To defuse a situation between his best friend and a new student, Nolan eats a live stink bug, gaining popularity and a class project idea but, perhaps, losing a friend.

When an old woman gets sick and her garden begins to die, the doodle bugs call on the Leaf Men to make things right again.

In this version of the classic fable, a weary ant is energized by the swinging sounds of a grasshopper and his "buggy" band.

A girl's father digs in the garden, finding and presenting for inspection such wonders as a round gold beetle and a leaf-green mantis.

Miss Spider and her friend Holley go shopping for a car.

Libby Wimbley and her friend Becca search for bugs to finish their nature worksheet for school when they find a dragonfly trapped in an old spider web. Libby carefully untangles the dragonfly and sets it free near a pond where it can make a new home.

Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?