Mini-Monsters in Your Backyard Format: Paperback

Beware: Miniature monsters are hiding in your backyard!

Sure, they may look like ordinary bugs―but these insects have inspired many of your favorite movie monsters, like vampires, mummies, and zombies. Open this book (if you dare) to discover blood sucking assassins, voodoo tricksters, body snatchers, kung fu killers―and even a bug that drinks with its own butt! These true and twisted tales of common insects put the creepy back in creepy-crawlies.

Ian McGee completed a Masters of Entomology before being lured from academia to the world of wildlife filmmaking. Over the next 30 years, he won many awards for his work producing and writing hundreds of natural history documentary series including an Emmy Award and a nomination for an Emmy in Graphic Design. Ian has been Head of Production for the children's television network ZooMoo seen in more than 40 countries around the world. He has written and produced almost 4000 shows. He lives in New Zealand.