The Nature Kid's Guide to Grasshoppers: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Grasshoppers!

Boing! An insect spots a bird diving toward it, loads up its back legs like a catapult, and launches 20 times its own body length into the air. It's a grasshopper, and it was gone before the bird could even blink! If your child has ever walked through a field and watched the grass explode with jumping insects, this book finally explains everything going on out there. Did you know grasshoppers hear with their bellies, not their heads? That a locust swarm can hold more insects than there are people on Earth? That some grasshoppers spit brown juice that tastes so terrible predators never try them twice? "The Nature Kid's Guide to Grasshoppers" takes curious kids ages 7-12 deep inside the world of one of Earth's oldest and most overlooked insects. Why do grasshoppers chirp faster when it gets warmer? How does a locust transform from a peaceful loner into part of a swarm that blots out the sun? What makes the painted grasshopper so toxic that birds learn to avoid its colors forever? Your child will be reading facts out loud before they finish the first chapter. Short, punchy sentences and surprising facts fill every page. From tiny half-inch grasshoppers that sit on a dime, to massive locust swarms traveling 80 miles in a single day, to grasshoppers that regrow their own legs after losing them, every page brings a new discovery. A book for every kid who thinks grasshoppers are the coolest bugs around. There are more than 11,000 kinds of grasshoppers in the world, more than all bird species combined, and they've been hopping across this planet for over 250 million years. Once your child discovers just how extraordinary they really are, they'll never walk through a meadow the same way again. Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!

Pagina's: 40, Paperback, LP Media Inc