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Boing! A Bouncy Book of Bugs

by James Carter, illustrated by Neal Layton

Interest age: 4 to 5
Reading age: 4 to 5

Published by Otter-Barry Books

  • Funny
  • Poetry and rhyme

About this book

Dive into a super-fun collection of poems about bugs and minibeasts.

From butterflies and grasshoppers to ladybirds and mosquitoes, there is a lot to enjoy about bugs – especially when told in a bouncy, humorous rhyme.  

Each page of this picture book is a delight. The illustrations are friendly and colourful, with Neal Layton even managing to make bugs look cute.

The rhythmic poems are perfectly pitched at young children, playfully using repetition, dialogue and familiar words to engage them. They are in a variety of forms – shape poems, rhyming couplets, acrostics, kennings, riddles and so on. There is information about each bug on every page, too, for slightly older children, or those who love facts.  

This would be a great introduction to bugs and poetry, all in one fantastically fun book! 

About the author

After fifteen years of writing, performing and recording music (whilst doing a series of jobs from job centre interviewer to recruitment consultant), James Carter went off to Reading University to do a B.Ed degree in primary education and an MA in children's literature.

He is now an award/prize-winning poet, as well as a non-fiction and educational writer. He is the author of many popular and best-selling poetry titles. He travels all over the UK to give lively poetry/music performances and workshops. In the last seventeen years, he has visited well over 1000 schools, and performed at various prestigious literary festivals, including Cheltenham, Hay and Edinburgh.

James lives in Wallingford with his four guitars, three ukuleles, two daughters and one wife.

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