Beetles, Lightly Toasted
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his know-it-all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them on unaware friends and family.Tags
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A fifth grade boy named Andy Moller has been preparing to enter the annual essay contest offered every year to the fifth grade class only with a prize of $50 and a picture and article about the winner in the town paper. Andy is disappointed when the topic of the essay is announced...conservation. How he goes about deciding to conserve food is hilarious and charming!
I am not a bug fan myself, but this book would be very interesting for young boys. It is hard for an author to find content that is appealing to boys this age, but Phyllis Reynolds Naylor manages to do so very well!
I would have the students research online and in the library which bugs would be edible and safe for humans to eat. Maybe as a class we could come up with some show more interesting ways to cook the bugs! I would also have the students write about conservation and try to create a unique way of conserving something. This could be a good extension to do with a science lesson about conservation or planet Earth. show less
I am not a bug fan myself, but this book would be very interesting for young boys. It is hard for an author to find content that is appealing to boys this age, but Phyllis Reynolds Naylor manages to do so very well!
I would have the students research online and in the library which bugs would be edible and safe for humans to eat. Maybe as a class we could come up with some show more interesting ways to cook the bugs! I would also have the students write about conservation and try to create a unique way of conserving something. This could be a good extension to do with a science lesson about conservation or planet Earth. show less
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana on January 4, 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from American University in 1963. Her first children's book, The Galloping Goat and Other Stories, was published in 1965. She has written more than 135 children and young adult books including Witch's Sister, The Witch Returns, The Bodies in show more the Bessledorf Hotel, A String of Chances, The Keeper, Walker's Crossing, Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry, Please Do Feed the Bears, and The Agony of Alice, which was the first book in the Alice series. She has received several awards including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Night Cry and the Newberry Award for Shiloh. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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