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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
March, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-4754-4$15.99
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Illustrated by
Bob Staake.
"Bugs are awesome, / oddly mild, / feared and weird, / destructive, wild, / otherworldly, / pesky, chilling, / undercover, / fun and thrilling." They're also the impetus for Stein and Staake's imagination to run wild, depicting, with an accompanying frenzied rhyme, all kinds of surreal bugs from the scary to the squishy. Breaking the pace is a quiet double-page spread showcasing fireflies, but a detour into the land of worms is distracting.