Love Bug

Introducing the love-buggiest new character to steal your heart, from award-winning author-illustrator Lucy Ruth Cummins. Perfect for fans of Cupig and Love, Escargot, and just right for Valentine’s Day or anytime you want to share the gift of love!

Love Bug loves spreading love! She showers her friends with flowers and wraps them with bumble-bear hugs, sings them songs and always has a tissue (or two!) when they’re sad.

But when one day Love Bug wakes up with an itsy-bitsy buggy cold and has to stay in bed, she wonders – will her friends still be there for her if she can’t show them love? Luckily, all her buggy buddies know just how to cheer up their sweet pal!

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Love Bug

Introducing the love-buggiest new character to steal your heart, from award-winning author-illustrator Lucy Ruth Cummins. Perfect for fans of Cupig and Love, Escargot, and just right for Valentine’s Day or anytime you want to share the gift of love!

Love Bug loves spreading love! She showers her friends with flowers and wraps them with bumble-bear hugs, sings them songs and always has a tissue (or two!) when they’re sad.

But when one day Love Bug wakes up with an itsy-bitsy buggy cold and has to stay in bed, she wonders – will her friends still be there for her if she can’t show them love? Luckily, all her buggy buddies know just how to cheer up their sweet pal!

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Love Bug

Love Bug

Love Bug

Love Bug

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Overview

Introducing the love-buggiest new character to steal your heart, from award-winning author-illustrator Lucy Ruth Cummins. Perfect for fans of Cupig and Love, Escargot, and just right for Valentine’s Day or anytime you want to share the gift of love!

Love Bug loves spreading love! She showers her friends with flowers and wraps them with bumble-bear hugs, sings them songs and always has a tissue (or two!) when they’re sad.

But when one day Love Bug wakes up with an itsy-bitsy buggy cold and has to stay in bed, she wonders – will her friends still be there for her if she can’t show them love? Luckily, all her buggy buddies know just how to cheer up their sweet pal!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250439420
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Publication date: 11/03/2026
Series: Love Bug , #1
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Lucy Ruth Cummins is an award-winning author, illustrator, and art director. She made her critically acclaimed debut with A Hungry Lion, or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals, and is the author-illustrator of Stumpkin, Vampenguin, Our Pool, and Dalmartian. She has also illustrated several books written by other authors, including Truman and Little Freddie Two-Pants, and is the author of the Sleepy Sheepy books illustrated by Pete Oswald. Lucy lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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