Dot & Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery

Ellen Stoll Walsh. Harcourt Children's Books, $15 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-15-216518-5

Dot & Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh is the third in a series about the two mouse detectives. This time their scientific mystery involves the insects they've been watching, which seem to disappear. As the two search for bugs, grasshoppers and butterflies, they learn about how insects use camouflage to survive.

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