Busy Bugs

Toddlers encountering ladybugs, spiders, butterflies, and other many-legged friends for the first time will love pointing to favorite insects and learning their names.

Toddlers encountering ladybugs, spiders, butterflies, and other many-legged friends for the first time will love pointing to favorite insects and learning their names.

Marcie Flinchum Atkins - Children's Literature

This board book has bold, bright colors with simple drawings of easily recognizable items associated with bugs. On each page there is a picture in front of a bright background. Each illustration is outlined in bold, black lines and painted bright colors. The word identifying that object is written below. Some of the pages feature just one bug such as a butterfly, spider, and a bee. Other pages feature more than one bug such as beetles, flies, ants, caterpillars, and ladybugs. This book is an excellent choice for babies and toddler. Babies will enjoy looking at the bright colors. Toddlers will love identifying the items that are pictured. The durable pages make it perfect for use by toddlers and infants. This book is part of a board book series illustrated by the same illustrator. 2003, Kingfisher/Houghton Mifflin, Ages 3 mo. to 2.

Mandy Stanley illustrated both the I Can Count and I Can Spell series and and the award-winning First Number Book and First Word Book, which were both Smithsonian magazine Notable Books for Children. She trained at Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and Nottingham Polytechnic, where she gained a degree in fashion. She worked in children's wear for three years - since then, among other things, she has produced nursery sets for Mothercare, an award-winning range of toys for Boots and a range of books and other resources based on the 'Babe' character.