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Hugg 'n' Bugg: Finding Home
In the cold wildnerness of the Himalayas, we meet Bugg, a mountain flea in search of a home. Bugg searches high and low for somewhere to live, but nothing seems quite right until he meets Hugg, the yeti.
Join Hugg ‘n Bugg in this comical, illustrated, rhyming story of a heart-warming partnership between the unlikeliest of friends.
Join Hugg ‘n Bugg in this comical, illustrated, rhyming story of a heart-warming partnership between the unlikeliest of friends.
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Published September 22, 2022
About the author
Ian Brown
211 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 30, 2022
This is such a brilliant and fun picture book with some great rhyming throughout! Bugg is a mountain flea, but unlike the other creatures in the mountains, he can’t stand the cold! Being a flea he’s very small and tries to find somewhere to live where he can be warm, but nowhere seems to be a good place for poor Bugg to live, until he accidently lands on top of the very hairy Hugg, a yeti. Bugg decides he likes his new home and in return he will help Hugg who feels embarrassed by his various hairy problems. The book is wider than A4 in size and is filled with thick matt pages of some lovely and colourful illustrations and text.
I like what happens in this story with Bugg trying to find a home to live in but his size proving a problem as most of the places he finds are too big, too smelly, too fast, and just not alright. Once he meets Hugg he beings to like staying in Hugg’s shaggy hair and I like what we learn about Hugg and how he’s afraid of being seen by anyone due to what happens when anybody actually does spot him. The story is quite funny with some brilliant rhyming throughout. The friendship the two strike up is brilliant and I really like what happens at the end, especially to Hugg and his hair!
The illustrations are so brilliant! I’m already familiar with Clarke’s style of illustrations from the Albert the Tortoise series of books but I do like the illustrations in this book even more as a lot of the animals and creatures we see look so good and the setting of the story looks so lovely too. Each of the images feels like a canvas painting with that slight canvas pattern throughout the illustrations and there is so much brilliant detail in some of the double page images which I really like too. I love the way Bugg looks, similar to some of the creatures in the Albert the Tortoise books and Hugg is brilliant too, especially later when you see him in a few different images on a last page!
Overall this is such an interesting first book in the series and I can’t wait to find out what happens in future in the next book ‘Hugg n’ Bugg: The Comb’ which I hope I can get a chance to read when it comes out! The rhyming nature of this story and how well the rhymes work make this such an enjoyable read for me and coupled with the brilliant illustrations and story, I’m sure many children will really enjoy reading the adventures of Hugg an Bugg! 🙂
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy
I like what happens in this story with Bugg trying to find a home to live in but his size proving a problem as most of the places he finds are too big, too smelly, too fast, and just not alright. Once he meets Hugg he beings to like staying in Hugg’s shaggy hair and I like what we learn about Hugg and how he’s afraid of being seen by anyone due to what happens when anybody actually does spot him. The story is quite funny with some brilliant rhyming throughout. The friendship the two strike up is brilliant and I really like what happens at the end, especially to Hugg and his hair!
The illustrations are so brilliant! I’m already familiar with Clarke’s style of illustrations from the Albert the Tortoise series of books but I do like the illustrations in this book even more as a lot of the animals and creatures we see look so good and the setting of the story looks so lovely too. Each of the images feels like a canvas painting with that slight canvas pattern throughout the illustrations and there is so much brilliant detail in some of the double page images which I really like too. I love the way Bugg looks, similar to some of the creatures in the Albert the Tortoise books and Hugg is brilliant too, especially later when you see him in a few different images on a last page!
Overall this is such an interesting first book in the series and I can’t wait to find out what happens in future in the next book ‘Hugg n’ Bugg: The Comb’ which I hope I can get a chance to read when it comes out! The rhyming nature of this story and how well the rhymes work make this such an enjoyable read for me and coupled with the brilliant illustrations and story, I’m sure many children will really enjoy reading the adventures of Hugg an Bugg! 🙂
-Thanks to Graffeg for a free copy
October 21, 2022
Everyone needs a home, even all animals and creatures.
Bugg, is a mountain trendy flee, who doesn’t like the cold and is searching for someone nice and warm for a place to live.
When Bugg meets Hugg a Yeti with warm messy hair, Bugg the flee, has made a friend with Hugg and lives in Hugg’s warm giant head making a bed for himself.
Hugg and Bugg make a perfect friendship deal, while Hugg let’s Bugg stay in his warm hair, Bugg the flee will take care of his best friend’s long shaggy hair.
Hugg ‘n’ Bugg is a heart warming funny story. I recommend this book to all school libraries, as will encourage children to look after all kinds of animals and little creatures.
Bugg, is a mountain trendy flee, who doesn’t like the cold and is searching for someone nice and warm for a place to live.
When Bugg meets Hugg a Yeti with warm messy hair, Bugg the flee, has made a friend with Hugg and lives in Hugg’s warm giant head making a bed for himself.
Hugg and Bugg make a perfect friendship deal, while Hugg let’s Bugg stay in his warm hair, Bugg the flee will take care of his best friend’s long shaggy hair.
Hugg ‘n’ Bugg is a heart warming funny story. I recommend this book to all school libraries, as will encourage children to look after all kinds of animals and little creatures.
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