Bug Wars
Sholto Walker
Hardcover
(Barron's Educational Series, Jan. 16, 2009)
Kids are fascinated by bugs, and this combination fact book and board game will keep them entertained for hours. Each two-page spread presents a dramatically magnified, scientifically accurate, full-color illustration of a specific bug, surrounded by a description of its features and traits, fascinating facts-at-a-glance sidebars, and smaller illustrations of related creatures. Insects, arachnids, and other bugs shown on card-stock pages are-- * Ants * Spiders * Scorpions * Praying Mantises * Wasps * Beetles * Grasshoppers * Flies * and Centipedes The book's final two-page spread pops up when opened to present a fun-to-play board game. Attached to the inside back cover and showing through the front cover die-cut is a container holding the game's playing pieces--a set of very realistic plastic bugs, dice, and special playing cards for a Bug Wars card game.