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The Bad-Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle is a great puffin picture book. You can buy the book from various places including Amazon where it is priced at £3.55 which is for a paper back copy. The book is suitable for children aged 3-7 years.
The author of the book is Eric Carle who is very well known for his great picture books. In his books he uses great use of colours and imagination. His most famous and successful book is the book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ which I’m sure you will all know. He has produced many other books including: The very busy spider, The mixed-up chameleon, From head to toe, The tiny seed and many more.
My daughters both go to nursery and this week the school have started a new thing where each week every child brings home a story sack. Each sack is full of games, toys and books that the child can enjoy and learn about with there parents. My daughters got a sack each and in one of the
sacks was the book The Bad-Tempered Ladybird. So firstly I’ll tell you a bit about the book then I’ll let you no my views and what my daughters thought of the book.
As soon as you pick up the book you straight away see the picture of the ladybird on the front cover. The picture is simple but gives you the impression that the ladybird is bad tempered. The book starts by telling us that there is a friendly ladybird about to have her breakfast of aphids who offers to share it with the Bad-Tempered Ladybird who refuses to share it and wants it all. The Bad-Tempered Ladybird then offers to fight the friendly caterpillar for the aphids who agrees but then the Bad-Tempered Ladybird says that the friendly caterpillar isn’t big enough to fight. So the friendly caterpillar says find someone bigger to fight then. The Bad-Tempered ladybird then goes on a hunt to find someone bigger to fight. The book then goes on to tell us that each hour the Ladybird meets a different animal that is bigger then the one before. Each time the animal gets ready to find the ladybird the ladybird then states it wants to fight some one bigger so carries on with his search. The ladybird meets various animals including a skunk, a snake, a gorilla and many more .It finally gets to quarter to six at night and the ladybird says to the whale that he wants to fight him. The whale then gives the ladybird a big slap with his tail. The ladybird then flies back to where it started and it sees the friendly ladybirds about to eat some more aphids. The Bad-Tempered Ladybird finally agrees to share them with the friendly ladybird. So the Bad-Tempered Ladybird isn’t so bad tempered anymore. So you can definitely tell the Bad-Tempered Ladybird has learnt a lesson.
I think this book is brilliant it’s not just the storyline that I like it’s the layout of the book and I find the pictures very clever. Similar to ‘The very hungry caterpillar’ in the centre of the book it has pages that you turn that start small and each page gets wider and wider making it easier for your child to turn and making the story more interesting. In the top right hand corner of each page it has a clock showing each time that the ladybird meets another animal. When you look at the pages you can see all the clocks as the pages get bigger. Also on each page it has a picture of the sun which gets smaller and smaller so you can tell that the day is moving on to night.
I think the book has taught my daughters quite a lot they had a play clock that they could change the hands on so as the story went on the play clocks time changed with it. So I have found the book has helped them with the time and learning that as time goes on so does the day. My daughters enjoyed hearing about all the animals the ladybird met. Also how the ladybird started by being bad-tempered and thinking it was really strong till it got beaten by the biggest animal which brought him to realise that he wasn’t the strongest and turned friendly. I enjoyed reading the book and thought a lot of detail had gone into to. The pictures are simple and go with the character of the book.
Overall an enjoyable and clever book.
ISBN 0 14 050.398 6
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Advantages: Excellent story, great illustrations. Teaches about time & why we shouldn't be so grumpy! Disadvantages: None, apart from having to explain what aphids are!
Advantages: Excellent story, great illustrations. Teaches about time & why we shouldn't be so grumpy! Disadvantages: None, apart from having to explain what aphids are!
Advantages: Pages open up and down, vertically & unfold into a huge spread! Disadvantages: None, just be careful that children understand that the moon is much too far away to reach with ladder!
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