Back when we had one child, we were out one Saturday morning doing some garage sale-ing. We came across a big bin of kids books. I have come across bins like this before but usually pass them up because they have nothing but pulp (e.g. Barbie books and the latest Disney cartoon adapted for a children's book). This bin was different. This appeared to be a bin of books that belonged to a former elementary school teacher. All of the books in the bin were labeled with black permanent marker: "P. Smith." And almost every book in the bin looked like it belonged in an elementary school classroom. This was such a fantastic find, and has been the basis for our book collection ever since.
Armies of Ants has the P. Smith label on it. This is not a story book, but rather an informational book, and the girls were into it. The book has seven short chapters, and when the six-year-old handed it to me to read, I told her we were not going to read the whole thing (and in my mind I thought, "because it looks really long and boring). Despite my initial resistance, I read the whole thing. It was extremely interesting, and the girls asked questions the whole time. I don't know if this book is going to be a regular read, but it was a lot of fun to read it through. I feel like we all know a lot more about ants because of it.
Format: paper
Read/don't read: read
You can find this book at Amazon.com here: Armies of Ants
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