I Love Bugs

by Emma Dodd

A large, bright, creepy-crawly bug safari through a little boy’s garden, with a final spread which shows how we often react to them.

Dodd’s text is funny, rhythmic, rhyming and catchy, encouraging even the youngest to join in with a giggle or a shudder.

The print echoes its subject, large or small, while the full page spreads extend the text, allow readers to discover more within them, and relate to the everyday scenes she portrays.   There is extensive use of internal rhyme, and of alliteration, encouraging joining in, repetition and experimentation with language.

A book to intrigue, demystify and reassure young entomologists, as even the scariest insects are given friendly faces, and shown flying near or crawling on the boy.

Publisher: Orchard Books

Emma Dodd

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator.

Emma studied graphic design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. She has illustrated bestselling Noisy Noisy series for Ladybird Books and, with author Giles Andreae, won a Booktrust Early Years Award in 2010 for I Love My Mummy.

Emma Dodd