Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781915659507
Year: 2025
Publisher: Otter-Barry Books


Description:
A top poet and illustrator combine to reveal the amazing world of bugs and minibeasts in this read-aloud collection of poems.



If it jiggles just a little


or its home is in the mud


or it wiggles down its middle …


oh indeed – it's a bug!




If it scuttles or it rustles


or it leaps upon a rug


or it bustles in a meadow …


yes siree – it is a bug!




Best-selling poet James Carter loves bugs. He has written many poems about them, and now here is a whole book devoted to bugs and minibeasts. Buzzing with energy and fun, it celebrates them in all their glorious bugliness – grasshoppers, moths, ladybirds, dung beetles, flies, wasps, even bedbugs get a look in, and finishes with the extraordinary tardigrades who can live in outer space. Many are shape poems – Carter's speciality – some are riddles, and all are perfectly matched by Neal Layton's bugtiful colour illustrations.