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. From the author and illustrator team behind kid-favorite Poop Happened! A History of the World from the Bottom Up, 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.

 

This book was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Grand Canyon Reader Award. It was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Alabama Camellia Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 168 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA .

ROBERT LEIGHTON is the illustrator of Poop Happened! A History of the World from the Bottom Up and What's Going on Down There? , as well as a puzzle-writer and New Yorker cartoonist. He lives in New York City. Sarah Albee writes children's books for many age groups and under a number of pseudonyms. She has had three of her books appear on the New York Times Bestseller list. This is her first title for A & C Black.