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(More customer reviews)"The Bugs Fandex"
(Workman Publishing)
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This is a fun, graphically striking educational tool, a "fandex" in which attached pages fan out from a central spoke, and each page gives information about a specific insect or bug. It's a nice educational item -- each page has information on the front and back, and while the text is densely packed, it is well balanced with the graphic design, in which the legs and antennae of various species poke out from the upper edges. As a field guide it may have limited uses, though... Many of the bugs are fairly common -- praying mantis, ants, etc. -- while others, which are chosen for their wow factor (like the scarab beetle) are unlikely to be found on your average field trip. Also, the uneven, unusual, multiple edges of the unique pages can make it difficult to put the pages back in place once the fan has been unfurled. This is certainly true for smaller children, so it might be frustrating if used out in the real world. For at-home use, though, this can be a lot of fun. The visual element is quite strong, and the information behind it seems pretty solid. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews)
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A perfect marriage: bugs, kids, and Fandex. Meet South America's Hercules Beetle, as big as a dollar bill and the strongest creature on earth, able to lift 850 times its body weight. (That's like a 100-pound person lifting four school buses!) The Black Widow Spider, whose females, contrary to reputation, rarely eat their mates. And the wonderfully bizarre Walking Stick, sometimes called "Frankenstick" for its ability to reattach its own severed head. Plus Treehoppers and Leafhoppers, centipedes and millipedes, stealthy Assassin Bugs, and twelve thousand varieties of ant. Bringing the world's most fascinating creepy-crawlies—insects, spiders, scorpions, and other Arthropoda—to your fingertips, Bugs combines fascinating information about 48 creatures with die-cut, full-color photographs that reveal their subjects' shimmery wings, iridescent shells, vivid hues, and bold shapes in astonishing detail. Every card includes a detailed description, habitat and scientific name, lore, field notes on lifecycle, identifiers, and size, as well as sidebars covering topics such as the fly's ability to walk upside-down and how bees make honey.
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