The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Nasty Bugs

32 pp. | Dial | March, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8037-3716-7 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Will Terry. Children's poets such as Alice Schertle, J. Patrick Lewis, and Douglas Florian write about the yuckiest of insects, including lice, ticks, bedbugs, stink bugs, and, of course, the venerable cockroach. The poets use a variety of styles while maintaining a consistently humorous tone. If the words don't get your skin crawling, the vividly colored illustrations will. Three pages of facts are appended.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2012