Go on a fascinating nature hunt to find all kinds of camouflaged animals hiding in brilliantly painted pages. Please see individual seller's condition notes for number and titles of volumes.
Five stars to all of Ruth Heller's parts of speech books and almost all her science ones. (And four stars to the rest.) Somehow I never saw this one before, and I learned something: flies, even the ones that look like bees, have only one pair of wings, but bees have two pairs.
That's the thing with her books: they're not only absolutely beautiful, even to the point of being art for the wall, but they're educational for a variety of levels of knowledge. Even though I learned something new, this book is accessible even to pre-schoolers.
Although this was included with our homeschool curriculum, we misplaced this book and found it a month after we did the rest of our unit on butterflies. We enjoyed the book quite a bit, although we had a hard time spotting the bug hiding among the twigs on the blossoming tree. Leave it to my husband to spot it instantly! I just didn't expect it to be that large!
I had this as a kid and was thrilled when my dad found our copy so that I could read it to my kids. I still love the illustrations because they show how clever these animals are at camouflage!