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Bugs
School Bugs
We're ready for school.
We're on our way.
We can't wait to see what we'll learn today!
Who’s heading to school? The Bugs, of course! From the Spelling Bees and the Counting Bugs to the Sandwich Bug with a big bug surprise in the lunch box, David Carter’s wacky, giggly world of bugs pop and pull throughout this funny, buggy tribute to school days!
Paper-over-board book has cardstock pages with pop-ups on each spread.
We're on our way.
We can't wait to see what we'll learn today!
Who’s heading to school? The Bugs, of course! From the Spelling Bees and the Counting Bugs to the Sandwich Bug with a big bug surprise in the lunch box, David Carter’s wacky, giggly world of bugs pop and pull throughout this funny, buggy tribute to school days!
Paper-over-board book has cardstock pages with pop-ups on each spread.
- GenresChildrensPicture Books
20 pages, Novelty Book
First published June 23, 2009
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About the author
David A. Carter
261 books40 followersDavid A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of the Bugs series, which has sold more than 6 million copies. Also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed Color series, featuring One Red Dot, Blue 2, 600 Black Spots, Yellow Square, and White Noise, he lives in Auburn, California, with his wife and two daughters.
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February 27, 2017• Book title and author/illustrator
o School Bugs
o Written by David A. Carter
• Personal Response to Reviews:
1) Eleanor Heldrich (Children’s Literature)
Artist and paper engineer David Carter has done it again! School Bugs is his 20th pop up book featuring his own special carter bugs, and each pop-up in the book is amusing, surprising, inventive, and just plain fun! Take the first pop-up, for example. It is a little red school house that pulls down from the top with nine carter bugs spilling out onto the page; what is even more amazing is that all nine bugs fold right back into the school house when it is time to look at the next page! There are nine double-page spreads with flaps to open, all of them with pop-ups inside, and not one of them works in exactly the same way as another. There are spelling bees and creative art bugs, counting bugs and ball playing bugs, a sandwich bug and a great pyramid bug, and curious science bugs and four beetle bugs, yeah, yeah, yeah! To top it all off, on the last page, when all the bugs go out to play, there’s a ladder, a sliding board, rings and things, a rope to climb up to a platform, and a butterfly bug flying overhead. David Carter is a master paper engineer. Children are lucky to have him thinking about them.
2) Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)
With zany irreverence, Carter’s bugs return in a pop-up book that features them popping out of a red schoolhouse, then hiding in colorful, themed boxes. Readers can discover “Who’s in the reading box?” by lifting the flap of a blue box decorated with white letters (26 “Spelling Bees” are inside). In the “music box,” the “Beetle Bugs,” dressed as their namesakes, pop up, singing “yeah, yeah, yeah.” The text may be simple, but the well-executed pop-ups will entertain.
• Brief Book Summary:
o This book starts with a trip to school. One each page (on the right side) it asks the reader who is in a certain location. For example it says “Who’s in the art box?” or “Who’s in the sports box?” On the right page it has a flap image in which readers can open and out pops bugs. The book goes on to ask the reader who’s in each box and the boxes represent school subjects. For example, math box, lunch box, history box, music box.
• Personal Response to Reviews:
o Both reviewers compliment Carter on writing yet another successful pop-up book. The review by Eleanor Heldrich specifically compliments the pop-ups and what the bugs are doing in each of them. For example, she mentions how for the reading box pop up there are bugs participating in a spelling bee. I really enjoyed this aspect because it allows children to make connections between visuals and written words. For example, for the math pop-up box there are numbers, which allows children to associate math with numbers. This book is very engaging and will keep children’s attention due to the unique pop-ups and illustrations. For this book there isn’t much background. The book represents the same set up of words on each page. For example, all the words are on the left side of the page while the pop-ups are on the right. Every page starts with “Who’s in the…” and then follows with a different school subject. As stated before, the illustrations connect with the subject being represented. For example, for the sports box there is a pop-up of different sports balls. To make a lesson from this book one could go off the questions being asked. For example, read the book for the students and have them illustrate what they imagine. So if you’re reading “who’s in the lunch box,” have the students visualize and draw a lunch box and what might be in it. After you go through the whole book reveal the images to the students.
