Small, Shiny Dung Beetle

Follow a female dung beetle meeting her mate on a fresh pile of elephant poo, a common dating site for a dung beetle, and learn about its life cycle and the super-strength it takes to keep the planet tidy.This book will feed the curiosity of the youngest of readers who are:• keen to know how the world works• fascinated by nature• enjoy learning new informationThe story is carefully written for children learning to read, with additional factual captions for more advanced readers.And here’s the WOW-factor – a large fold-out map of Africa at the end, with diagrams and a fun I-Spy game to take children back into the book to find and identify animals in the pictures.AGES: 4 to 8AUTHOR:Mary Auld is an award-winning writer of children's information books, most notably How To Build an Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mary Auld is a pen name for Rachel Cooke, former Editorial Director at Hachette and an honorary fellow of the English Association in recognition of her work in children's non-fiction.SELLING POINTS:• Clear narrative text about the life cycle of a dung beetle• Covers primary science topics including life cycles, parts of an insect, grassland food webs, metamorphosis, predation and other life processes, the role decomposers and recyclers play in a healthy ecosystem• Two levels of text - one for emerging readers and additional facts for confident readers• Includes a giant fold-out map of Africa and I-Spy game• Textured die-cut cover ISBN: 9781916780149Author: AULD, MARYFormat: HardcoverPublication date: 01/02/2026RRP: $27.99Pages: 28Dimension: 230mm X 230mmImprint: Mama Makes Books