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Hugg 'n' Bugg: The Comb
The unlikely pairing of Hugg, a messy yeti, and Bugg, a flea that feels the cold, shows the wonder of teamwork in the Himalayas. The hairy snowman keeps the flea warm. The flea keeps his personal, living rug neat and tidy.
A trip down the mountain for food and the discovery of a comb test their friendship. But, a run-in with rude leopards and a threat to their home, help Hugg ‘n Bugg see sense.
A trip down the mountain for food and the discovery of a comb test their friendship. But, a run-in with rude leopards and a threat to their home, help Hugg ‘n Bugg see sense.
36 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2023
About the author
Ian Brown
192 books44 followersA Canadian journalist and author.
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning.
He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.
Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
Brown has also published three books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life. The Boy in the Moon, a book-length version of Brown's series of Globe and Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009.
In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son. The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction.
Brown is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning.
He has also worked as a business writer at Maclean's and the Financial Post, a feature reporter for The Globe and Mail, and a freelance journalist for other magazines including Saturday Night.
Brown is also the editor of What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men a 2006 collection of twenty-nine essays by prominent Canadian writers, including Greg Hollingshead, David MacFarlane, Don Gillmor, Bert Archer, and Brown himself, who asked his contributors to write on subjects that they'd like to discuss with women but had never been able to.
Brown has also published three books, Freewheeling (1989) about the Billes family, owners of Canadian Tire, and Man Overboard. He is an occasional contributor to the American public radio program This American Life. The Boy in the Moon, a book-length version of Brown's series of Globe and Mail features dealing with his son Walker's rare genetic disorder, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome (CFC), was published in the fall of 2009.
In January 2010, Ian Brown won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for his book The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son. The award is Canada's richest non-fiction prize and offers the winner a $40,000 prize. In February, 2010, the book won the Charles Taylor Prize, a $25,000 prize which recognizes excellence in literary non-fiction.
Brown is married to Globe and Mail film critic Johanna Schneller.
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December 28, 2024
This is a great rhyming picture book. Hugg the yeti and Bugg the mountain flea live in harmony together with Bugg helping to look after Hugg’s hair while enjoying the warmth of living among his locks. But when Hugg finds a pink comb in the snow and starts using it, it disrupts Bugg’s home. Combs aren’t good for fleas and while Hugg thinks he’s found a way to look after himself from now on, things don’t work out as planned when he meets the other animals living in the area. This picture book is wider than A4 in size and is filled with thick matt pages of some very fun illustrations and text.
Having enjoyed the first book in the series where we find out how Hugg and Bugg meet, ‘Hugg n’ Bugg: Finding Home’ I was keen to read this next book. Just as with the first there is some brilliant rhyming throughout each page and the story is lots of fun with Hugg and Bugg getting along well despite their vast size difference. I love how this is depicted in some of the images with us first seeing Hugg’s point of view, with Bugg looking tiny, and later Bugg’s point of view with everything looking huge. The story begins with Hugg finding a comb on the floor that he’s initially afraid of, thinking he’s being lured into a trap by humans, but after scaring away a human instead, Hugg decides to start using the comb on himself, which leads to some fancy loking new hair styles and problems for Bugg.
I like what happens in the story as we find out what both Hugg and Bugg encounter when Hugg starts using the comb and is later spotted by the other animals in the area. Although the story does concentrate on the relationship between both Hugg and Bugg it does cover wider issues about their potential loss of their homes and there’s a bit of an interesting moment with an environmental scene too which can be seen in some of the later pages of the story. However the story very much concentrates on these two friends and how their relationship is one that benefits both of them. Of course the story wouldn’t be complete without a good dose of humour too and I love how great and funny some of the moments are especially with the added illustrations.
I really love the pictures in this book and how detailed so many of them are. Each page or double page image has lots of fun details and I love seeing some of the little extras such as what some of the other animals are doing and the lovely detail in both Hugg and Bugg too. The illustrations look like they’ve been painted onto a canvas and I love the colours and the details, I especially love how we get to see the world from both Hugg’s and Bugg’s perspectives, especially with scenes like Bugg washing Hugg and the later mention of him plaiting Hugg’s toe hairs! The way Hugg looks after combing his hair is so funny too and I do think that although there’s a good story and rhyming this book wouldn’t be so fun without the added illustrations.
Overall this is another fun addition to the Hugg and Bugg series and I do hope there will be more in the future. It’s a fun rhyming story with a good dose of humour thrown in and some great illustrations too. A very fun book to read, and although you can read this one as a standalone picture book, it’s even more fun if you read the first book, ‘Hugg’n’ Bugg: Finding Home’ first, to see how these two first met!
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy.
Having enjoyed the first book in the series where we find out how Hugg and Bugg meet, ‘Hugg n’ Bugg: Finding Home’ I was keen to read this next book. Just as with the first there is some brilliant rhyming throughout each page and the story is lots of fun with Hugg and Bugg getting along well despite their vast size difference. I love how this is depicted in some of the images with us first seeing Hugg’s point of view, with Bugg looking tiny, and later Bugg’s point of view with everything looking huge. The story begins with Hugg finding a comb on the floor that he’s initially afraid of, thinking he’s being lured into a trap by humans, but after scaring away a human instead, Hugg decides to start using the comb on himself, which leads to some fancy loking new hair styles and problems for Bugg.
I like what happens in the story as we find out what both Hugg and Bugg encounter when Hugg starts using the comb and is later spotted by the other animals in the area. Although the story does concentrate on the relationship between both Hugg and Bugg it does cover wider issues about their potential loss of their homes and there’s a bit of an interesting moment with an environmental scene too which can be seen in some of the later pages of the story. However the story very much concentrates on these two friends and how their relationship is one that benefits both of them. Of course the story wouldn’t be complete without a good dose of humour too and I love how great and funny some of the moments are especially with the added illustrations.
I really love the pictures in this book and how detailed so many of them are. Each page or double page image has lots of fun details and I love seeing some of the little extras such as what some of the other animals are doing and the lovely detail in both Hugg and Bugg too. The illustrations look like they’ve been painted onto a canvas and I love the colours and the details, I especially love how we get to see the world from both Hugg’s and Bugg’s perspectives, especially with scenes like Bugg washing Hugg and the later mention of him plaiting Hugg’s toe hairs! The way Hugg looks after combing his hair is so funny too and I do think that although there’s a good story and rhyming this book wouldn’t be so fun without the added illustrations.
Overall this is another fun addition to the Hugg and Bugg series and I do hope there will be more in the future. It’s a fun rhyming story with a good dose of humour thrown in and some great illustrations too. A very fun book to read, and although you can read this one as a standalone picture book, it’s even more fun if you read the first book, ‘Hugg’n’ Bugg: Finding Home’ first, to see how these two first met!
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy.
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