The Beetle Book - Steve Jenkins

What a lovely book! The illustrations are bright and fun, perfect for a book like this. They're actually made of pieces of coloured paper torn and cut to shape, and indeed, they're incredibly intricate and delicate!
I purposely didn't go for a massive, encyclopedia-like book on beetles as that would just be too tedious to read for the time being. Books like these are perfect for beginners, children, or generally people who just love beautiful pictures. As well as being colourful and pleasing to the eye, it is also contains many interesting facts and tidbits of information.
I learned many new things, such as what beetles live in Europe and England, that some beetles are cannibals (the female firefly can lure a male firefly to her by pretending to be a different species of firefly, and then eat him!), and that some beetles live in bodies of water.

Here are a couple of pages that I particularly liked: