Fun rhymes introduce kids to insects including butterflies, cicadas, and beetles. This book will delight and inspire the youngest insect enthusiasts who will bug their adults to read it over and over and over again.', No matter what the weather outside is actually like, your family can celebrate the arrival of spring with Some Bugs by Angela DiTerlizzi. Some Bugs by Angela DiTerlizzi ( Say What? ) lives up to that challenge, celebrating some of the world's most successful living creatures in rhythmic and upbeat text that bursts off the page, accompanied by Brendan Wenzel's exuberant illustrations. A great picture book for young readers combines familiarity with something new.

Whether this bug flutters or that bug crawls, this book about bugs shines.', * 'Picture book excellence, especially with a familiar topic, is no small feat. While the bugs are not identified on the pages where they roam, the end spread provides a colorful visual glossary. His bugs are colorful and playful, vibrant and comical, and always in motion, yet they retain their essential 'bugness.' A young entomologist would have no trouble recognizing these insects in the wild. DiTerlizzi's text gives the book its delightful read-aloud rhythm Wenzel's illustrations give the book another level of kinetic energy.

So vivid are Wenzel's compositions that readers will feel transported to a summer day, when the air is musical and life is literally buzzing.', 'With minimal rhyming text, DiTerlizzi introduces very young readers to an array of insects. Even the most squeamish or squash-happy reader will find these critters easy to love. * ' marvelous encyclopedic look at backyard entomology.

Some bugs by angela diterlizzi