War of the Worlds insect-style – Entomological children‘s adventure fiction before World War I

Children‘s adventure fiction. It‘s spring outside and since insects are the new big subject at my son‘s Kindergarden, we‘ve recently been reading the abbreviated and revised version of Waldemar Bonsels‘s children‘s classic „Maya the Bee“ („Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer“). Published in 1912, the book reads like a strikingly modern animal novel, which, though …