Try a Bite, Trilobite!: Ready-to-Read Level 1

by Jonathan Fenske, Jonathan Fenske (Illustrator)

Overview

A picky eater learns how delicious it can be to try something new in this laugh-out-loud Level 1 Ready-to-Read from two-time Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor recipient Jonathan Fenske!

Bug wants to share his snack with Trilobite, but Trilobite only likes noodles...until he takes a taste and discovers how one tiny bite can lead to many big bites!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665932653
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Series:	Ready-to-Read
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Jonathan Fenske is the author of many children’s books including The Bug in the Bog; Pill Bug Does Not Need Anybody; After Squidnight; Let’s Play, Crabby!; Wake Up, Crabby!; and Plankton Is Pushy (all Junior Library Guild selections), and the Lego picture book I’m Fun, Too!. His early readers Nothing Fits a Dinosaur and A Pig, a Fox, and a Box were Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor winners. Jonathan lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and three daughters.

Jonathan Fenske is the author of many children’s books including The Bug in the Bog; Pill Bug Does Not Need Anybody; After Squidnight; Let’s Play, Crabby!; Wake Up, Crabby!; and Plankton Is Pushy (all Junior Library Guild selections), and the Lego picture book I’m Fun, Too!. His early readers Nothing Fits a Dinosaur and A Pig, a Fox, and a Box were Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor winners. Jonathan lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and three daughters.

Editorial Reviews

"This beginning-reader comic finds its strength in a common developmental challenge and literary trope: trying to convince someone to try an unfamiliar food."

November/December 2023 - Horn Book

08/01/2023

Gr 1–2—A great way to encourage children to read is to make available books at their level with characters or subjects that suit their interest. Geisel Honor winner Fenske does just that with his beginning reader titles, and this one is no exception. Much like in Green Eggs and Ham, Trilobite does not want to try Bug's new dish, which appears to be a cupcake. Trilobite loves noodles, and that is that. In an increasingly heated discussion between the two, Bug tries many times to get Trilobite to eat the new food, and Trilobite gets evermore frustrated at Bug's nonstop insistence. The text is written in the form of a beginning graphic novel, with speech bubbles much like in Mo Willems's "Elephant & Piggie" books. This format will entice children who are drawn to the graphic style and feel. Fenske's brightly drawn, expressive bugs are adorable, and the story flows and moves quickly. VERDICT Buy it. Kids will have fun reading the banter between Bug and Trilobite.—Cassie Veselovsky

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