Dung is a precious pile of food and drink for these beetles.
Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close-up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle. When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene. They battle over, devour, hoard, and lay their eggs in the precious poop. Dung is food, drink, and fuel for new life—as crucial to these beetles as the beetles are to many habitats, including our own.
Back matter includes instructions for finding dung beetles, fun facts, glossary, and a selected bibliography.
Somewhere in the world right now an animal is lightening its load— in your backyard, on a nearby farm, in a forest, on a grassland far away.
WINNER
| 2015 John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers
NOMINEE
| 2015 Cook Prize
SELECTION
| 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS)'s Science Books & Films Best List
SELECTION
| 2015 NSTA-CBC - Outstanding Science Trade Book
Cheryl Bardoe is the author of two Orbis Pictus Honor books, Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age (Abrams, 2010) and Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas (Abrams, 2006), as well as The Ugly Duckling Dinosaur: A Prehistoric Tale (Abrams, 2011). She lives near Hartford, Connecticut, with her family.
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Dung is a precious pile of food and drink for these beetles.
Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close-up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle. When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene. They battle over, devour, hoard, and lay their eggs in the precious poop. Dung is food, drink, and fuel for new life—as crucial to these beetles as the beetles are to many habitats, including our own.
Back matter includes instructions for finding dung beetles, fun facts, glossary, and a selected bibliography.
Excerpt
Somewhere in the world right now an animal is lightening its load— in your backyard, on a nearby farm, in a forest, on a grassland far away.
WINNER
| 2015 John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers
NOMINEE
| 2015 Cook Prize
SELECTION
| 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS)'s Science Books & Films Best List
SELECTION
| 2015 NSTA-CBC - Outstanding Science Trade Book
Author
Cheryl Bardoe is the author of two Orbis Pictus Honor books, Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age (Abrams, 2010) and Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas (Abrams, 2006), as well as The Ugly Duckling Dinosaur: A Prehistoric Tale (Abrams, 2011). She lives near Hartford, Connecticut, with her family.
View titles by Cheryl Bardoe
