Bugged:
How Insects Changed History
Illustrated by Robert Leighton
There are about ten quintillion insects in the world-and some of them have affected human history in tremendous ways. For as long as humans have been on earth, we’ve co-existed with insects . . . for better or for worse. Once you begin to look at world history through fly-specked glasses, you begin to see the mark of these minute life forms at every turn. Beneficial bugs have built empires. Bad bugs have toppled them. Bugged is not your everyday history book. This combination of world history, social history, natural science, epidemiology, public health, conservation, and microbiology is told with fun and informative graphics and in an irreverent voice, making this one fun-to-read book.
Age Range: 8 – 14
Grade Level: 3–8
Softcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2014)
ISBN: 978-0802734228
Praise
A Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Awards Honor Book
A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year
“The breadth of information Albee covers speaks to the way that tugging on a tiny thread of history can yield a vast, multifaceted narrative.”
–Publishers Weekly
“A lively combination of photographs, illustrations and cartoons accompany this delightfully revolting history, which Albee and Leighton recount with plenty of zingers and an infestation of puns.”
—The New York Times Book Review
