This title in the Bugs series features some of the great athletes and musicians of the insect world. The book explores how grasshoppers can jump twenty times the length of their bodies, how they produce their songs, the many places they live, their life cycle, and what grasshoppers eat. Included in the grasshopper family are katydids, and locusts that gather in swarms of billions, eating everything in sight.
"This series introduces the reader to different bugs using colorful photographs and descriptive captions.
These books would be very useful to oyung student who are in need of basic information about the black widow, centipede, cockroach, grasshopper, and several other bugs that compromise this series. Recommended".
--Library Media Connection, October 2005
Price: US $27.80