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A game of hide-and-seek forms the backdrop of a mosquito's life cycle. Micrographs show details of the mosquito and what she sees as she searches.

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This is the best kind of children's book because it is informative, brilliantly laid out, and totally engrossing. Two parallel stories come together to explain how a mosquito works.
This is a fun book to share with students about a bug everyone encounters, the mosquito. It's a fun twist because it also gives the mosquito's perspective on life. It explains the life cycle, gives pictures, and fun details bout the insect. This is a great book to tie into a science lesson when learning about insects or life cycles.
When I read this book I thought it was going to explore scientifically a mosquito’s bite. While it made a token effort to touch on that subject, it was mostly about the life cycle of the mosquito. Towards the end there was a section about the health problems mosquito’s cause throughout the world. The best part of the book were the beautiful pictures. The pictures were in color and gave detailed perspectives on the different parts of the mosquito.

I wouldn’t have this book in my library because it doesn’t talk a lot about what I think is the most interesting thing about a mosquito, which is how it bites and what it does to you. I would also choose a book that talked in more detail about the devastation mosquitos can cause.
Mosquitoes are extremely common to our environment. Therefore, reading and learning about the insect is important, as well as interesting. This book provides the reader with a unique perspective, which is from the mosquito, Culex pipiens. It not only explains but, also demonstrates why mosquitoes bite, how they breed, their life cycle, and provides the reader with diagrams. Also, in the back of the book, there is a glossary, as well as additional information.
Fascinating pictures taken by a scanning electron microscope of the mosquito. There is also a good amount of information to go along with the text. It is definitely not overwhelming to the reader. Part of the text is also in more of a narrative form so that is a different twist to an information book.
This is a great informational book about mosquitos. It contains a narrative to help keep the reader's attention and to help provide the facts about the mosquito. It also has pictures with captions and diagrams that give extra information. It contains a glossary and index, which is a good tool for the students to use with an informational book. I highly reccomend this book to all readers.
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What an informative way of telling the life cycle of a mosquito. I was surprised at how the mosquito develops and that their life cycle is so short.

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Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
595.77Natural sciences & mathematicsAnimalsArthropoda; Crabs, Spiders, Insects, ButterfliesInsects: Insecta, HexapodaDiptera: flies, etc.
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QL536 .S54ScienceZoologyZoologyInvertebratesInsects
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Languages
English
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
8
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2