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What About Ladybugs? (Sierra Club Books (Sierra))

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I was looking for books that I could purchase for our daughter who loves ladybugs when I came across this one. It is not your average ladybug book in which there is a main character who is a humanized ladybug (we have those too!). Yet it is not a hard science book telling you scientific data about ladybugs. It is a story about a gardener who finds out the hard way how important ladybugs are to his garden, and in the process how all of the living things in the garden are intertwined.

The idea that bugs are beneficial is incorporated into the beginning of the story, telling, for example, how the gardener knew that butterflies are good for the garden, but that when they are still caterpillars they are not. The plot of the book is that the gardener, in search of garden perfection, decides that he wants to get rid of the "bad" bugs so he sprays the garden with pesticide. The balance of nature in the garden is then thrown off and he ends up with a way worse situation than he had to start with, including an overabundance of aphids. It is then ladybugs to the rescue!

This book delivers a "green" message without being preachy in any way. It would be an enjoyable story for a ladybug lover, a bug lover, a nature lover, or a little gardener.