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Bugs for Lunch
Margery Facklam
Hardcover (Charlesbridge, Feb. 1, 1999)Bon appetit! Kudos to Chef Nature for dishing up these tasty morsels. No reader with a discriminating palate will be able to put this delicious menu of appetizing delicacies down. BUGS FOR LUNCH caters to a full array of creatures–animal, plant, and human–that munch on bugs. From a mantis perched and ready to prey on ladybugs and butterflies, to the honey-drenched fur of a big brown bear munching on a hive full of bees, Sylvia Long's vivid illustrations show close-up details of all sorts of creatures munching on their lunch. These colorful drawings of creatures that live to eat bugs will be your key to discovering a world of insectivores in your own backyard and beyond.
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New York: The Empire State
Margery Facklam
Hardcover (Charlesbridge, July 1, 2007)Mother and daughter co-authors, Margery Facklam and Peggy Thomas, explore their home state region by region, offering historical accounts, natural history facts, and sightseeing suggestions. Detailed illustrations capture the diversity and beauty of this grand state.
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Spiders and their web sites
Margery Facklam
Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 2002)None
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Wild Animals, Gentle Women
Margery Facklam
Hardcover (Harcourt, Aug. 1, 1978)Describes the experiences of eleven women who study animal behavior: Belle Benchley, Ruth Harkness, Jane Goodall, Kay McKeever, Hope Buyukmihci, Karen Pryor, Eugenie Clark, Dian Fossey, BirutÂe Galdikas, Leone Pippard, and Heather Malcolm.
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Tracking Dinosaurs In The Gobi
Margery Facklam
Library Binding (21st Century, Dec. 9, 1997)Describes the work of paleontologists, beginning with Roy Chapman Andrews in the 1920s, who have searched in the Gobi Desert for evidence of dinosaurs
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Bugs for Lunch
Margery Facklam, Sylvia Long
Paperback (Charlesbridge, Feb. 1, 1999)Discover the variety of bug-eaters—animal, plant, even human—in this exploration of both poetry and the natural world. Facklam’s playful rhymes mixed with Long’s vivid illustrations introduce young readers to an array of creatures as they munch on lunch. From a mantis perched and ready to prey on ladybugs, a spider trapping a fly, to the honey-drenched fur of a big brown bear chewing on a hive full of bees, Bugs for Lunch will give curious readers plenty of food for thought delivered in a playful package.
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The Trouble With Mothers
Margery Facklam
Hardcover (Clarion Books, April 1, 1989)What is a boy to do when his teacher-mother's historical novel is given as an example of the kind of "pornography" that should be banned from schools and libraries?
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The Big Bug Book
Margery Facklam, Paul Facklam
School & Library Binding (Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1994)Thirteen of the world's largest insects are described in a conversational, fact-filled text and full-color illustrations that show creepy life-size comparisons to familiar objects. By the author of Partners for Life.
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Bugs for Lunch by Margery Facklam
Margery Facklam
Hardcover (Charlesbridge, Jan. 1, 1854)None
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Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars
Margery Facklam, Paul Facklam
Hardcover (Little Brown & Co, Feb. 1, 1996)Describing thirteen types of caterpillars, a young reader's guide profiles the anatomy, behavior, growth process, and metamorphosis of such varieties as the North American banded woolly bear and the Hawaiian green grappler.
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Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars
Margery Facklam
Paperback (Little Brown & Co (Juv), March 15, 1996)None
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Partners for Life: The Mysteries of Animal Symbiosis
Margery Facklam
Library Binding (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1989)Explores one of the most integral and fascinating aspects of animal behavior--the working together of two very different species for the benefit of either or both
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