By Melissa Stewart
A first fact-reader that lets a bug lover read about ant colonies mostly on their own.
This is a starter reader all about ants, built for a child just beginning to read alone. Big photographs of real ants sit next to short, simple sentences about how a colony works: the queen, the workers, the way they talk to each other with smell, how they carry loads many times their own weight and build whole nests underground. The words are chosen so a new reader can get through a real fact page and feel like a scientist.
This is the book that turns 'I love bugs' into 'I can read a book about bugs by myself.' National Geographic pairs real photographs with sentences pitched right at a brand-new reader, so a bug-obsessed child gets both the facts they crave and an easy, proud early read. There are dozens more of these readers, so when this one clicks you have a long line of them waiting.