The Bug House Family Restaurant

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The Bug House Family Restaurant

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Paperback(Reprint)
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Overview

The Bug House Family Restaurant serves up a delightful platter of poems featuring all kinds of creepy crawlers prepared by the finest chefs. Try our mosquito steak and order a Centipede-Ade to wash it down. How about our chocolate-covered ants for dessert?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926890012
Publisher:	Tradewind Books
Publication date:	02/15/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Beverley Brenna is the award-winning author of nearly a dozen novels for children, young and old. She teaches children’s literature at the University of Saskatchewan and lives near Saskatoon.

Read an Excerpt

If you think you’re going buggy eating burgers and fries
Same old ice-cream, same old pies…

We’ll seat you, and we’ll treat you to wild cuisine!
We’ve the best bug platters you’ve ever seen!

If you crave a beetle, an ant or a fly,
The Bug House is the place that’ll satisfy.

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Editorial Reviews

"[Mongeau's] illustrations help evoke the imagination and may elicit a few 'eeeeewwwws' and lots of laughs...Ths book would be excellent to use in a classroom as the content is engaging and offers a variety of examples of what a poem can look like.Hihly Recommended."

CM Magazine

"The illustrations are as zany as the poems and will delight readers and listeners."

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"Brenna has written a hilarious book of poetry...Mongeau adds to the fun of the book with humorous black-and white illustrations."

Winnipeg Free Press

2014-01-29
Insects are on the menu in this collection of food-related verse. Mannered ink-and-wash drawings of bug cuisine and the stylish diners who consume it accompany rhymed introductions to both. Poems range from a tally of "Daily Specials" ("Each mosquito's sliced and fried / And served with spiders on the side") to introductions to restaurant regulars like "Hervis and Eddy," terrible twins who "dined every night on tarantula skins." Brenna's lyrics are short, regular of meter and rhyme scheme and more easily digestible than most of the food. Along with reliably gross-out entries for bug sushi, ladybug soup, "[s]lick and oozy," beetleburgers and the ever-popular chocolate-covered bees, the author, a native Canadian, adds several regional dishes to the menu: "But…spiders are a Saskatchewan snack, / A Saskatchewan snack, / A Saskatchewan snack! / Spiders are a Saskatchewan snack, / And we eat them a leg at a time!" Tasty and, as bugs show signs of becoming even more common menu items in the near future, timely too. (introduction) (Poetry. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews