BOTHERED BY BUGS

BOTHERED BY BUGS by Emily Gravett

If you have the opportunity to get your hands on this wonderful picture book, I highly recommend you do so! This one is landing on my SARAH'S FAVORITES BOOKLIST. Read on and you'll quickly find out why!

Just in time for the warmer weather, Bothered by Bugs celebrates the joy of berries and all the wonderful things you can make with them, but it adds in all the bugs that a person (or in this case, animal) will deal with while trying to pick and use the berries.

Fed up with flies and all the other creepy crawlies, Pete the Badger decides that it's times for all bugs to disappear, so the forest animals gather up every one they can find and lock them away in jars. (Isn't the picture below absolutely fabulous?!)

Later, when it's time for the animals to go and pick the berries to make all their yummy desserts, they are shocked to find that there are no berries anywhere. Why? Because all of the bugs were locked away in the jars and couldn't pollinate the flowers.

Told in rhyming verse, this book is one delight after another whether it's in the story itself or the illustrations. Chuckles and learning will abound which is a perfect combo that isn't easily achieved in a book.

I'm going to give one more peek at the overwhelming loveliness of this book. Open up the dust jacket and on the underside there are rows of illustrations of bugs along with a witty and delightful cover to the book itself made to look like the cookbook Pete uses in the story. Oh, and inside the covers are multiple fruit recipes. This book is a spot on treasure in so many ways! Highly, highly recommend!!