Jeff Corwin introduces readers to invertebrates of the southwestern United States, including desert hairy scorpions, giant vinegaroons, tarantulas, trap-door spiders, pinacate beetles, and others.

Frankie Fairy loves to learn about creepy crawly critters in her own backyard! Now that she's at a new school, she's excited to learn even more about them! Instead, she learns that the other fairy kids in class think she's the creepy one. Is Frankie really that scary? And if she is—is that really a bad thing? Maybe her creepy crawly friends can help her figure it out!

Itchy witches, groaning ghosts, and plump pumpkins are just a few of the characters in this collection of giggle-producing Halloween tongue twisters. It's so much fun, it's like trick-or-treating for your tongue!

Readers learn about wood lice, their life cycle, behavior and more.

Enter the weird and wonderful world of creepy-crawlies. Our animal experts have unearthed 40 of the planet’s most bizarre species and ranked them in order of their oddness! With jaw-dropping facts and amazing photos, we reveal each creature’s seriously strange characteristics and the unusual ways they hunt, eat or defend themselves. They’re sometimes hard to spot, but there are a mind-boggling 10 billion billion bugs on the planet. Inside World’s Strangest Creepy-Crawlies, kids will discover the tiny terror that blows itself up to save its friends, a creature so well disguised even its own species can’t see it, and a giant spider the size of a dinner plate. And with our ‘strange-o-meter’, they can compare each animal based on its creepiness, fight factor and superpowers! Creepy-crawlies include: Elephant beetle Hickory horned devil Happy-face spider Zombie snail Leafcutter ant Froghopper Spiny devil katydid Goliath birdeater spider Giant weta Asian giant hornet Scorpion Death’s-head hawkmoth Bird-dung crab spider Exploding ant Other titles in the series include: - World’s Strangest Predators - World’s Strangest Places - World’s Strangest Ocean Beasts About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let’s start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place – inspiring children at home and in school. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Kids will love getting grossed out with Super Gross Creepy-Crawly Projects! They'll learn about some of the creepy-crawly critters in the world. Then discover how to make fun projects inspired by these and other gross critters. Young crafters will follow simple instructions and photos to create bug prints, spiderwebs, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Rhyming text tells the story of creepy animals with unlikely colors such as an orange gecko, a purple beetle, and a blue eel.