Editorial Review

Students develop a comfort zone based on what is familiar to them, and that includes foods they have eaten. Foods outside their comfort zone are “gross” or “yucky!” Reading Bug-a-licious can help students realize that not everyone is raised with the same culinary preferences or dislikes. Close-up, juicy photos show leaf-bug pizza, swollen honey ants, fried giant water bugs, wasp-laden crackers, grasshopper tacos, and other tasty insect foods eaten around the world. Students may be repelled, but as the book concludes, "…the world is a big place. One eater’s ‘yuck!’ is another eater’s ‘yum!’ "