The title of this book, There Are No Ants in This Book, sets the reader up to wonder when the author will talk about the reason for that title, or if ants will somehow appear without the author seemingly intending for them to do so. The main character in the book seems adamant when starting her picnic that she doesn't want to see an ant and that she believes the promise of the title, that there are no ants in the book. As the story progresses the ants secretly surprise the reader by hiding in the corners of the pictures and under things, etc. The girl is unaware until her picnic is underway but then she finds out that ants aren't bad as the ants tell her interesting things about themselves. In the end, the girl even helps the ants, and you will have to read the story to find out how that is true. This book is one of those books that will make you curious and also make you laugh, a mixture of learning and fun!

There Are No Ants in This Book is a fun book for kids to enjoy learning about different ants and counting them. The colorful illustrations and counting keep the audience interest as readers meet more ants who keep the ecosystem balanced. I would use this book for a story time read aloud and recommend it to anyone reading to curious preschoolers.

My 6 year old daughter and 2 year old son enjoyed this book. My daughter said she liked that it had lots of different ants and she enjoyed learning about them. She would recommend it to other kids she says.

Thank you to netgalley for an advanced copy of this book for my honest review.

In this fun, summery meta-style digitally-illustrated picture book, when a girl heads out to have a solo picnic, she discovers the perfect ant-free book with the perfect ant-free space for one. After setting up, though, she soon discovers there ARE in fact a variety of ants in this book, as one by one they introduce themselves. Coming to grips with this fact, the girl at first panics, but soon decides she's happy to enjoy the ants' company, even helping to save them from a dreaded foe. Simple back matter offers a bit more information about each ant.

Cute story and illustrations. Teaches in a friendly way about several different kinds of ants. At the end of the book is a glossary and summary of the ants introduced in this book with additional facts. I love nature stories and hope to read more by this author. This is my honest review of this ARC.

Describes several different ants' eating habits, living conditions, means of defense, and physical characteristics . Illustrations of each ant better enhance the information given. Informative. However, there was some reason to suspect a hidden agenda as the main girl character had a rainbow colored bracelet throughout the entire book.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to review this book.

This is the cutest book! You learn all about different kinds of ants! The illustrations are wonderful as well!!!! This would be a great classroom read a loud!

I really enjoyed this story, and wasn't expecting it to be as educational as it was. My 4 year old enjoyed it as much as I did. I really liked that it shows that you can change your opinion about something once you learn more about it, a very important lesson.

This book was so fun! Entertaining with some facts about ants. We enjoyed talking about ants and it inspired us to research ants more.

Colorful pictures and clearly expresses to children what is happening. We will most definitely be adding this to our shelves!

I got a digital ARC through Netgalley. A fun book I can use in my STEM story time. I will be adding this book to my library's collection when it comes out.

Such a cute story! Read this with our littles and they loved the illustrations. We really enjoyed this book and our little have asked for us to read it again since we received it🥰we will definitely be purchasing a copy of this. We highly recommend this book.