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David, Lawrence

Beetle Boy: Inspired by Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

32 pp. | Doubleday | February, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32549-5 $$15.95
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Delphine Durand. Second-grader Gregory Sampson awakens one morning to find he has become a beetle, and no one but his best friend notices the transformation. Much more chipper and mild than Kafka's Metamorphosis, the story and its offbeat stylized illustrations offer an amusing, if rather pat, look at what it might be like to be a bug for a day.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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