This is a collection of forty-seven richly illustrated hilarious, furry, peppery and playful poems about bugs - about unfortunate worms, whimsical flies, beetles and snails, frogs, spiders and centipedes and all sorts of other lovable creatures. The poems tell of their more or less ordinary and unusual stories and misadventures in a world that is almost like our own, only a little smaller and slightly more hidden, so that it is often not even visible to the human eye. They tell of troubles that threaten the insects, harm them, spoil their mood, just like in the human world. The characters are personalised, so we can recognise ourselves in them as children and adults, and the poems convey multifaceted messages in symbolic language in a playful, sometimes even stinging way. The poetry in the book brings unencumbered freshness and fun for different generations, and its liveliness calls out to be picked up again and again.