Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of dragonflies.

In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect's life cycle in unprecedented close-up photographs. He documents scenes of dragonfly activity seldom witnessed and rarely photographed.

Introduces dragonflies, describing their physical characteristics, life cycle, feeding habits, and predators.

A wise dragonfly helps a despondent cricket realize that he is special in his own way.

Dragonfly Kites refers to "kites" made by tying a string around the middles of dragonflies. Two Cree brothers in northern Manitoba fly these kites during the day, but at night fly themselves in their dreams. This is the second book in the Magical Songs of the North Wind trilogy.