Small, Shiny Dung Beetle

Follow a female dung beetle meeting her mate on a fresh pile of elephant poo, a common dating site for a dung beetle, and learn about its life cycle and the super-strength it takes to keep the planet tidy.

This book will feed the curiosity of the youngest of readers who are:
• keen to know how the world works
• fascinated by nature
• enjoy learning new information

The story is carefully written for children learning to read, with additional factual captions for more advanced readers.

And here’s the WOW-factor – a large fold-out map of Africa at the end, with diagrams and a fun I-Spy game to take children back into the book to find and identify animals in the pictures.

AGES: 4 to 8

AUTHOR:
Mary Auld is an award-winning writer of children's information books, most notably How To Build an Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mary Auld is a pen name for Rachel Cooke, former Editorial Director at Hachette and an honorary fellow of the English Association in recognition of her work in children's non-fiction.

SELLING POINTS:
• Clear narrative text about the life cycle of a dung beetle
• Covers primary science topics including life cycles, parts of an insect, grassland food webs, metamorphosis, predation and other life processes, the role decomposers and recyclers play in a healthy ecosystem
• Two levels of text - one for emerging readers and additional facts for confident readers
• Includes a giant fold-out map of Africa and I-Spy game
• Textured die-cut cover

ISBN: 9781916780149
Author: AULD, MARY
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/02/2026
RRP: $27.99
Pages: 28
Dimension: 230mm X 230mm
Imprint: Mama Makes Books