BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS

Poetry Starring Creepy Crawlies: Bugs in Picture Books (page 3)

CHILDREN'S

Released: April 1, 2001

ODDHOPPER OPERA: A BUG’S GARDEN OF VERSES

by Kurt Cyrus, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus

"Two-legged fans of Douglas Florian's Insectlopedia (1998) and J. Patrick Lewis's The Little Buggers (1998) will scurry after this verbal and visual tour-de-force. (Poetry. 7-10)"

Cyrus (The Mousery, 2000, etc.) promises bugs and verses, and delivers plenty of both in this ground-level view of a vegetable garden's teeming residents. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: March 1, 1998

INSECTLOPEDIA

by Douglas Florian, illustrated by Douglas Florian

"The watercolor illustrations, abstract and stylized, achieve a comic effect by incorporating collage elements reminiscent of an entomolgist's field notes. (Picture book. 5-10)"

The creator of In the Swim (1997) joins Paul Fleischman (in Joyful Noise, 1987) in poetically praising insects. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Nov. 1, 1992

FLIT, FLUTTER, FLY!: POEMS ABOUT BUGS AND OTHER CRAWLY CREATURES

by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Peter Palagonia

"Useful. (Poetry/Picture book. 4-8)"

From Karla Kuskin's ``Bugs'' to Margaret Wise Brown's, here are 20 ``Poems About Bugs and Other Crawly Creatures,'' many of them already familiar. Read full book review >