During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.

All the insects agree that the object that fell from the sky is a Wonder, but when Spider decides it is his, he risks losing all of his friends.

"Friends Horse and Buggy take to the ice, where Horse's overconfidence leads to a spectacular fall, but a quick recovery."--

After being shrunk by a shrinking machine, Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot encounter drain flies, a cockroach, and worse as they work their way through Mrs. Scuttle's house toward safety.

A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. Will the firefly ever find its friends?

Mr. Mosquito saves the insect ball from an intruding bear.

From Ruth Krauss, the celebrated children's book author of The Carrot Seed and A Hole Is to Dig, comes this never-before-published book of witty one-liners-brought to life by Geisel Honor-winning artist Sergio Ruzzier. Dance with a leaf. Jump like a raindrop. Sit in the sun and shine. Not since A Hole Is to Dig and Open House for Butterflies have we seen such electric and playful words on a page. This imaginative story from Ruth Krauss-one of the...

After Elizabeth's parents do not agree with her various suggestions for the perfect pet, she discovers a solution.

No one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.

"A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room, where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance, the five stages of grief, as it comes to terms with its fate."--Publisher.