![]() ![]() This visual surprise encourages the friendly accessibility of readers’ own backyards as habitats to explore. The second-to-final spread-a long shot-reveals to readers that the earlier illustrations in the book are actually close-ups of a single backyard. ![]() ![]() (“Bug” is loosely construed to include many insects and arachnids.) The mixed-media illustrations play with form and white space, while the artistic-license black-and-white eyes of all the bugs cleverly draw readers’ gazes toward them, encouraging close examination. Some bugs BITE”) while a small ladybug saunters past, serving as a cohesive visual element. With minimal words cajoled into loose rhyme-they have just enough structure to hold their own within the sprawling illustrations-each page of this ebullient book introduces a different bug’s proclivity (“Some bugs STING. A picture book that capers with joy in the buggy natural world. ![]()
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