In Bug Off! readers meet thirteen bugs in playful, humorous poems and startling, intimate photographs. Nonfiction prose paragraphs broaden the perspective: Children will learn how bees make honey, that many butterflies can taste food with their feet, that lovebugs can fly higher than the Empire State Building, and much more. The subjects will be familiar to kids—a fly, praying mantis, honeybee, butterfly, daddy longlegs, lovebug, dragonfly, tick, ladybug, spider, grasshopper, ants, and a swarm of bugs—but the poems, photographs, and nonfiction passages present them in eye-opening new ways. Includes an author's note that encourages readers to write their own bug poems.

Highlighted through several themes, Franco presents more than 30 perfect poems with instant activities to enrich lessons, build literacy, and celebrate the joy of the written word. Illustrations.

First comes the spider, banging steel drums.

Joshua Wootton (PO/3T) explores love, sex and "Mother earths delicious treats" in this fine volume of poetry by one of Britains most exciting new poetic talents

A collection of frightening and not so frightening poems for children.

A whimsical tribute to naughty and mischievous insects features sixteen pieces by children's poets including Marilyn Singer, J. Patrick Lewis, and Rebecca Andrew Loescher, and includes such satirical entries as "Ode to a Dead Mosquito" and "Termite Tune."