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by David Anderson (Author)
Crack! A tiny green worm pushes out of its shell, and gets straight to work eating everything in sight. It's a caterpillar, and it's one of the coolest animals on earth.
If your child thinks caterpillars are just slow little worms, this book is about to change that forever. Did you know a caterpillar has 4,000 muscles, six times more than humans? That some can survive being frozen solid all winter and thaw out still crawling in spring? That the hickory horned devil grows as long as a hot dog and looks absolutely terrifying but is completely harmless?
"The Nature Kid's Guide to Caterpillars" takes curious kids ages 7-12 on a wild journey through one of nature's most jaw-dropping transformations. How does a caterpillar completely dissolve its own body inside a chrysalis and rebuild into a butterfly? Why do puss caterpillars hide venomous spines under their soft, fluffy fur? What makes monarch caterpillars immune to a poison that would kill most other animals? Your child will be reading facts out loud before they turn the second page.
Short, punchy sentences and incredible surprises fill every page. From cinnabar caterpillars that eat toxic weeds and store the poison in their own bodies, to swallowtails that disguise themselves as bird droppings, every caterpillar in this book is stranger and more extraordinary than the last.
A book for every kid who has ever spotted something crawling on a leaf and wondered what it would become.
There are over 180,000 kinds of butterflies and moths, and every single one started life as a caterpillar. Once your child discovers just how remarkable that journey really is, they'll never look at a leaf the same way again.
Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. The transformation starts here.
