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World's Strangest Creepy Crawlies

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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.

ISBN: 9781787012974
Pub Date: 1st August 2018
Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Limited
Imprint: Lonely Planet Global Limited
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 80

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bexstonehill Adult 17 book reviews

21st November '18

I read it to benjinarracott aged 8 aged 8

What a fantastic book! I read with my son a different bug each night and now he says each night, 'Please can we have a bug?'
My older daughters are also very amused by it - the pictures and fun facts are great as is the presentation.
Great book.

CathC Adult 208 book reviews

31st October '18

I read it to RC13 aged 5 aged 5

This is at great book about the more wild and wonderful creepy crawlies. My daughter loved the pictures. It's a brilliant book for dipping in and out of for random facts. I'm not sure who's enjoying it more- my husband or my daughter!

Josh11 Aged 6 1 book

31st October '18

Josh11 read it themselves aged 6 aged 6

I liked how there were lots of different creepy crawlies in the book some I hadn't heard of before.My favourite was the bird-dung crab spider.
I liked how the creatures were rated.
This book was really interesting and I learned lots of new things.

MusicalM Adult 3 book reviews

10th November '18

I read it to HarryD aged 5 aged 5 & to OscarD aged 3 aged 3

I loved this book and so did my two children aged 5 and 4!
My children loved looking at the p tyres while I told them facts about the creepy creatures! The pictures were captivating and my children loved the 'energy bars' on each page!
Fantastic book!

Tanya Adult 314 book reviews

6th November '18

I read it to Ibby aged 6 aged 6

This is a brilliant book about creepy crawlies. Full of bright images and fun facts. It is very educational but very fun at the same time. My family love it!

Traceymitch Adult 57 book reviews

11th November '18

I read it to Ellie14 aged 4 aged 4

This is a fun and educational book with great illustrations and facts about these fascinating creatures, certainly enjoyed by all the family.

Beechbear Aged 6 3 books

22nd October '18

Beechbear read it themselves aged 6 aged 6

I really like this book and learning about lots of bugs. It has lots of interesting things in it.

derekdd83 Adult 123 book reviews

17th September '18

I read it myself (an adult) , to seany aged 9 aged 9 , to Princesskatie aged 2 aged 2 , to busterboy aged 6 aged 6 , to Tinkerbell aged 9 aged 9 & to joshua2018 aged 7 months aged 0

Really interesting book. My favourite was the froghopper.

cashisbest Aged 7 2 books

18th February '19

cashisbest read it themselves aged 7 aged 7

my daughter absolutely loves this book she was a avid bug collector, and is now a bigger one .

B.hubbard Aged 5 14 books

2nd November '18

B.hubbard read it themselves aged 5 aged 5

A bright interesting book, beautiful big pictures on each page explaining all about a strange creepy crawly. Very interesting facts, and a lot to learn from this book. Enjoyed by me and my son.

luke-from-sudbury Adult 476 book reviews

12th September '18

I read it to FreddyBoggis aged 6 aged 6

This book is great, it's packed full of facts about all these strange creatures. The picture pic really good too. My little boy really enjoyed looking through this and hearing about all these creatures. The quizz is fun too.

LizTwinMum Adult 98 book reviews

20th March '19

I read it to RoseMars aged 6 aged 6

My six year old girl loved reading this book with me. The pictures are very bright and interesting without being too scary for young readers. She has been carrying this book around with her all the time and quoting interesting facts to anyone who will listen. A fascinating, fun, factual book for all the future entomologists out there.

13rebecca13 Adult 24 book reviews

29th December '18

I read it to Cjamison aged 6 aged 6

My six year old son LOVED this. He's always been an inquisitive child, always asking questions about anything and everything, so fact books like this are perfect. He is very into nature too so a book about facts on creepy crawlies is right up his street. A lot of them, he hadn't heard of before and was so intrigued to find out more. I love that he was so into the book and learning at the same time. It's full of imagery and fun facts - perfect for little ones!

Mummy.V Adult 12 book reviews

30th October '18

I read it to kenzie.J aged 7 aged 7

real interesting book

jane Adult 9 book reviews

30th October '18

I read it to digger1 aged 6 aged 6

"It was funny and creepy. And I think it's like 12/12 or 1000/1000, it's so good. I think I liked the fact that it can tell you more about creepy crawlies. I really liked the bird dung crab spider because it disguises itself as bird poo!" William, age 6.

This book is set out really well with scores on a strangeometer for creepiness and bug beauty etc. The facts are funny and memorable. What six year olds can resist bird poo spiders and exploding ants?

I was going to keep this for Christmas but couldn't resist giving it to him this half term. He loves it! I would really recommend it.

SnipSkye Adult 10 book reviews

21st September '18

I read it to SnipSkye 2 aged 10 aged 10

This book has opened my daughter's eyes to the weird and wonderful creatures such as the exploding ant, zombie snail, mirror spider and much more. My daughter is obsessed with bugs and found World Strangest Creepy - Crawlies fascinating. I give this book 10/10

Ragdollkhan Adult 323 book reviews

13th September '18

I read it to Ragdollkhanbaby aged 6 aged 6

What a great book, packed full of interesting facts, amazing photos it had my son's interest for a long period of time. Couple this with a quiz and some really interesting bugs I would really highly recommend this book.

Ragdollkhan Adult 323 book reviews

13th September '18

I read it to Ragdollkhanbaby aged 6 aged 6

pauladonegan Adult 160 book reviews

13th September '18

I read it to eric_ aged 5 aged 5

Great book for curious kids that love animals and specially creepy crawlies. The photos are amazing! My son loved looking at all the pages and learning interesting facts about each one of the creepy crawlies. Each page (or two) is dedicated to one of them and they give some interesting information and show a map of where around the world they can be found, which my son enjoyed as well, since he's finding out about places around the world. He also enjoyed the ratings given to each of the creepy crawlies to rate them in the top 40. Everyone in the family learned a lot about some special and quite different creepy crawlies.

BellaCam Aged 7 116 books

22nd September '18

BellaCam read it themselves aged 7 aged 7

What an interesting book full of interesting looking bugs and things. My daughter loved seeing the Happy-face spider and reading facts about it. A wonderful book to interest kids.

Alex0512 Aged 7 92 books

26th September '18

Alex0512 read it themselves aged 7 aged 7

I liked this book as it had lots of unusual creatures that I had not seen before. They looked strange but it was interesting to read about them and now I look for them when out and about.

It is good to know about lesser known creatures.

Kellchras Adult 13 book reviews

7th December '18

I read it to Agnes Elodie aged 4 aged 4

A very bright, enticing book, full of great beastly facts about creepy crawlies.... and believe me they are creepy! All my kids, ages ranged from 2 to 8 loved seeing mummy squirm looking at some of these beasties, which, of course, created mass amusement!

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