Anna Botsford Comstock both wrote and illustrated several books, including "Ways of the Six-Footed" (1903), "How to Keep Bees" (1905), "The Handbook of Nature Study" (1911), "The Pet Book" (1914), and "Trees at Leisure" (1916). She also wrote the novel "Confessions to a Heathen Idol" (1906). The horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey and her husband both told her they expected "The Handbook of Nature Study" to lose money, but it became a standard textbook for teachers and was later translated into eight languages, with over twenty printings. It is still in print.