LADYBUG, LADYBUG

by Ruth Brown ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1988

Expanding the familiar ""Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home"" by another 14 couplets, Brown takes an odyssey past field and brook and through a wood, where the golden, late-afternoon light slants through the trees, to the ladybug's home in a cottage garden. The added verse scans well, although it sometimes lacks logic (the crow must be as dangerous to the ladybug as the cat's claws). But the double-spread illustrations of a ladybug's- or child's-eye view of the English countryside are carefully observed in every detail and beguilingly lovely--a mouse peering from its nest, a sleek cat with every hair alive and tactile, a joyously complacent, dirty-faced pig, the evening sky. And small children will enjoy exploring the details and finding the diminutive heroine in each picture.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1988

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 32

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1988

Categories: CHILDREN'S