Title: Some Bugs
Author: Angela DiTerrlizzi
Illustrator: Brendan Wenzel
Publisher & Year of Publication: Beach Lane, 2014
Genre: Informational
Recommended Audience: Ages 4-8
Summary: The book features a variety of insects and depicts their habitat, and how they compare to other insects. Each page includes a short line about the selected insect. It is a quick read, and most suited for primary students.
Evaluation/Reflection: The book is very unique. Its rhythmic verses get stuck in your head, and the collage portraits leave you sitting staring at the pictures.
Memorable Literary Moment: This book is wrote as a rhyming poem, and full of creative action verbs.
Illustrations: Mixed media collage pictures are featured on double-page illustrations; very creative!
Review: Visually detailed, this solid offering offers brief descriptions of a variety of bugs. Mixed-media illustrations emphasize textures and patterns as the insects creep, inch, and flutter along each page. Various perspectives place the bugs as the dominant focus on the scene as they invade each spread. The crisp, rhyming text perfectly suits this fast-paced read-aloud. "Some bugs STING./Some bugs BITE./Some bugs STINK./And some bugs FIGHT!" The simple sentences emphasize the action and appearance of these creepy crawlies. Bold capitalized words highlight each specific sound and action. The bugs are viewed in a variety of outdoor settings, against a backdrop of striking leaves, thick branches, and on top of bubbling water. A dramatic final spread encourages young naturalists to explore the great outdoors. "So kneel/down close,/LOOK/very hard,/and find/SOME BUGS/in your backyard!" Colorful endpapers provide labeled drawings of dozens of bugs. DiTerlizzi demonstrates that it is a bug's world after all, and what a beautiful world indeed. – School Library Journal
Promotion Idea: This book would serve well when students are learning about the insects. The librarian or teacher could read this book as a supplement to classroom instruction.
Acquisition: Public library, or available on Amazon for $11.97 (hardcover).
Author: Angela DiTerrlizzi
Illustrator: Brendan Wenzel
Publisher & Year of Publication: Beach Lane, 2014
Genre: Informational
Recommended Audience: Ages 4-8
Summary: The book features a variety of insects and depicts their habitat, and how they compare to other insects. Each page includes a short line about the selected insect. It is a quick read, and most suited for primary students.
Evaluation/Reflection: The book is very unique. Its rhythmic verses get stuck in your head, and the collage portraits leave you sitting staring at the pictures.
Memorable Literary Moment: This book is wrote as a rhyming poem, and full of creative action verbs.
Illustrations: Mixed media collage pictures are featured on double-page illustrations; very creative!
Review: Visually detailed, this solid offering offers brief descriptions of a variety of bugs. Mixed-media illustrations emphasize textures and patterns as the insects creep, inch, and flutter along each page. Various perspectives place the bugs as the dominant focus on the scene as they invade each spread. The crisp, rhyming text perfectly suits this fast-paced read-aloud. "Some bugs STING./Some bugs BITE./Some bugs STINK./And some bugs FIGHT!" The simple sentences emphasize the action and appearance of these creepy crawlies. Bold capitalized words highlight each specific sound and action. The bugs are viewed in a variety of outdoor settings, against a backdrop of striking leaves, thick branches, and on top of bubbling water. A dramatic final spread encourages young naturalists to explore the great outdoors. "So kneel/down close,/LOOK/very hard,/and find/SOME BUGS/in your backyard!" Colorful endpapers provide labeled drawings of dozens of bugs. DiTerlizzi demonstrates that it is a bug's world after all, and what a beautiful world indeed. – School Library Journal
Promotion Idea: This book would serve well when students are learning about the insects. The librarian or teacher could read this book as a supplement to classroom instruction.
Acquisition: Public library, or available on Amazon for $11.97 (hardcover).