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The Grouchy Ladybug |  | Author: Eric Carle
Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
Buy New: $8.99
as of 9/8/2010 08:13 MDT details
Rating:  reviews
Media: Board book
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Pages: 44
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 7.1 x 0.9
MPN: HC-069401320X
ISBN: 069401320X
UPC: 038332163698
EAN: 9780694013203
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 great book for my 11 month old! August 26, 2010
Jonathan Then (New York City, NY)
My daughter loves this book, the hard board edition is great but a bit on the small side, the mini pages (different times the lady bug goes to see other animals to fight) are kind of small as is the text, making it difficult to point to the words I am reading as she looks on. I like this book but it is slightly expensive. nonetheless its a good book to have!
Review from Books That Heal Kids July 23, 2010
Books That Heal Kids (USA)
A punch, a kick, a pull, a shove, a pinch.....oh yep, those things happen between kiddos at my school from time to time. There's lots of developmental (and environmental) reasons this goes down. I won't bore you with them. My job as the school counselor is to help kids with social growth and surprise surprise....they can get mad and angry during the school day! I've been reading this story for quite a few years. It's very loved among kids because of it's cool setup with varying page sizes and illustrations. But The Grouchy Ladybug has also been a powerful tool for teaching anger management to my K-2 students. Cuz just about every page she is trying to scrap with someone - "Hey you! Wanna fight!!?" Perfect for teaching replacement behaviors. I love hearing the students try and figure out what's under her anger. They try and relate to her! Another thing that gets this story rockin' is my ladybug puppets (I'm borderline obsessed with puppets...it could be another blog in itself). I have two ladybug puppets the kids use to practice how to handle your anger and solve problems. You can do a lot with this story in the area of social skills.
Life lessons learned by a ladybug June 21, 2010
Maliha (Poughkeepsie, NY USA)
This story about a petulant ladybug who sets on a quest to find someone big enough to fight with was recommended to me by Barbara Haymann-Diaz, a long-time children's librarian who has now retired and volunteers weekly at the Adriance Memorial Library. Eric Carle is a powerhouse in the world of children's literature. Together with his wife, Bobbie Morrison, he founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a museum devoted to the art of children's books in Amherst located near Hampshire College (one of the places I want to visit really badly).
Before the story starts, Carle explains that aphids are pests which are eaten by ladybirds in order to help plants grow. When the eponymous ladybug meets a nice, friendly ladybug who offers to share aphids with him, it turns it down and asks for a fight. However when its invitation is accepted, it backs out, claiming the ladybug isn't big enough to be a worthy opponent. The grouchy ladybug then flies around challenging one creature to another, meeting a yellow jacket, a stag beetle, a praying mantis, a sparrow, a lobster, a skunk, a boa constrictor, a hyena, a gorilla, a rhinoceros and an elephant.
Each animal appears on a different page, at a different hour of the clock, thus helping children learn how to read the time. The book is unique in making each page a little wider than the one before. The grouchy ladybug finally threatens a giant whale, only to be ignored and then slapped by its tail. The page is cleverly shaped like a whale's tail and the reader flips it to find the ladybug back to where it started, this time, much softer and kinder to its fellow bug. The two share the aphids and are thanked by the leaf.
This classic, which came out in 1977, teaches what I've identified in my still young life as one of the most important skills - gratitude. The ladybug comes across bigger and bigger obstacles in the form of larger and larger creatures, but it does not cower in fear. It learns humility from the kindness of a fellow ladybug. The ending is an example of companionship and compassion as the two ladybugs do a good deed by ridding the leaf of pests. Without being didactic, Carle seems to subtly imply that petty pride can do no good.
 Folks are missing the humor June 10, 2010
Dolores~ (Mt. Sinai, NY United States)
Many of the reviewers have complained about the book/character being violent. On the contrary, the grouchy lady bug never actually fights anyone, and in fact always has an excuse as to why it can't fight at that moment. That's the joke. After a couple of confrontations, you realize the lady bug is going to back out everytime...and it's funny! Not to mention the oddity of a cute little lady bug being "grouchy" in the first place!
Lighten up folks. It's a story book. Not everything has to contain a "lesson". Some things can just be funny.
The Grouchy Ladybug March 3, 2010
CMU (Honolulu, Hawaii)
I love all of Eric Carle's books. This copy was purchased to use in a early childhood teacher training program as an example of a quality children's book!
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