Hustle Bustle Bugs

Contributors

By Catherine Bailey

Illustrated by Lauren Eldridge

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Feb 22, 2022
Page Count
40 pages
ISBN-13
9780759557406

Price

$17.99

Price

$22.99 CAD

Format

Hardcover

Format:

Hardcover $17.99 $22.99 CAD

Learn all about the tiny, busy world of bugs in this fun-and-fact-filled celebration of the world just outside our front doors.

Secret cities buzz and bustle with itty-bitty hard work hustle.
Crouch down low—hush. You’ll see how bugs build a community!

 
Ready with their magnifying glass, camera, and scrapbook, two young sisters head into nature to discover all the bugs they can. And the critters are hard at work! From carpenter ants chewing up old trees (like builders clearing a construction site) to butterflies spreading pollen (like gardeners planting seeds) to crickets making beautiful sounds (like musicians playing instruments), bugs belong to a busy world just like people.

With amazingly detailed photographic illustrations of realistic creatures and environments—created with coffee grounds, flower petals, foam footballs, and more—and a bouncy, rhyming text, Hustle Bustle Bugs will have young readers looking more closely at the grass, leaves, and trees around them, and appreciating the community they share!

  • "It’s a challenge to write an informational book in rhyme without the word choices seeming forced, but this one succeeds. With text that flows naturally; it begs to be read aloud."
    School Library Journal
  • "Rhyming couplets meet larger-than-life creatures that are loosely considered bugs."
    Kirkus Reviews

Catherine Bailey

About the Author

Catherine Bailey is the author Dinos Don’t Do Yoga, Harbor Bound, and Lucy Loves Sherman, among others. She lives in Florida and invites you to visit her online at catherinebaileybooks.com.

Lauren Eldridge is the illustrator of Claymates and Sleep Train. She lives in Texas and invites you to visit her online at laureneldridge.com and @eldridgestudio.
 

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Lauren Eldridge

About the Illustrator

Lauren Eldridge had to take a break from sculpting blocks of cheese into cats and unicorns to write this bio. She first studied landscape architecture in school but later decided to earn a graduate degree in teaching. Lauren now builds city streets and house dragons in her basement in Madison, Wisconsin. Claymates is her debut picture book.

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