About This Book

In this magnificently illustrated picture book, Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins explores form, color, and pattern while capturing the very unique nature of beetles. The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on Earth is a beetle. There are over 300,000 different species named so far, and scientists suspect there may be as many as a million. From the goliath beetle that weighs one-fourth of a pound to the nine-inch-long titan beetle, Jenkins presents a fascinating array of these intriguing insects and the many amazing adaptations they have made to survive.