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Learn all about bees and their special mouthparts. Easy-to-read text and vibrant, full-color photos captivate young readers and bring these fascinating animals to life.

Readers learn about a variety of insects through simple text and illustrations.

Earth is home to millions of fascinating creatures! Start discovering them with Animal Kingdom. This exciting series explores amazing animal species from all over the world. Each book takes you on a thrilling animal adventure to meet a special creature. Discover what each animal looks like, wher it lives, how it survives, and much more.

A wingless little bug with no name wants to be a bumblebee and begins to search for a pair of wings.

"Addie Ant travels from one garden bed to another on her first solo adventure. As she forges her own path, she gets lost along the way and finds help from her trusted garden pals, Lewis Ladybug, Beatrix Butterfly, and Cleo Cricket, in finding her way back home. A celebration of friendship, this sweet book is a collaboration by renowned, musical artist Maren Morris and former schoolteacher and close friend Karina Argow. Artist Kelly Anne Dalton brings...

A wistful blue squirrel and an athletic red rabbit are each looking for a friend and missing each other by inches, although helpful bugs are trying to steer them in the right direction.

If there's one thing Maybelle the cockroach can't resist, it's cake. So when Mrs. Peabody bakes her famous Ten Layer Tower of Taste for the school bake sale, Maybelle finds herself in the school lunchroom-and chaos ensues! Food fights, tarantulas, and the requisite car chase scene complete this hilarious new adventure for everyone's favorite cockroach character.

Lately, Crick is feeling down. It's up to the Beat Bugs to cheer him up in their own special way. But will it be just what Crick needs?

Rhyming verse presents buggy word problems that can all be solved using multiplication.

Patterns are found in math, reading, science, music, art, dance, and poetry-and in the world all around us. They are also found in this delightful book written by educator Trudy Harris. Children will love the humor and predictability of this story, and teachers and parents alike will appreciate the pattern hunt that will send kids back into the book looking for more patterns again and again.