderous display so that insects from... |
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A Good Place
Lucy Cousins - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Bee, Ladybug, Beetle, and Dragonfly are looking for somewhere to live. And each has a different want: Bee loves flowers, Ladybug prefers leaves, Beetle is fond of dead wood, and Dragonfly likes ponds. But every time they find what seems like the perfect spot - with beautiful flowers, a tiny... |
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A Good Place
Lucy Cousins - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Bee, Ladybug, Beetle, and Dragonfly are looking for somewhere to live. And each has a different want: Bee loves flowers, Ladybug prefers leaves, Beetle is fond of dead wood, and Dragonfly likes ponds. But every time they find what seems like the perfect spot - with beautiful flowers, a tiny... |
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The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken
Jennifer Frank - Anne Schwartz Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emma is excited for her worm family to have their portrait taken. But when she sees her other friends' portraits, she gets discouraged. "We had the most beautiful smiles," Ellie the Chipmunk squeals. Abigail the Cat meows, "I looked gorgeous with my big poufy hair."... |
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If Only...
Mies van Hout - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover
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What child has not daydreamed about having wings like a butterfly? But secretly, the flashy butterfly yearns for a stick insect's privacy. And the stick insect wants to swim like a whirligig beetle. One after the other, the denizens of bestselling author-illustrator 's vibrant garden... |
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WHERE'S SPEEDY
NICI GREGORY - BERBAY PUB
Format: Hardcover
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Fan of Mercer Mayer's classic Little Critter series will delight in debut author Nici Gregory's expressive characters in this interactive picture book about finding and ultimately freeing a special slug. George and his sister Lotta have found a new slug friend named Speedy. They... |
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Kaia and the Bees
Maribeth Boelts - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Those Shoes and an award-winning illustrator team up for the story of a girl who tries to overcome her fear of bees to see how amazing they are.Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees... |
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The Very Impatient Caterpillar (A Very Impatient Caterpillar Book)
Ross Burach - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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This clever send-up of every childs biggest challenge -- being patient! -- is a STEM-friendly, laugh-out-loud comedy about metamorphosis.* "Super-charged." --The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books, starred review"Will delight fans of Mo Willemss "Pigeon"... |
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Carl and the Meaning of Life
Deborah Freedman - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the often Caldecott-buzzed Deborah Freedman, a sweet and funny story about finding your place in the world.Carl is an earthworm. He spends his days happily tunneling in the soil until a field mouse asks him a simple question that stops him short: "Why?" Carl's quest takes... |
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A Way with Wild Things
Larissa Theule - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Poppy--if you can spot her among the wildflowers! Poppy loves nature, and can be found carrying on conversations with ladybugs or singing with cicadas, but good luck spotting her indoors and around people! She's a master of camouflage, always finding a way to blend into her surroundings.... |
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The Last Peach
Gus Gordon - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gus Gordon's The Last Peach is the story of two indecisive bugs contemplating eating the last peach of the summer in a hilarious picture book about anticipation and expectation. |
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Snail Crossing
Corey R. Tabor - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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In a book that is as cheerful and charming as Snail himself, Corey Tabor tells a winning tale of slow but steady Snail, whose determination and kindness bring him the best reward of all: friendship.When Snail spies a plump, crisp cabbage across the road, nothing will stop him - not a speeding... |
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A Book for Escargot
Dashka Slater - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In A Book for Escargot, the standalone sequel to Escargot--written by award-winning author Dashka Slater and illustrated by Sydney Hanson--we follow a funny and charming French snail through a library to find the book of his dreams.Bonjour! It is moi, Escargot, your favorite French snail.Today... |
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