Bug Bear

by Patricia Hegarty, Carmen Saldaña (Illustrator)

Bear settles down next to a tree for a nap. Just as he's falling asleep, a small bug lands on his nose and decides to make himself comfortable. "You're so soft and squishy," the bug tells Bear. "And you DO have a lot of that warm fur to spare." Bear tries swatting at the bug, stomping around, and jumping up and down, but the bug just won't leave him alone! Then Owl offers to help. Could the clever bird have the perfect solution?

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Storytime, Childrens, Friendship, Humor

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember and is now Editorial Director at Caterpillar Books and Little Tiger Kids. As an author, the range of subjects has been wide-ranging—pirates, princesses, trees, and bees have all become firm favorites.

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un osezno está haciendo la siesta, cuando una inesperada mosca se le acerca; queriendo hacerlo servir como lecho.
Simpático y vistoso cuento infantil, con narración de ' rodolins'. Aunque simple, posee frescura y encanto.

[KC · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, so story but great illustrations.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looove the illustrations. And the rhymes are good. Story is alright, ends a little abruptly.

[Книжни Криле · Rating 5 out of 5]

През последните няколко години картинните книги набраха значителна популярност у нас. За щастие на всички, които имат отговорното щастие да се грижат за деца, разнообразието от страхотни съвременни приказки се увеличи както с творбите на световни автори и илюстратори, ката и с достойни попълнения от родни таланти. С удоволствие следим все по-богатите каталози на младите детски издателства. А сега към мармотите и рибките, към дакелчетата и таралежите, гордо се присединява и едно лисиче! Приветстваме с добре дошли на сцената новото издателство „Лисиче” и дебютната му книга „Буболече Мече”. Изключително симпатична и весела история, „Буболече Мече” е написана от Патриша Хагарти, нарисувана от Кармен Салданя и прекрасно преведена в рими от Десислава Алексиева. Прочетете ревюто на "Книжни Криле": https://knijnikrile.wordpress.com/202...

[Marissa Elera · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this. Though the story is stilted at the conclusion, the illustrations make up for it.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought it was cute but there needed to be a little more

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute, but lacked substance

[Inge Janse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wat een geinig boek vol kleine, subtiele ontdekkingen van dieren in de marges, een zwaar geïrriteerde (maar ongetwijfeld niet écht slechte of boze) beer, een immer volhoudende en enthousiaste kever, en een luiaard to the rescue. Prima kerstgedachteboek ook. Alle Tiere werden Brüder, zeg maar, en in de dieren een welbehagen.

[Rory Jakob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute rhymes. Pretty short. Nice pictures. Environmentally inaccurate. Those animals wouldn't all be together at the same time in the same place.

[Arielle Conrad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute

[Laura Daboo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A charming book that children will find hysterical. The beautiful illustrations in this book depict the story with warmth and humour. Along with the wonderful humour, told in fun, childish rhyming language, this story also carries some important messages and discussion points about personal space and respect and can be a useful, gentle way of approaching this topic with younger children. Bug is not trying to irritate Bear, he just wants to be his friend and live in his snuggly warm fur. However, Bear is not happy with this and the book deals beautifully with setting boundaries and finds an alternative solution for the Bug which leads to all of the characters being happy. The text in the book is written in a fun, childish font which depicts the characters. It is however, written with a random mixture of upper case and lower case letters which could be confusing for young children so this may be an area to apply some consideration to before using the book. This book is suitable for EYFS and KS1.

[Cerys Hopkin]

Bug Bear is a book which is strongly aimed at younger children (Reception or Year 1 ages). This fun loving book has a creative take on introducing early teaching of personal, social and emotional learning (PSE), where the bug in the story is looking for a new home; he seeks the sink/fur of the bear. However, the bear does not like this and in turn gets very annoyed and upset about it, until a wise owl comes to help. The book uses fun, loving and childish rhyming language to tell its story alongside its bright, colourful and very exciting illustrations.

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for bug storytime. Might be too wordy for toddlers. There's a bug, a bear, an owl, and a sloth. The bug is "bugging" the bear and the wise old owl comes up with a solution. The bug can "bug" the sloth. He doesn't mind at all. If I'm not able to read the book it would still work great as part of my bug book display.

[Emily Garrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun writing and illustrations in this book but I don't like the resolution. I feel that it doesn't portray a great moral. It teaches that if we just go to someone and complain our problems will just go away.
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[Mely · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute little rhyming story. I enjoyed doing the voices of all the characters while doing a read-aloud. the illustrations are simple and appealing to tots. I didn't care too much for the ending though... feels like they took advantage of the sloth.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice rhyme. Bug wants to live in bear's fur. Bear is being bothered by bug. Cute story about being friends and asking permission.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bug wants to take up residence on a bear but he bear is having none of it. So cute and funny and the pictures are simple and clear. loved the other animals too. toddler and up.

[Kirsten Vega · Rating 2 out of 5]

Beautiful illustrations meet tired story development.

[The Library Lady · Rating 2 out of 5]

MY Bugbear is verse that limps along, and this is that kind of verse. Conclusion is flat.
The artwork is cute.

[Bethany · Rating 3 out of 5]

'nother nephew Christmas pressie

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only an eh story, but cute illustrations and rhyming make it a good story time pick.

[Gwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I guess it was the point but Bug really bugged me. Just leave Bear alone. I hate when I ask someone to leave me alone and they just won't.

[Michelle Gray · Rating 2 out of 5]

A little on the sing songy side.

[Capnniknak · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun one that can be sung out loud to kids

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

It ends too abruptly. Here is a home for you with this random sloth...THE END. This book was sweet nonetheless.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read with a catchy rhyming scheme.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Totally cute, but I found that I stumbled on the rhythm of this rhyming book a LOT. That was frustrating. A few more editorial passes and this would have been a great book. The art is adorable.

[Cahyo Prayitno · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gambar dan ceritanya lucu. Apalagi disertai audio book yang keren. Anak-anak pasti suka!

[Jeanine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr Suess style rhyming was excellent. As long as you aren't talking about ecosystems and are just looking for a fun book, then this is great.

[Annette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny and cute.