Mad About Minibeasts
Written by Giles Andreae
Illustrated by David Wojtowycz
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 978-1-40830-947-6
Summary/Back cover:
The sun is in the sky
And it's a lovely Summer's day.
The minibeasts have seen you
And they want to come and play!
Come into the garden for lots of noisy, rhyming creepy-crawlie fun from the award-winning creators of Rumble in the Jungle and Commotion in the Ocean.
Review:
I was always going to like this book, before I even saw it, as it comes from my favourite author/illustrator team. And it didn't fail to impress - it is written in very much the same style as Commotion in the Ocean, as a series of little poems.
The bugs in each poem are becoming familiar to my 1 year old and 3 year old now, and they enjoy telling me what each bug is before we start the poems - and we have been 'lucky' enough to find some of the same bugs in our own garden, which makes my 3 year old very excited - he has been known to tell a worm that "we have a book all about you!"
Having the story broken into individual poems works well for us, as it means there is space for questions about each bug, without feeling like I'm breaking the 'flow' of a rhyming story.
This has already become a much-requested book from the bookshelf, and is one that I enjoy reading as much as my sons enjoy listening to it.
My rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Review written by Bronwyn
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