The Insect Folk

Dragon-flies, katydids, the funny back-swimmers and little Mrs. Shore Bug — Morley walks children through the insect world by asking them to go and LOOK: “books will help you, but you must watch, too.”

Our Pretty Dragon Flies

3 pages in this part of The Insect Folk.

Our Pretty Dragon Flies

Come to a pond I know of.

Our Pretty Dragon Flies: Look

Look and see if it has a head, a thorax, and an abdomen.

Our Pretty Dragon Flies: Mollie

Mollie thinks it is an upside-down, inside-out sort of a creature anyway.

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