Bugs

Usborne Beginners

by Emily Bone

Young Beginners extends the reach of the informative Beginners series to younger, inquisitive three-year-olds. Highly illustrated with simple, short text to encourage conversation about subjects chosen to appeal to very young children.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Picture Books, Science

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 19, 2016

About the author

Emily Bone grew up among the rolling hills of Hampshire, writing stories about the ants and birds in her garden. After studying English at Cambridge, she found her dream job at Usborne in 2007. Since then, she's written about many weird and wonderful creatures, along with books on space, fashion and food.

Reviews

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[Christina Lawrence · Rating 5 out of 5]

March is learning about the jungle. This a great introduction to the world of bugs. With colorful illustrations and easy to read text.

[Donna Gallant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Emily Bone's easy reader, Bugs, in the Usborne Young Beginners series, copyright 2016, is filled with lots of great facts and drawings. It is a great nonfiction resource. Young children (3+) and even middle grade students will delight in the beautiful digitally re-touched illustrations and format of brief facts. I would suggest this nonfiction book is a Fountas & Pinnell reading level J-L. The book presents various identifying features and habits of insects, arthropods, arachnids and mollusks.

Characteristic of genre: Although without a glossary or bold headers to make the subtopics more easily referenced, this informational text certainly is attractive to children. Subtopics include, "Some bugs look like other things," with a giant leaf insect, stick insect, orchid mantises, and dead leaf butterfly for examples.

Characteristic of genre: Most ideas are on two-page spreads, as in "A butterfly lays eggs on a plant" with images of the butterfly life cycle. The book contains a 2-page spread of a true-sized atlas moth.

Although the title "Bugs" is misleading because the book does contain other species, the intended audience of young emergent readers will be delighted by the many critters to spark conversation and make connections.

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[Twos Bothell · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were more details than my twos could handle, but it was fairly simple to change and shorten the phrases to fit my class. It does talk about bug eating, biting, and dying, so just a heads up if you are uncomfortable with your child learning about those things at this time. The illustrations were colorful and captured their attention, and lead them to make observations, comparisons and ask questions. It's an information book as opposed to a story.

[Sannro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rekommenderas starkt!

Så vacker att läsa, fantastiska illustrationer. Det lyfter hela boken, och då är den full av intressant fakta till att börja med. Ett litet fynd från biblioteket.