Are bugs heroes, villains, or just creepy little animals? Alexandra Siy presents "rap sheets" on several categories of bugs and takes an amazingly close look at some of the types of insects we see every day (and some we don't), The book's photo micrographs magnify insect parts from 10 to 300,000 times their actual sizes. The result is an entertaining and clever way to introduce kids to biology and science. The writing is good, and the text is kid friendly. ( )

A friend pulled it and put it on Z's hold shelf at the library . . . nice catch, since it was electron microscope pictures couples with actual science terminology. Z didn't love the whole "FBI" angle but did like the explanation of scientific classification using a file cabinet analogy. ( )