Grades
PreK - 5
Books About Bugs for Kids in Grades PreK–5
Have fun exploring insects together with your students using these children’s books.
If your students love bugs, embrace it. These creepy-crawlies allow for kids’ natural curiosity to bloom, and finding something new in the schoolyard or park opens up new ways for them to connect to nature.
Discover the amazing world of insects together with your class through these fascinating books. Whether you’re studying the life cycle of bees with engaging realistic fiction titles or learning about butterfly migration patterns from a beloved picture book, facts about bugs will capture students’ imaginations while introducing them to STEM concepts.
Little ones in preschool through kindergarten will adore the beloved classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar in which an adorable caterpillar eats nearly everything in sight as it prepares to become a beautiful butterfly. Full of laughs and colorful illustrations, this award-winning book is sure to please little readers as they learn their colors, shapes, and sight words.
For a fun study on butterflies, check out Make Way for Butterfly, part of Ross Burach’s popular butterfly series that also includes The Little Butterfly That Could and Goodnight, Butterfly. In this beautifully illustrated book, kids follow a butterfly as it finds out that it plays a crucial role in the environment as a pollinator. Your students will discover how butterflies aid in planting new flowers and replenishing the ecosystem. (Explore even more beautiful butterfly books.)
Fans of nonfiction will be captivated by National Geographic’s deep dive on all kinds of insects in National Geographic Kids: Look and Learn: Bugs. From ladybugs to fireflies, this title delves into what makes insects tick through colorful, highly detailed photographs, fascinating facts, and more. There’s also National Geographic: Bugs and National Geographic: Insects, which explores bugs like grasshoppers, leaf insects, and more up close.
Plus, find out more about what bugs and insects eat, their life cycles, how they build their habitats, and more through books like Fly Guy Presents: Insects, World Discovery Reader: Ants, Bees, and Other Social Insects, and favorites like The Magic School Bus Presents: Insects. You can even practice writing skills in class while learning about bugs with Insectopedia, which is written in verse and filled with lovely illustrations, fun facts, and even silly stories about the natural world.
Find books about insects and bugs for your classroom below. You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.
How many insects can you see?
A hungry caterpillar eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
With fun photos and lively, approachable design, this nonfiction book introduces preschoolers to the world of insects, including favorites such as ladybugs, fireflies, and butterflies.
With whimsical verse and brightly colored collage images, everyone's favorite bugs come to life.
Photographs and simple text describe the many things that insects do.
This book presents photographs of bugs of different colors to reinforce the words for the names of colors.
Introduces the body parts and other characteristics that are common to many kinds of insects.
This stunningly illustrated series offers engaging introductions into a plethora of fascinating nature topics!
Through text features such as a vocabulary tree and wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to vocabulary in concept groups, helping them make connections between words and expand their understanding of the world. Along with brilliant photos and a fun approach to reading, National Geographic Readers are a winning formula with kids, parents, and educators.
Make way for another laugh-out-loud adventure in the Very Impatient Caterpillar series! Perfect for fans of Mo Willems" Pigeon series.
The natural world comes alive for young readers with Rookie Read-About Science! With striking, full-color photos and just the right amount of text, this series immediately involves young readers as they discover intriguing facts about the fascinating world around them.
What do you call a group of butterflies? A kaleidoscope! Discover why this interesting insect lives in groups, where they live and what they eat.
What do you call a group of bees? A swarm! Discover why this interesting insect lives in groups, where they live, and what they eat.
The perfect book for all kids who are fascinated with bugs. Simple text from A to Z provides buggy facts and figures. Larger than life full-color photographs of creepy crawlies include locusts, caterpillars, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, ants, praying mantises, and more!
With vivid full-color photographs on each page as well as illustrations of the beloved Ms. Frizzle and her students, the Magic School Bus Presents series will enthrall a whole new generation of Magic School Bus readers.
In this award-winning science picture book, favorite author Arthur Dorros introduces readers to the fascinating society of ants.
Learn all about insects with Fly Guy and Buzz!
Do you ever wonder where honey comes from? Join Mr. Nelson's mission to rescue a colony of honeybees and return them to safety, all while learning how to respect the bees.
Another fascinating close-up look at the wonders of the natural world from Sibert Honor photographer Nic Bishop.
In this sixth adventure, the DATA Set get shrunken down and go on a buggy adventure across Bunsen"s backyard.
Meet Doug, Abby, and Josh: the BUG SCOUTS! Doug and Abby love everything about being Bug Scouts: their super-duper top-secret headquarters, earning bug badges, wearing scout gear, and, of course, snacks. Josh, meanwhile, is a grump and doesn't like anything (except the snacks).
Wings, legs, tentacles — these 16 insects are facing off to see who will crawl away the winner!
Several types of insects live in large groups called colonies. In this book, read how each member of the colony works to help the whole group.
This book transforms the natural world into a realm where language, art, and entomology join with humor and imagination for a unified flight of fancy. And the spell it casts is greater than the sum of its parts.
This timely series explores the global effects of the extinction of some of the most well known animals on the planet and how climate change is accelerating the extinction of species.
Check out how these amazing, real-life creatures match up. Who's the strongest, fastest, biggest, and baddest-in a fight to the finish, who would win?
