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All About Bugs
OVERVIEW OF SUBJECT
You should have no
problem completing research material for a book on bugs. There are
hundreds of web sites from which you can collect information. In fact,
there is so much information available from your desk top that you
probably won't even need to read and research any books at all. And yes,
it's true there are several good books about bugs written for kids. But
there is also a big demand for books on this subject. Just find a boy,
anywhere in the world, who hasn't at some point in his life expressed an
interest in bugs. You could also approach this idea from a couple of
different angles. You could, of course, write in typical format with
standard insight into the world of bugs, but you could also write the book
as if from a bug's viewpoint. Or perhaps some combination of the two.
(Sidebars with the bug's perspective?) You could also include many "top
ten" lists. What insects or spiders make up the largest percentage of
bugs? What spiders have the most toxic venom? What bugs are almost
extinct? Which bugs are the friendliest? Which are considered the biggest
pests?
"God in his wisdom made the fly, and then
forgot to tell us why" –Ogden Nash
ALTERNATE BOOK TITLE (or sub-title) IDEAS:
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A Bug's-Eye View of the World
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A Boy's Handbook to All Kinds of Bugs
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Don't Bug Me! The Complete Guide to a
Bug's World
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A Day In The Life of a Bug
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The
Bug Book: Or Everything Your Mom Doesn't Want to Know About Insects and
Spiders
Don't
Forget to Include "DID YOU KNOW...?" sidebars or insets
● A desert bee larve
can stay submerged in the sand for a year or longer in order to improve
their chances for survival?
● The Pompeii worm
can live in places where the temperature is more than 300 degrees Celsius?
● That beetles are
the most numerous kind of insect in the world?
BOOKS IN PRINT:
Everything Bug: What Kids Really Want to Know about Bugs
-- by Cherie Winner
Big Book of Bugs
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by Theresa Greenaway
The Best Book of Bugs
-- by Claire Llewellyn
WEBSITES WITH GOOD RESEARCH MATERIAL:
HomeSchooling.gomilpitas.com
BugGuide.net
BugBios.com
BEST KEYWORDS AND
PHRASES:
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All about bugs
● Bugs for kids
● Insects and
bugs
● Entomology
● Introduction
study of insects
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