If your students love bugs, embrace it. These creepy-crawlies allow for kids’ natural curiosity to bloom, and finding something new in the schoolyard or park opens up new ways for them to connect to nature. 

Discover the amazing world of insects together with your class through these fascinating books. Whether you’re studying the life cycle of bees with engaging realistic fiction titles or learning about butterfly migration patterns from a beloved picture book, facts about bugs will capture students’ imaginations while introducing them to STEM concepts. 

Little ones in preschool through kindergarten will adore the beloved classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar in which an adorable caterpillar eats nearly everything in sight as it prepares to become a beautiful butterfly. Full of laughs and colorful illustrations, this award-winning book is sure to please little readers as they learn their colors, shapes, and sight words.

For a fun study on butterflies, check out Make Way for Butterfly, part of Ross Burach’s popular butterfly series that also includes The Little Butterfly That Could and Goodnight, Butterfly. In this beautifully illustrated book, kids follow a beautiful butterfly as it finds out that it plays a crucial role in the environment as a pollinator. Your students will discover how butterflies aid in planting new flowers and replenishing the ecosystem. (Explore even more beautiful butterfly books.) 

Fans of nonfiction will be captivated by National Geographic’s deep dive on all kinds of insects in National Geographic Kids: Look and Learn: Bugs. From ladybugs to fireflies, this title delves into what makes insects tick through colorful, highly detailed photographs, fascinating facts, and more. There’s also National Geographic: Bugs and National Geographic: Insects, which explores bugs like grasshoppers, leaf insects, and more up close. 

Plus, find out more about what bugs and insects eat, their life cycles, how they build their habitats, and more through books like Fly Guy Presents: Insects, World Discovery Reader: Ants, Bees, and Other Social Insects, and favorites like The Magic School Bus Presents: Insects. You can even practice writing skills in class while learning about bugs with Insectopedia, which is written in verse and filled with lovely illustrations, fun facts, and even silly stories about the natural world. 

Find the perfect bug book for your classroom with these books about insects and bugs below. You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.