It's a bit like picking a favorite child. If you ask me to choose, I can't, because just look at these beauties! Dianna Aston and Sylvia Long team up to create books that hold a treasure of extensive collections. It's as if you open a box from an explorer that has traveled the world to build up a systematic survey of each topic. In a Beetle is Shy , the author draws the reader into the life cycle, not with a diagram, but with a feeling: A beetle is shy. She then describes the life cycle of a typical beetle (which is not easy to narrow down) and uses familiar words like "hard outer skin" to introduce "exoskeleton" and "cocoon-like" to introduce "pupa". She then blasts the reader with a full spread of a beetle collection. The author then explores the strange and unique characteristics of beetles, including, iridescence (kaleidoscopic), size (colossal and microscopic), edibility (tasty, she spares readers the image here), adaptati...
