Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad

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Lulu is so excited for the Bug Squad to come over for a playdate, and she has all kinds of things planned for them to do-right down to eating cupcakes. The cupcakes are special because each one has a candle that Lulu thinks everyone should blow out at exactly the same time.

But when things don't go just the way Lulu planned, feelings are hurt and apologies are necessary. Sounds like a job for Ladybug Girl, who knows how to be brave and say ...

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Overview

Lulu is so excited for the Bug Squad to come over for a playdate, and she has all kinds of things planned for them to do-right down to eating cupcakes. The cupcakes are special because each one has a candle that Lulu thinks everyone should blow out at exactly the same time.

But when things don't go just the way Lulu planned, feelings are hurt and apologies are necessary. Sounds like a job for Ladybug Girl, who knows how to be brave and say she's sorry, even when it isn't easy.

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In their first official playdate, Lulu (a.k.a. Ladybug Girl) and her Bug Squad buddies demonstrate their "superpowers," which include cartwheels, running fast, and saving ants. All seems to be going well until Ladybug Girl's super enthusiasm begins to grate on the group. A gentle lesson about playing together.

Publishers Weekly
It's the "first official Bug Squad playdate," and Lulu wants everything to go as planned. At the appointed Bug Squad base, the squad members (with basset hound Bingo in tow) demonstrate their powers: Dragonfly Girl can breathe fire (twirling a boa), Bumblebee Boy is as "fast as lightning," Butterfly Girl has smarts, and Ladybug Girl can fly, is super-strong, saves ants, and does cartwheels. But there's tension in the group when Ladybug Girl's exuberance comes across as bossiness. Soman and Davis sensitively convey the joys of creative play and the delicacies of children's social dynamics. Ages 3–5. (Mar.)
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 1—Lulu, aka Ladybug Girl, has a play date with her friends who arrive costumed as their own alter egos. Ladybug Girl, Bumblebee Boy, Dragonfly Girl, and Butterfly Girl have an idyllic mini-adventure in Lulu's yard, and everything is going just the way she imagined it would...until it doesn't. The friends don't paint rocks the way she had planned, and then there are hurt feelings over a candle blown out before a wish is made. Piaget might take issue with Lulu's almost immediate insight into the problem she herself has caused, but young readers will ignore the omniscient narrator and just be glad for the resolution—a relit candle blown out (in a conciliatory gesture) by Ladybug and Butterfly. Soman and Davis's simple story speaks directly to that time in childhood when imagination and reality are aligned. Ladybug Girl is given free rein to explore and create, inspiring young readers to emulate her or identify with her. The adorable suburban superheroes in makeshift costumes wander with Bingo, an expressive beagle, through well-tended lawns and woods in a gentle story that many children will enjoy.—Lisa Egly Lehmuller, St. Patrick's Catholic School, Charlotte, NC
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780803734197
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/22/2011
  • Series: Ladybug Girl Series
  • Pages: 40
  • Sales rank: 60,713
  • Age range: 3 - 5 Years
  • Lexile: 710L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 10.70 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Jacky Davis and David Soman live in Rosendale, New York.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 30, 2012

    Good

    This book is a good book for not jusy kids but also adults that like kid like adventures.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 14, 2012

    Zero interactivity.

    This book is far too expensive to have zero interactivity. Have you seen the Dr.Suess series by ocean house media? Infinitely better and cheaper. I was mislead by the website and bought a book that I now cannot return. Cute story, but I would have bought the hard copy had I known.

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  • Posted October 16, 2011

    Everyone needs this book!

    Fantastic book - you must get all the books in this series!

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