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Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Nina Marie Andersen (ill.)
Beetles, bugs and butterflies

Discover the world of insects! In this book, you will find stories about insects in many different countries: underwater in lakes and streams, in forests, in your garden and in your house.
Find out how flies are able to walk upside down on your bedroom ceiling, why mosquito bites itch and which insect was the very first animal in space. You will also find stories about the strangest creepy-crawlies in the world.
A small wasp that turns ladybirds into zombies. The larva that kills other insects by farting on them. Beetles that can blink and beetles that have poison cannons in their rear ends. Insects and creepy-crawlies are cool, gross and sometimes bothersome, but most of all they’re super useful to us humans – and we wouldn’t last long without them.

This book was written by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson with illustrations by Nina Marie Andersen. Anne is an insectologist and loves telling people all about exciting creepy-crawlies. She is also the author of EXTRAORDINARY INSECTS for adults, which has been nominated for the Brage Prize, translated into over twenty languages and become an international bestseller.

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Nina Marie Andersen (ill.)

Photo: Celina Øier

Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She has a Doctorate degree in conservation biology, lectures on nature management and forest biodiversity, has been appointed Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences at SLU in Sweden and received the Award for Excellence in Communication of Science from The Research Council of Norway. Her debut book Terra Insecta, was nominated for the Brage Prize, it was on the Sunday Times bestseller list and selected as one of the ten most important books about science by The Smithsonian in the US. Tapestries of Life, was nominated for the Critics' Prize and Forest was nominated for the Brage Prize and the Booksellers' Prize.Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

Nina Marie Andersen (b. 1988), is an artist and illustrator. She earned a bachelor's degree in aesthetic subjects at USN, the University of South-Eastern Norway, and debuted as a book illustrator in 2019.

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Volante, Sweden

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Terra Insecta (2018)

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Edited March 23, 2026 by Stilton Literary Agency