o School Bugs
o Written by David A. Carter
• Personal Response to Reviews:
1) Eleanor Heldrich (Children’s Literature)
Artist and paper engineer David Carter has done it again! School Bugs is his 20th pop up book featuring his own special carter bugs, and each pop-up in the book is amusing, surprising, inventive, and just plain fun! Take the first pop-up, for example. It is a little red school house that pulls down from the top with nine carter bugs spilling out onto the page; what is even more amazing is that all nine bugs fold right back into the school house when it is time to look at the next page! There are nine double-page spreads with flaps to open, all of them with pop-ups inside, and not one of them works in exactly the same way as another. There are spelling bees and creative art bugs, counting bugs and ball playing bugs, a sandwich bug and a great pyramid bug, and curious science bugs and four beetle bugs, yeah, yeah, yeah! To top it all off, on the last page, when all the bugs go out to play, there’s a ladder, a sliding board, rings and things, a rope to climb up to a platform, and a butterfly bug flying overhead. David Carter is a master paper engineer. Children are lucky to have him thinking about them.
2) Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly)
With zany irreverence, Carter’s bugs return in a pop-up book that features them popping out of a red schoolhouse, then hiding in colorful, themed boxes. Readers can discover “Who’s in the reading box?” by lifting the flap of a blue box decorated with white letters (26 “Spelling Bees” are inside). In the “music box,” the “Beetle Bugs,” dressed as their namesakes, pop up, singing “yeah, yeah, yeah.” The text may be simple, but the well-executed pop-ups will entertain.
• Brief Book Summary:
o This book starts with a trip to school. One each page (on the right side) it asks the reader who is in a certain location. For example it says “Who’s in the art box?” or “Who’s in the sports box?” On the right page it has a flap image in which readers can open and out pops bugs. The book goes on to ask the reader who’s in each box and the boxes represent school subjects. For example, math box, lunch box, history box, music box.
• Personal Response to Reviews:
o Both reviewers compliment Carter on writing yet another successful pop-up book. The review by Eleanor Heldrich specifically compliments the pop-ups and what the bugs are doing in each of them. For example, she mentions how for the reading box pop up there are bugs participating in a spelling bee. I really enjoyed this aspect because it allows children to make connections between visuals and written words. For example, for the math pop-up box there are numbers, which allows children to associate math with numbers. This book is very engaging and will keep children’s attention due to the unique pop-ups and illustrations. For this book there isn’t much background. The book represents the same set up of words on each page. For example, all the words are on the left side of the page while the pop-ups are on the right. Every page starts with “Who’s in the…” and then follows with a different school subject. As stated before, the illustrations connect with the subject being represented. For example, for the sports box there is a pop-up of different sports balls. To make a lesson from this book one could go off the questions being asked. For example, read the book for the students and have them illustrate what they imagine. So if you’re reading “who’s in the lunch box,” have the students visualize and draw a lunch box and what might be in it. After you go through the whole book reveal the images to the students.
July 2, 2009
Every parent either dreads or anticipates the first day that his/her child goes to school. Unless your child has been in a daycare and is used to being in an environment other than your arms, backyard, or house, this event may prove to be one of those really challenging ones because of separation anxiety on the part of both child and parent. Going to a “big school” with a whole new bunch of faces and places can really be daunting for our innocent little ones.
Thank God for author David A. Carter, an established and expert pop-up-book creator. The jitters and blues will likely go away once you start reading School Bugs to your toddler. It successfully introduces the many joys and facets of school with the help of Carter’s cute little bug friends. From the very first page, the buggy classmates and teacher welcome the little reader to the little red heart-accented schoolhouse with the bright gold bell. It is then followed by the alphabet bug friends who call themselves “The Spelling Bees.” After that come the wonderfully-crafted boxes of art, math, sports, lunch, history, and science – all of which open up to cute little bugs doing fun things children will surely relate to and find irresistible.
Carter is really clever and humorous to be able to display “The Beetle Bugs” when you open the flap to the music box, and this one is my favorite pages, but he definitely saved the best for last. The whole end page turns into one great playground because at the conclusion of each fun school day, all the bugs go out to run and play. I highly recommend this book! The fine paper-art-engineering of Carter was visually stimulating and entertaining for my little one and for me as well, and I know that this book is a treat for my “Johnny” because he claps, gives me a big smile, and sits on my lap whenever I show it to him.
Thank God for author David A. Carter, an established and expert pop-up-book creator. The jitters and blues will likely go away once you start reading School Bugs to your toddler. It successfully introduces the many joys and facets of school with the help of Carter’s cute little bug friends. From the very first page, the buggy classmates and teacher welcome the little reader to the little red heart-accented schoolhouse with the bright gold bell. It is then followed by the alphabet bug friends who call themselves “The Spelling Bees.” After that come the wonderfully-crafted boxes of art, math, sports, lunch, history, and science – all of which open up to cute little bugs doing fun things children will surely relate to and find irresistible.
Carter is really clever and humorous to be able to display “The Beetle Bugs” when you open the flap to the music box, and this one is my favorite pages, but he definitely saved the best for last. The whole end page turns into one great playground because at the conclusion of each fun school day, all the bugs go out to run and play. I highly recommend this book! The fine paper-art-engineering of Carter was visually stimulating and entertaining for my little one and for me as well, and I know that this book is a treat for my “Johnny” because he claps, gives me a big smile, and sits on my lap whenever I show it to him.
January 26, 2013
No illustrator is listed for this book so I am under the assumption that David Carter wrote and illustrated this book. As assigned in week two we needed to selected a engineered book, and I picked this one because I had previously purchased Easter Bugs for my nieces and they LOVED that book and read it so many times that there's just not enough scotch tape to hold it together anymore. I enjoyed school bugs as well, it had some references for the dual reader (adults) such as the Beatles, and Galileo. Each flap incorporates little aspects of the posed question. i.e. the Who's in the art box has graphic color splashes and the who's in the lunch box looks like, well a lunch box.
January 7, 2021
Alright, this author KNOWS kids! His books are incredibly fun. This one is filled with intricate and impressive pop-ups of different school subjects hiding behind boxes, such as a variety of bugs that look like paint brushes in the Art box, different ball bugs in the Sports box, counting bugs in the Math box, and the Spelling Bees. Such a silly book, but word of caution: your infant or toddler may end up tearing the pop-ups like Elliot did on a few pages because they are practically begging to be touched and he was a bit over-zealous! It will be one I will check out again when he’s a bit older and not as rough with books
May 4, 2013
Alice rates all of the bugs books her favorites! The only problem we have with them is that she rips parts out when enthusiastically playing with the pop-ups and pull tabs :) Her favorite part of this one is the counting bugs page.
January 6, 2020
School Bugs and other pop ups have brought back the magic of translation for my year 7s. No dull text books for them, instead they read, play around with pop ups and do a retell for our younger signers. Thanks Mr Carter
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August 31, 2011My son loves this book! Especially the bug sandwich!
October 6, 2015
This was a rather awesome popup book that all three groups of kids from this morning's story time loved. And I didn't break any of the delicate little popup bugs. Yay!
September 11, 2023
Another Bug book. They are all sort of similar and all sort of fantastic. There is something to open, to tug on to see what's inside something else. The last page is this amazing playground set with moving bugs. I can't imagine coming up with that. David Carter has to be an engineer and he can figure all this stuff out.
I know I've said it before, but the Nephew used to love this books. I can't read them without thinking of him. I was watching him yesterday and we played 3 rounds of the Pokemon Go Card Game. He's 10 now.
Another generation can enjoy these books.
I know I've said it before, but the Nephew used to love this books. I can't read them without thinking of him. I was watching him yesterday and we played 3 rounds of the Pokemon Go Card Game. He's 10 now.
Another generation can enjoy these books.
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