Further Reading
Here are some of our team’s top picks for invertebrate-themed books.
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Non Fiction
The Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman
Silent Earth by Dave Goulson
How to attract Butterflies to your garden by Densey Clyne
A photo guide to common cicadas of the Greater Sydney Region by Dr Nathan Emery
Australia's incredible insects by Jessa Thurman
The wasp and the orchid by Danielle Clode
A guide to land snails of Australia by John Stanisic, Darryl Potter and Lorelle Stanisic
100 Australian butterflies, bees, beetles and bugs by Georgia Angus
A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions by Thom van Dooren
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales
Field Guide - Spiders of Australia by Robert Whyte and Greg Anderson
Field Guide - Butterflies of Australia by Michael F Braby
Field Guide - Dragonflies of Australia by John Hawking and Gunther Theischinger
Field Guide - Stick and Leaf Insects of Australia by Paul D Brock and Jack W Hasenpusch
Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories by Amanda Reid
Australian Echinoderms by Maria Byrne and Timothy D O'Hara
Marine Decapod Crustacea by Gary CB Poore and Shane T Ahyong
Crabs - A Global Natural History by Peter J. F. Davie
Bugs Alive! A Guide to Keeping Australian Invertebrates by Alan Henderson, Deanna Henderson & Jessie Sinclair
Minibeasts – True rulers of our world and the key to our survival by Alan Henderson
Children’s Books
Where are all the Christmas beetles? by Suzanne Houghton
My little world by Julia Cooke and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall
Eyes on flies by Dr Bry the Fly Guy
A beetle is shy by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
First encyclopedia of Australian wildlife by Steve Parrish
The snail and the whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Rachel Carson and her book that the changed the world by Laurie Lawlor, illustrated by Laura Beingessner
Slim and Flash - The garden lizards by Katherine Morris (lots of invertebrates featured and alternative parenting strategies for mums! 😉)
Do not lick this book by Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost (not about invertebrates, but so good!)
Our bugs by Bronwyn Bancroft
Zoom the busy dragonfly by Michelle Coleman and Rohini Chakraborty
Big bug, little bug by Paul Stickland
First field guide to Australian insects and spiders by Steve Parish
Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks
Bijil Ba Wudhi Deberra - Bijil and Moths by Aunty Loraine Padgham
Ingenious Insects by Sarah Allen
Illumibugs by Barbara Taylor and Carnovsky
Game - Bug Bingo by Christine Berrie
Bonkers About Beetles by Owen Davey
The Book of Australian Minibeasts by Charles Hope
Invertebrates have no Backbone by Sarah Ridley
Unseen Worlds by Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt
Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes and Judy Watson
Wonderful Wasps by Katrina Germein
Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect By Rohan Cleave
Incy-Wincy Spider by Igloo Books
There’s a Zoo in my Backyard by Deanna Henderson