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    Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle

    Author Cheryl Bardoe
    Illustrated by Alan Marks
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    Charlesbridge
    11"W x 8-1/2"H
    On sale Mar 11, 2014 | 32 Pages | 9781607347262
    Grades K-3
    Reading Level: Lexile 1000L | Fountas & Pinnell P
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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.
    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
    Alan Marks View titles by Alan Marks
    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.
    Copyright © 2014 by Cheryl Bardoe (Author); Alan Marks (Illustrator). All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    • WINNER | 2015
      Animal Behavior Book Award
    • 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

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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.

    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
    Alan Marks View titles by Alan Marks

    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.
    Copyright © 2014 by Cheryl Bardoe (Author); Alan Marks (Illustrator). All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

    Awards

    • WINNER | 2015
      Animal Behavior Book Award
    • 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

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