Please Don’t Bite Me: Insects that Buzz, Bite and Sting

Nazzy Pakpour, illustrated by Owen Davey

Fascinating facts about insects
Explains importance of bugs in nature
Strong visual appeal

You might not think that a book about the irritating insects that bite us, sting us or suck our blood would be appealing but you’d be wrong. This beautifully designed book looks at the secret lives of some of our most annoying insects: mosquitoes, lice, wasps, cockroaches, fleas and bedbugs.

Please Don’t Bite Me is packed with fascinating facts about these insects: how they bite or sting us, how they survive, how they rear their young and build their homes. Who knew that penguins, otters and pigs all have lice? Why did a cockroach called Nadezhda spend 12 days orbiting the Earth? And how do mosquitoes manage to bite us without being noticed? Questions such as these are answered in a clear, informative text that is highly readable. The author also looks at ways that people tried to get rid of bugs throughout history, from sprinkling bean leaves around the bed to ward off bedbugs, to the Chinese remedy of grinding chrysanthemum flowers into a powder to kill lice.

The design throughout the book is visually appealing and Davey’s brilliant illustrations provide a riot of colour and visual delight. Make sure you run your hands over the tactile embossed front cover!

Insects play a unique and important role in nature and without them, the author claims, our entire ecosystem would collapse. After reading this book you might not feel that these buzzing, biting and stinging insects are so bad after all!

Published by Flying Eye Books, 2023 (62 pages)

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