Love Bugs

'The Love Bug'll bite you if you don't watch out...'

Come on a creepy-crawly bug safari through one little boy's garden . . . with a brilliant surprise at the end. Perfect for bug-lovers and budding scientists everywhere! With fun rhyming text and bright, bold artwork, perfect for sharing and reading aloud. From Emma Dodd, the artist behind the best-selling, award-winning I Love You series.

7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiring story in this picture book that celebrates women in science, bugs of all kinds and the importance of staying true to yourself. Sophia Spencer has loved bugs ever since a butterfly landed on her shoulder--and wouldn't leave!--at a butterfly conservancy when she was only two-and-a-half years old. In preschool and kindergarten, Sophia was thrilled to share what she knew about grasshoppers (her very favorite insects), as well as ants and fireflies . . . but by first grade, not everyone shared her enthusiasm. Some students bullied her, and Sophia stopped talking about bugs altogether. When Sophia's mother wrote to an entomological society looking for a bug scientist to be a pen pal for her daughter, she and Sophie were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response--letters, photos and videos came flooding in. Using the hashtag BugsR4Girls, scientists tweeted hundreds of times to tell Sophia to keep up her interest in bugs--and it worked!

Love Bug is lonely, and he's looking for a hug! Will he find another lonely bug to love him, or will he bug everyone? Children and adults alike will love this beautifully illustrated book, full of witty wordplay. The book has an amazing squishy heart cut through to the cover, perfect for little hands to explore.

You don't have to be an entomologist to appreciate the wonderfully realistic watercolor insect images found inside Maryjo Koch's Love Bugs. Offering a "bug-eyed view of love and courtship," Love Bugs presents more than 25 images of dancing dragonflies and bouncing beetles paired with romantic prose. Lovebugs, speckled bugs, grasshoppers, dragonflies, butterflies, and more are compellingly captured by the stroke of Koch's paintbrush and presented alongside humorous and thoughtful entries, such as: * You can't buy love, but presents make a nice first impression. * Opposites attract because they're complementary. * Being in love is like friendship set to music.

"Simple text shares moments of love between parent and child ladybugs"--

Different insects celebrate the reasons they love their young, in a work that has textured illustrations.

'Dear 'Red', Your wings are so beautiful! I wish you were my friend. Or even my valentine...? From 'Blue'. Love is in the garden air on Valentine's Day, but Ladybird is feeling all left out ! Until she opens a letter from a secret admirer. Could it really be from handsome blue Dragonfly? Ladybird is overjoyed! And who is shy Beetle writing to? All will be revealed at a magical moonlit wedding!