Are You an Ant? (Backyard Books)

My four year old was having nightmares and fears about giant ants, and I thought we might be able to make ants less scary with a little more knowledge. I thought the lovely illustrations and informative, yet story-like text that encourages the reader/listener to imagine being the ant in this book might help. Sure enough, it's become a bedtime favorite, and the giant ant nightmares are gone. I had a brief flash of anxiety that giant bird nightmares might emerge, but fortunately my kiddo thinks the image of a bird trying to do anting with a person is funny rather than scary.

I liked that this story is educational as well as entertaining. I read it to my 6 and 8 year old and they had questions for me after which is how I know they were listening and engaged. Art work is great too!

Was having a camp with my 3.5 and 4.5 great nephews. Part of it was learning about insects.The book was pretty informative, good for their age and they seemed to like them. They picked it to be read more than once the week I was there.

We have ordered the majority of the Backyard books for our daughter who loves science. Good explanation, fair illustrations. Has been great for preschooler, early elementary age child regarding understanding material and encouraging interest in science. Our favorites are "Are you a Ladybug" and "Are you a Butterfly" but all books have been informative and fun to read! We have even learned quite a bit as parents and one of us actually has a science background.

Fun to read to a group because the pictures are large and clear, and the text grabs kids attention making them imagine themselves as ants.

Just great! Sent this and other items to homeschooled grandkids for unit about ants. Well received!

This book was great for helping my toddler get over her fear of ants. She was terrified and we read this often so she understood they're not scary. I'm so happy I bought this for her. It made spring and summer so much less stressful!

This book is age appropriate. The kids loved it, specially the gross parts. As a teacher, I thought it was well written. It came super fast.