Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Print ListA Bear, a Bee, and a Honey Tree
By: Daniel Bernstrom
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
When a hungry, fuzzy brown bear and a hive of angry bees come face to face, everybody’s abuzz!...
Addie Ant Goes on an Adventure
By: Maren Morris, Karina Argow
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Addie Ant travels from one garden bed to another on her first solo adventure. As she forges her...
Anansi The Spider: A Tale From the Ashanti
By: Gerald McDermott
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Have you ever wondered how the moon got where it is? According to this Ashanti tale, Nyame, the...
Ants
By: Mari Schuh
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Bees, Snails & Peacock Tails
By: Betsy Franco
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Lyrical language and textured collages poetically convey the wonder of patterns and shapes in...
Beetle Bop
By: Denise Fleming
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Bella Loves Bugs
By: Jess French
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Follow Bella, a girl who is passionate about bugs, on a day in her life at Forest School where...
Bompa’s Insect Expedition
By: David Suzuki, Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
It’s time for the twins to go on a nature expedition with Bompa. To their disappointment, they...
Bug Butts
By: Dawn Cusick
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
From blowing bubbles to spraying acid, the world’s insects do amazing things with this under-...
Bug City
By: Dahlov Ipcar
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Follow a whimsical day in the life of a Bug City family and learn how to identify a wide variety...
Bug Sandwich
By: Brady Smith
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Sick of how much bugs love to bite him, a boy is determined to return the favor. But as he...
Camilla, Super Helper
By: Julie Dillemuth
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
With summer comes sun, lemonade, and…drought? Camilla the Cartographer and Parsley’s bee friend...
Chocolate Chirp Cookies
By: Jenny Goebel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
On a visit to the Butterfly Pavilion with his dad and sister, William spots a sign promoting a...
Cicada Symphony
By: Sue Fliess
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
There are about three thousand different kinds of cicadas on earth. Some species emerge from the...
Du Iz Tak?
By: Carson Ellis
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Du iz tak? What is that? As a tiny shoot unfurls, two damselflies peer at it in wonder...
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
By: Paul Janeczko
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Flight of the Honey Bee
By: Raymond Huber
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Follow the flight of a honey bee as she searches for nectar to sustain her hive and, along the...
Give Bees a Chance
By: Bethany Barton
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Not sure whether to high-five bees or run away from them? Well, maybe you shouldn’t high-five...
Hustle Bustle Bugs
By: Catherine Bailey
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Ready with their magnifying glass, camera, and scrapbook, two young sisters head into nature to...
I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story
By: Mark Pett
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Dougie has a secret: he’s not a ground beetle. He’s a dung beetle, and he loves eating...
I Love Insects
By: Lizzy Rockwell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
The girl in this story loves insects—how they look, how they sound, and how they move. Her...
Insect Detective
By: Steve Voake
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Right now, all around us, thousands of insects are doing strange and wonderful things: wasps are...
Insectlopedia
By: Douglas Florian
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Poetry
Learn through poetry about twenty-one insects that will bug or beguile kids. From swooping...
Sounds of the Wild: Bugs
By: Maurice Pledger
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Ant and the Grasshopper
By: Rebecca Emberley
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
While hard at work on her chores, an ant hears the wonderful clickety click chirrup of music...
The Bees of Notre-Dame
By: Meghan Browne
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
High above the bustling streets and gardens of Paris is a little-known wonder: a cluster of...
The Butterfly Garden
By: Laura Weston
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The life cycle of a monarch butterfly begins with an egg and a feast by caterpillars; each...
The Girl Who Loves Bugs
By: Lily Murray
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Evie loves bugs, but no one around her seems to understand. While Evie would rather spend all...
The Honey Makers
By: Gail Gibbons
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Honeybee Man
By: Lela Nargi
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
By: Jerry Pallotta
Age Level: 3-6 years old
The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants
By: Philip Bunting
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
There are ten quadrillion ants in the world, and yet I bet you never thought they could teach...
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
By: Simms Taback
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Poetry
Everyone knows the song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even worse...
Waiting for Wings
By: Lois Ehlert
Age Level: 3-6 years old
What’s Inside a Caterpillar Cocoon?
By: Rachel Ignotofsky
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Butterflies soar in the sunlight. While moths flutter under the moon and stars. Find out more...
Why Do We Need Bees?
By: Emily Bone
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Why do we need bees? Where do they live? Who's who in a beehive? This lift-the-flap book answers...
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
By: Verna Aardema
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its...
Wingmaker
By: Dave Cameron
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Gramma Tinker is an old caterpillar has an unusual technique for transforming into a moth. She...
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Print ListA Strange Place to Call Home
By: Marilyn Singer
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
Of all the miracles of life, it is life’s persistence that astounds the most. In the endless...
Ace Lacewing: Bug Detective
By: David Biedrzycki
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ants
By: Deborah Hodge
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ants Rule: The Long and Short of It
By: Bob Barner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This is a colorful and fun-filled introduction to nonstandard measurement, comparison, and...
Begin with a Bee
By: Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Phyllis Root
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
By looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, Begin with a Bee helps readers of all ages...
Bug Scouts: Out in the Wild!
By: Mike Lowery
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Meet Doug, Abby, and Josh: the Bug Scouts! Doug and Abby love everything about being Bug Scouts...
Busy Builders
By: Roxie Munro
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The tiny creatures in this book are amazing builders. Get an inside look at the unique...
Butterflies
By: Seymour Simon
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Stunning full-color photographs and tantalizing text introduce these fascinating creatures and...
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
By: Deborah Hopkinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
In this story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help...
