Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Turner highlights small but mighty creatures-including ticks, fleas, lice, millipedes, and tapeworms-in one of four titles kicking off the Crazy Creepy Crawlers series, illustrated through a combination of photographs and comics-style sequences. Highly magnified images of the microscopic creatures reveal the fine details on their pincers, legs, antennae, and outer shells, while captions and bursts deliver facts about their habits, characteristics, and surprising abilities ("A flea can jump 30,000 times nonstop"). The bugs reappear in Calle's comics, which are filled with science-based gags and one-liners. "Ah, food!... Oh no, wait, that's just me," says a centipede looking at its own tail, after readers learn that the arthropods "don't mind a bit of cannibalism." It's an irreverent but informative introduction to some impressive specimens that slither, creep, crawl, and bite. Simultaneously available: Extraordinary Insects, Flying Creepy Crawlies, and Deadly Spiders. Ages 3-6. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Horn Book Review
This series takes a close-up look at creatures that many children find fascinatingly creepy. Illustrated with zoomed-in photographs and comics segments (including humorous speech-bubble comments), the volumes provide ample information to satisfy budding entomologists and enough levity to benefit those less drawn to "creepy crawlers." The layouts favor visuals over text, with tiny type densely packed into boxes and sidebars. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Crazy Creepy Crawlers titles: Deadly Spiders, Extraordinary Insects, Flying Creepy Crawlers, and Tiny Creepy Crawlers.] (c) Copyright 2018. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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