{"id":18547,"date":"2013-02-26T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2013-02-16T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:16:24","slug":"the-beetle-book-by-steve-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-beetle-book-by-steve-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beetle<\/a>“Line up every kind of plant and animal on Earth and one of every four will be a beetle.” If your reaction to this fact is an uncomfortable mix of fascination and horror, get your hands on The Beetle Book<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Steve Jenkins. In this fact-filled picture book (written for children, but hey, this twenty-something learned a lot reading it), there are big, beautiful illustrations of bugs: hissing cockroaches, June bugs, fireflies, dung beetles, ladybugs, and hundreds of other creepy crawlies – all of them beetles. The full-color bugs are set against ample white space and accompanied by thematically grouped facts. Small (or big!) all-black silhouettes on every page show the actual size of the beetles that have been magnified for illustrations. Staring down the five-inch mandibles of a six-spotted green tiger beetle gets a lot easier when its 3\/4-inch-tall silhouette reminds you just how tiny the beast really is!<\/p>\n

A few other great books for the budding naturalist or the latent scientist:<\/p>\n