Bug in a Rug: Reading Fun for Just-beginners

by Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson, Alan Tiegreen (Illustrator)

Includes simple stories and poems, labeled pictures, and rebuses to help young children discover the pleasure of reading

Genres: Childrens

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Reviews

[Tym · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for new readers being much more interactive than most children’s books with varying challenges and games.

[Brandy Burbach · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for beginners who are trying to link pictures with what the actual word is. From poems to learning the alphabet the book has many versions of ways to learn. I would recommend this to mothers prepping their young kids to go to school. they are able to work with the child by reading the words while the kids use the pictures. Rhyming, opposites, pronunciation are all parts of this book plus more!

[Y.Poston]

definitely a teaching tool

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a simple and fun reading primer that has lots of pages of different kinds of reading activities: poems, pictures with labels, stories that build, and stories with rebuses. This is a very good book to read with beginning readers, but recommend that it be taken in small bites. I don't think most young children would enjoy reading this all at one time.

[jenna Hudrlik · Rating 5 out of 5]

caroline and i had fun with this book - differnet reading activities to do together - rhyming, using pictures to help her read the words, rhyming stories, and easy rebuses - she really like it.

[Sara Lemonade · Rating 4 out of 5]

We've been working the simple exercises in this book off and on for the past month. It's fun and super-easy. My dad says too easy, I tell him entertainment is the bottom line, not in so many words.