Margaret Warner Morley begins with a plea to young readers: look more than you read, keep a captured insect under a tumbler for a day, and never make it suffer. Then she leads a small class through the orders one by one, from darting dragonflies and short-lived May flies to stone flies, walking sticks and the grasshopper tribe, with Mollie and her friends naming each group aloud.
A warm, conversational introduction to entomology for curious children and the parents who take them outdoors. Download the free EPUB.