By James Carter (author) , Neal Layton (illustrator)
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Hop, leap or bounce into Boing! for bug and mini-beast poetry fun and fascinating facts.
Find beautiful butterflies, ladybirds and dragonflies. Marvel at worker bugs, from tiny ants and busy bees to leaping grasshoppers and fleas. Discover mini-beast heroes - dung beetles, millipedes, spiders - and those amazing 'pigs in space', the tardigrades!
With 24 poems, including shape poems, riddles, rhyming poems and free verse, plus amazing and informative facts about each bug or minibeast on every page, the world of insects is brought buzzing to life, matched by Neal Layton's witty colour illustrations.
James Carte r is an award-winning children's poet. He travels all over the cosmos (well, Britain), with his guitar (that's Keith) to give lively poetry performances and workshops. James once had hair, extremely long hair (honestly), and he played in a really nasty ultra-loud heavy rock band. And, as a lifelong space cadet, James has discovered that poems are the best place to gather all his daydreamy thoughts. What's more, he believes that daydreaming for ten minutes every day should be compulsory in all schools. His poetry titles include Cars Stars Electric Guitars and Orange Silver Sausage (Walker Books) and Time-Travelling Underpants and Greetings, Earthlings! (Macmillan). James was the major contributor to the recent Cbeebies TV series Poetry Pie. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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Hop, leap or bounce into Boing! for bug and mini-beast poetry fun and fascinating facts. Find beautiful butterflies, ladybirds and dragonflies.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-4 years old
Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Recommendations, The Natural World, Wildlife, Poetry Books for Children, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Award
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Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs was written by James Carter and published by Otter-Barry Books an imprint of Otter-Barry Books Limited
Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs has 29 pages
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