A Dog’s Book of Bugs is a children’s nonfiction picture book about insects and the small, active world they inhabit. Written by Elizabeth Griffen with drawings by Peter Parnall, the book introduces young readers to bugs through a playful framing device: it is “for dogs that like bugs” and for anyone curious about their buzzing, leaping, creeping and crawling lives. The focus on familiar creatures such as ladybugs, beetles and grasshoppers gives the book a simple natural-science angle, while the illustrations invite close looking at movement, shape and behavior. The book suits early readers who are beginning to notice the living world around them and want to understand what makes even very small animals worth watching.
Author: Elizabeth Griffen
Publisher: Atheneum / Aladdin
Publication year: 1967
Number of pages: 64
Original language: English
Target age: 6–9