Ladybug on the Move - Hardcover

Fowler, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152004750 ISBN 13: 9780152004750

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993

Synopsis

When a hungry snail starts feasting on Ladybug's leaf, readers must help her find a new home by removing her from the cover pocket and sliding her through the slots of each picture. BOMC Main.

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This cleverly engineered, invitingly illustrated volume takes the idea of a story line literally, striking an ideal balance between the abstract and the concrete aspects of reading. Its heroine, a ladybug in search of a resting place, is reproduced on a separate, diecut bit of sturdy cardstock, so that when the text and pictures indicate new segments of the ladybug's journey (from under a stone and into a flower pot; across the garden shed and toward a purring cat, etc.), the reader can simulate the action. The type is set in curving lines, tracing the character's flight on each page and steering the reader toward a diecut opening through which the cardstock ladybug enters the next spread. This simple but surprising way of advancing the plot receives a suitably dramatic backdrop with Fowler's luxuriant full-spread art, which agreeably and without excess sentiment anthropomorphizes Ladybug along with beetle, slug and other members of the insect kingdom. A pattern for making replacement ladybugs is prudently included. Ages 2-6. BOMC main selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0152004750
• ISBN 13: 9780152004750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 20