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• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: How to Be a Dragonfly follows Chase from pond-dwelling nymph to airborne adult as a grasshopper narrator coaches him through danger, growth, and daring escapes. The comic plot makes each life stage, behavior, and pond adaptation something Chase must use before readers can see what he becomes.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: How to Be a Ladybug gives Dotty the larva a garden full of predators, rival insects, confusing body changes, and wings still to come. Her comic journey lets children discover that a ladybug's early stages look and behave differently from the familiar adult.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Nature Narrative / Field Discovery

Why it works: How to Clean a Hippopotamus presents animal partnerships as close-up, step-by-step encounters, from a mongoose answering a warthog's signal to ravens following wolves. The playful instruction frame makes readers work out what each partner does and what either animal gains.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: How to Swallow a Pig rewrites animal behavior as absurd step-by-step advice for fishing like a whale, building like a beaver, spinning like a spider, or sewing like a tailorbird. The joke works only when the sequence accurately reveals how each animal solves a survival problem.