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| Are You a Ladybug? (Backyard Books) | 
| Authors: Judy Allen, Tudor Humphries
Publisher: Kingfisher
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 41706
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 31
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 0753456036
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.769
UPC: 046442456036
EAN: 9780753456033
ASIN: 0753456036
Publication Date: May 16, 2003
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 My Daughter Loves It! August 28, 2008
This book was on my daughter's summer reading list for going into 1st grade. We read it as soon as we got it and she loves it. We have read it several times. I would recommend this to all children, especially ones who love ladybugs.
Ladybugs: Yes! November 25, 2007
Are you a ladybug? Well, even if you aren't you will love this book. If you are a young child (3 - 8 years old?) interested in ladybugs this is the book for you. Informative and entertaining, this is a very lovely, well written book, that engages children and adults alike with gentle humor and an engaging style that imparts a good deal of scientific information through words and beautiful, detailed artistic illustrations. It's written in language that is engaging to children, beginning with the question "Are you a ladybug?.... If you are your parents look like this." I especially like the ending which is both charming and multi-culturally illustrated: "However if your parents look a little like this or this or this you are not a ladybug, you are . . . (turn the page) a human child." I read this book to a 4 year old who is very interested in ladybugs and he has asked to have it read to him many times. An addendum gives some additional information about ladybugs. Like other reviewers, I was thrilled to find this book.
Ladybug non-fiction July 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
FINALLY! A book about ladybugs that is factual and well written. Lovely illustrations, also. Great subject matter.
 Good Book for Little Ones May 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this book in my kindergarten classroom, and it really helped them understand how ladybugs grow. The illustrations and text are very simple and easy to follow. The kids enjoyed learning the song "Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away" after hearing parts of it in the story.
Short and Sweet, A Pleasure to Read! January 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a cute, easy to understand and very short guide to information about ladybugs for young children. Each two page spread is wonderfully illustrated (watercolor and pencil, a mellow, natural look) with a few short sentences about the lifecycle of the ladybug from the "mom" laying eggs, through the several metamorphosis that the young larvae go through...acknowledging that young ladybugs look nothing like adults, which is excellent because this entire process can be difficult to explain to young children without them seeing it...and in Are You a Ladybug, it's all drawn out nicely and it's very easy to understand!
Are you a Ladybug presents the physical characteristics and behavior of ladybugs as ell as their diet, habitat and also discusses how animals and birds don't eat them because they taste bad...no reason is given and it's never discussed if they have any natural predators, we were left to find out this information on our own, so that was slightly disappointing.
What's so appealing about Are You a Ladybug is that because of the way it's written, young readers (or listeners, if you use these as read-alouds) are put front and center, they are put in the position of imagining what is going on from hatching and eating their egg, to molting, eating lots and lots of aphids, and then growing their hard shell. This book really engages young minds in a way that is both accurate (scientifically presented) and fun (pretend play/imaginative), with just the right amount of humor to keep it from getting bogged down in facts. I give it four stars, it would have gotten five, but there is no glossary and the author does not define what an aphid is...though this did provide us with an opportunity to go to their picture dictionary and allow them to look it up and discuss it as an additional activity! Great for ages 4-8, with 4-6 probably being the ideal age range, what a fun way to "gear up" for spring, when animals and insects of all kinds will be coming out in force. With this book, we've given our kids a head start on what to look for this spring and they are looking forward to it.
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