Captain Bob of the Bug Patrol keeps a watchful eye on bugs everywhere.

When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!

There's a small green frog on a half-sunk log in the middle of the bog. He eats one tick, two fleas, three flies, four slugs, and five snails. And the frog gets a whole lot bigger. Then a hungry gator shows up, ready to eat the big fat frog. The frog opens his mouth wide to scream and out comes everything he's eaten! And the frog gets a whole lot smaller. The gator swims off, the frog keeps away from the log, and the insects keep away from the frog....

"Uncover five nature stories in a single garden. Watch a butterfly drink nectar and a ladybug hatch from an egg as you lift the double-layer lift flaps in 1... 2... 3!"--Back cover.

In this retelling of the parable of the wise and foolish builders, two wasps take the opposite approach to building their houses, with predictable results.

Dan Tavis's humorous illustrations crank up the delight, and a child wanting to learn more will find it in the natural-history backmatter. Pat Brisson employs a variety of verse forms in the book, and she shows how it's done in a back-of-book feature called "A Peek into the Poet's Toolkit."

Bugs of all shapes, colors, and sizes--including bed bugs, cute bugs, live bugs, and dead bugs--are presented in illustrations and rhyme.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text portray bugs of all kinds busily going about their days. Includes facts about each bug pictured.

On her very first day of life, Little Miss Spider searches for her mother and finds love in an unexpected place.