The Buzz on Books # 17

Books about Bugs and Birds are our specialty this week. The cute and very simple book The Crunching Munching Caterpillar by Sheridan Cain and illustrated by Jack Tickle is about a caterpillar that meets a bumblebee, bird, and butterfly. They all are light as a feather and flying through the air while poor caterpillar has to get around on the ground with his many legs. Although this makes the caterpillar sad, he understands that feet are for walking and wings (which he doesn't have) are for flying. After a very long sleep the caterpillar awakes and learns that he is also now light as a feather and has wings to fly, as he is now a butterfly.

The second book, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! is about that ever-so-famous pigeon from the Caldecott Honor book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! In this book written and illustrated by Mo Willems, the pigeon finds a hot dog and is excited to have something so delicious that he has all to himself. That is, until a duckling waddles along and questions the pigeon about the hot dog. After several questions the pigeon becomes upset with the duckling and decides in the end to share the hot dog with the duckling. This book is short and amusing, perfect for a quick family read that teaches sharing. Stop by the Children's Place of the Twinsburg Public Library today to pick up these books as well as others by these authors.