Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg birdwatching guide GAVIN BROAD is the Principal

GAVIN BROAD is the Principal Curator of Insects at the Natural History Museum

he seeks the help of a wise old click beetle

I still read it every couple of years

Each bird has it's own page with facts about it and a very detailed illustration of what it looks like

our narrator initiates the building of a monarch way station

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg birdwatching guide GAVIN BROAD is the PrincipalAccustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. The three time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture