Bug Hunt

by Salina Yoon

Overview

Kids will go buggy over this amazing, interactive Lift-the-Flap adventure from one of the most popular authors in children’s books!
 
From ants and bees to ladybugs and grasshoppers, Bug Hunt invites toddlers to explore the natural world. By lifting the flap, they can see a close-up detail of each creature, while the rhyming verse and fun facts will grab their interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454921080
Publisher:	Union Square Kids
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Series:	Lift-the-Flap Adventures
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	1,061,135
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Salina Yoon is an award-winning author and illustrator with nearly 200 books to her credit and a strong sales track record in novelty board books. Her titles include: Five Silly Turkeys (Price Stern Sloan/Penguin), Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Price Stern Sloan/Penguin), and Rock and Roll COLORS (Cartwheel/Scholastic). Salina has also written six bestselling titles for Sterling: One Halloween Night, One Christmas Eve, Do Crocs Kiss?, Do Cows Meow?, Space Walk, and Deep Sea Dive. In 2009 Salina won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal, Best Book Award, for both Toys and Rock & Roll Colors (Scholastic). Her title, Opposnakes (Simon & Schuster), was a 2009 finalist for the CBC's Children's Choice Book Awards for K-2nd Best Book of the Year. My First Menorah (S&S) was awarded Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year. Learn more about Salina Yoon at salinayoon.com. She resides in San Diego, CA.

Editorial Reviews

2017-04-26
A brown-skinned young girl acts as "bug guide," inviting readers to search for some bugs with her in this attractive offering by Yoon. The book showcases a total of eight common insects, from ladybug and butterfly to bumblebee and ant, one on each page in close-up detail, with a green, leafy background. Each insect is printed on a large flap that's sturdy and easy for a toddler to lift up, and underneath is a colorful illustration of the insect in its natural environment and a rhyming couplet (sometimes clunky but always age-appropriate) giving brief basic facts about it. "Lightning bugs come out at night / and flash their little glowing light"; "Grasshoppers can jump so high! / They also use their wings to fly." The book supports a common misconception by including the spider, an arachnid, with the rest of the insects, encouraging another generation to believe that spiders are insects: "Spiders creep and sneak and crawl. / They weave their webs, both big and small." Bright, colorful illustrations show the insects in natural colors and all at the same size, not drawn to scale. Companion book Dinosaur Discovery works on the same format with a young white-skinned girl as "field guide" and features eight common dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Argentinosaurus, again not to scale. Some of the facts may be unverifiable, such as assertions about coloration and vocalization. Attractive, colorful, and age-appropriate, though not without flaw. (Board book. 18 mos.-4)

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