This DK Reader is at the high 2nd Grade reading level.

This means that BUGS AND US has more complicated concepts, but still features a large font, and less text per page than you would get at higher levels.

Here's the sample text from one page:

Dragonflies eat 300 to 400 mosquitoes a day.
Praying mantises and green lacewings feast
on insects, large and small. But, soon, other
animals will eat them!

I like the approach that DK and Patricia Murphy takes with this material. The book begins by admitting that bugs do bug us. It then goes on to show though that our lives are dependent upon bugs. That they not only make honey and silk, but they pollinate our crops, and actually provide pest control by eating even peskier bugs. Not to mention that they can be food for people.

One diagram that labels the parts of insects. Most photos are interesting, although there is one or two are a bit muddy.

A nice introduction. ( )