The Best Ant Books for Kids

A shoe hangs overhead while one ant argues that being tiny is not a good enough reason to be flattened.

Two ants stay behind in a sugar bowl and discover that a kitchen is a very dangerous place at their scale.

One picnic ant becomes ten spectacular species, one enormous family, and a title that is plainly no longer accurate.

One hundred hungry ants keep arranging themselves into faster rows while the unattended picnic grows colder.

Grasshopper makes music through the warm months while a colony gathers food—and winter tests what each contribution is worth.

Bright photographs introduce the workers, soldiers, queens, jobs, diets, and adaptations inside an ant colony.

A girl once rescues ants from sugar water; years later, their trail leads her fleeing family toward the boat.

An entire ant reference shelf in thirty-two pages: bodies, life cycles, colonies, farming, war, predators, and prehistory.

Keesha needs one pet ant on film; Ms. Frizzle responds by shrinking the class into the entire colony.

A plain dirt mound opens into miles of tunnels, hundreds of rooms, specialized jobs, and one working city.

The only talking leafcutter ant in a silent colony leaves her fungus garden to find someone who might answer back.

Nora understands the ants in her observation notebook considerably better than the humans in her fourth-grade class.

A box of dead mail-order ants sends two children to the kitchen floor, where a homemade colony begins to repair more than the summer.