The title says it all: Wannabe explorer Beetle McGrady, whose heroes are Amelia Earhart and Marco Polo, gets herself into trouble during Fun with Food Week by adding ants to her group's food pyramid. However, when push comes to shove, Beetle isn't quite as eager to engage gastronomically with insects as she'd like. With classmates Roger, Lacey and Mona forming a Greek chorus as Beetle wrestles with her squeamishness, McDonald walks both Beetle and reader companionably through the week until Chef Suzanne shows up on Friday with a selection of wriggly delicacies that allows Beetle to find her inner bug-eater. Manning's watercolor illustrations feature a parka-clad ant (from Ant-arctica, presumably) who watches the freckle-faced, Pippi Longstocking-pigtailed Beetle's struggle from corner vignettes. The images of Chef Suzanne's creepy-crawlies are amiably disgusting; Beetle's grossed-out classmates nicely satisfying. Washy blue images of Beetle as anteater and mealworm form visual counterpoint to a text that finds its subject's voice beautifully: "[B]ird's-nest soup did not make her Marco Polo. Bird's-nest soup just made her a spit-eater." Agreeably icky fun. (Picture book. 5-9)
From the New York Times best-selling author of the Judy Moody books comes this hilarious story about a precocious youngster who's thinking about eating her first bug. Beetle McGrady loves adventure and she wants to explore the world. When her class makes a food pyramid, she decides to add a new food group of her own-bugs! Beetle knows that people in other parts of the world eat bugs everyday, so when the other kids dare her to eat an ant, the real fun begins!
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Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs!
From the New York Times best-selling author of the Judy Moody books comes this hilarious story about a precocious youngster who's thinking about eating her first bug. Beetle McGrady loves adventure and she wants to explore the world. When her class makes a food pyramid, she decides to add a new food group of her own-bugs! Beetle knows that people in other parts of the world eat bugs everyday, so when the other kids dare her to eat an ant, the real fun begins!
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| BN ID: | 2940171081997 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 03/30/2012 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Age Range: | Up to 4 Years |
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