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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "Some bugs sting. / Some bugs bite. / Some bugs stink. / And some bugs fight!" And so begins the sing-song narrative of Some Bugs, a lovely picture-book exploration of the insect life to be found in a child's backyard. A brief text - no more than a sentence per page - is paired here with vividly colorful illustrations depicting various bugs. The book concludes with a girl and her cat, who have been the ones examining all the insects under discussion, and a final page in which each one is identified. Recommended by no less a picture-book luminary than Eric Carle, whose words of praise - "a delightful combination of pictures and words that will captivate readers" - dovetails with my own view on the matter, Some Bugs is the kind of natural history for younger children that I like to see. Beautiful illustrations paired with an engaging but simple text, with more information (in the form of the page identifying the various insects) at the rear. I was reminded of Diana Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long's series of natural history picture-books, from An Egg Is Quiet to A Butterfly Is Patient, and that is high praise indeed! Recommended to anyone looking for picture-books celebrating nature, and all the little creatures to be found therein! no reviews | add a review
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From butterflies and moths to crickets and cicadas, a rhyming exploration of backyard-bug behavior. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)595.7Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Arthropoda Insects: Insecta, HexapodaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Upbeat
Subject
Animals
Backyard animals
Butterflies
Insects
Moths