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
By: Janice N. Harrington
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Crawly School for Bugs: Poems to Drive You Buggy
By: David Harrison
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
Welcome to Crawly School for Bugs! Termites, stink bugs, gnats, and every insect in between...
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs
By: Carol Murray
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Short poems present a range of familiar insects from crickets to Monarch butterflies. Each is...
Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems/Aleteo y Zumbido: Poemas de Animales
By: Julie Paschkis
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Short poems about animals appear in English and Spanish accompanied by textured illustrations...
Fly Guy Presents: Dinosaurs
By: Tedd Arnold
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Fly Guy and Buzz are ready for their next field trip as they visit a natural history museum to...
Insect: DK Eyewitness
By: Laurence Mound
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Become an eyewitness to the many different varieties of insects in this picture-led reference...
Invented by Animals: Meet the Creatures Who Inspired Our Everyday Technology
By: Christiane Dorion
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Often human scientists try and solve a problem or invent a new tool and they realise that...
It Starts with a Bee
By: Jennie Webber
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A rhyming text and detailed illustrations combine to reveal bees’ activity, culminating in a...
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
By: Carmen Agra Deedy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A sweet retelling of the Cuban folktale, full of puns and a sprinkling of Spanish. When it is...
Mosquito Bite
By: Alexandra Siy, Dennis Kunkel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Two children play hide and seek outdoors on a warm night. Little do they know that a culex, a...
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis
By: Paul Meisel
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The narrator was born on May 17th, a “sunny spring day!” On May 19th, she ate lots of aphids but...
Name That Bug!
By: Demi Jackson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
There are many interesting bug body parts that give clues as to what kind of living thing it is...
Nature All Around: Bugs
By: Pamela Hickman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This illustrated introduction to ants, honeybees, dragonflies, and more covers the basic body...
Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry
By: Karen Ansberry
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Nature does it best…and did it first! Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant...
Nature Log Kids: A Kid's Journal to Record Their Birding Experiences
By: DeAnna Brandt
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Over and Under the Pond
By: Kate Messner
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Discover the plants and animals that make up the rich, interconnected ecosystem of a mountain...
Roberto: The Insect Architect
By: Nina Laden
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Ever since he was a wee mite (a termite, that is), Roberto has wanted to be an architect....
Skeletons and Exoskeletons
By: Julie Lundgren
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This title explains how humans and animals have a skeleton to support the inner workings of...
Spiders and Their Webs
By: Darlyne Murawski
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A biologist introduces spiders and their webs through stunning full color close-up photographs...
The Bee Tree
By: Patricia Polacco
Age Level: 6-9 years old
When Mary Ellen gets bored with her reading, Grandpa knows a hunt for a bee tree is just what...
The Bee-Man of Orn
By: Frank Stockton
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An aged Bee-man lives contentedly among his insect friends, surviving on honey and the...
The Book of Brilliant Bugs
By: Jess French
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Earth’s creepy crawlies may be small, but they are far from boring! Learn how they contribute to...
The Buzz on Bees: Why Are They Disappearing?
By: Shelly Rotner, Anne Woodhull
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Bees have been around for over 65 million years but have been in decline since early in the 21st...
The Life and Times of the Honeybee
By: Charles Micucci
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The Life Cycle of a Honeybee
By: Bobbie Kalman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Learn about each stage of a honeybee's life cycle from egg to adult. Full-color photographs,...
The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive
By: Joanna Cole
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Readers know they're with Ms. Frizzle and her class when the bus is disguised as a bee and...
The Queen Bee
By: Grimm Brothers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
This is the timeless folktale of a young prince who undoes the terrible spell on a castle by...
What If There Were No Bees?
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live...
Where Do Insects Live?
By: Molly Aloian
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Insects, like all living things, need a place to call home. Readers get a close-up look at...
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs
By: Patricia Lauber
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
What do you and a tuna have in common? You are both part of a food chain that begins with green...
Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
By: Joyce Sidman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How animals survive — even thrive — in winter is presented in a variety of poetic forms, each...
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Print ListBeastly Bionics: Rad Robots, Brilliant Biomimicry, and Incredible Inventions Inspired by Nature
By: Jennifer Swanson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Scientists are turning to biomimicry, or engineering inspired by biology or nature, to make all...
Behold Our Magical Garden: Poems Fresh from a School Garden
By: Allan Wolf
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Poetry
There’s a lot more to gardens than meets the eye! In this collection of poems filled with fun...
Bugged: How Insects Changed History
By: Sarah Albee
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
There are about ten quintillion insects in the world—and some of them have affected human...
Bugs (A Day in the Life)
By: Jessica Ware
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Set over a 24-hour period, meet busy honeybees, transforming caterpillars, and an army of...
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
By: Loree Griffin Burns
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the...
Insect Bodies
By: Molly Aloian
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
There are more than a million species of insects living on Earth, and all insects have similar...
Insect Superpowers
By: Kate Messner
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This action-packed picture book about the incredible yet factual insect abilities found in the...
Insects: The Most Fun Bug Book
By: Sneed Collard
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
This book gets creepy-crawly with many different kinds of insects, detailing their habitats,...
Leaf Litter Critters
By: Leslie Bulion
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Take a poetic tour through the duff and get the dirt on the tiny, fascinating critters that live...
Let’s Eat BUGS!
By: Judy Goldman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Eating bugs might sound unusual to children in the United States, but people all over the world...
Masterpiece
By: Elise Broach
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Fiction
Marvin, a beetle, lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays’ apartment....
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies
By: Joyce Sidman
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Maria Merian was one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the...