Bert the Ugly Bug: Blue/Band 4

by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham, Simona Meisser (Illustrator)

Bert lives deep in the rainforest and is completely awestruck by the beauty of other bright and wonderful creatures. If only he could sparkle like that? Or can he? This wonderful, decodable story is written by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham and fantastically illustrated by Simona Messier. • Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
• Text A story with a familiar setting
• Pages 14–15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the story.
• Curriculum science, geography

16 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Mal Peet grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to southwest England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he had written and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons have appeared in a number of magazines.