Awards
- Commended for Notable Books in the 2018 Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Awards 2018
- Commended for Notable Books in the 2018 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year Awards 2018
Overview
Busy Little Creatures is skilfully illustrated with each creature hand drawn and then collaged with many layers of patterned paper giving texture, vibrancy and depth to each page. An engaging book full of busy little creatures sue to delight and fascinate both children and adults A fun way to explore movement, colours, patterns, sizes and numbers whilst supporting your child's learning and encouraging outdoor play and adventure. 1 leaping green grasshopper 2 fluttering orange butterflies 3 hovering purple dragonflies 4 speedy blue flies 5 ambling red ladybirds 6 scurrying grey slaters 7 meandering brown millipedes 8 waggling yellow bees 9 marching black ants 10 crawling multi-coloured beetles What will you discover today? Out and about or in this book! A special A4 activity book full of great play based ideas has been developed to accompany this picture book.
Full Product Details
Author: Raising Literacy Australia Inc ,
Fiona Bowden
Publisher: Little Book Press
Imprint: Little Book Press
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.153kg
ISBN: 9780648115618
ISBN 10: 0648115615
Pages: 24
Publication Date: 01 November 2017
Audience:
Children/juvenile
,
Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Books that help children to count from one to ten are common. Many are pretty unimaginative, almost indistinguishable and often rely on alliterative cliches such as two tadpoles, four fish, six serpents and so on. This book is quite different.It cleverly tackles four themes at once; numbers, colours, verbs and common animals. The selected creatures are insects and other invertebrates that children are most likely to find in their gardens, reinforcing the identification, naming and observation of these.Each animal has its behavioural characteristics described; hovering dragonflies, meandering millipedes, waggling bees, marching ants and so forth, introducing interesting and quite advanced words to infant readers as well as accurate rudiments of animal behaviour. Colours are well matched to the featured animals. The multicoloured beetle is a gem.The book is beautiful. Fiona Bowden has created her small menagerie from cut-outs of charmingly patterned paper, embellished with hand-drawn elements. The book's careful design allows it to be read either to teach any one of the four themes or include all of them together.Hard and soft covered versions are available, but the latter has the added bonus of attractive endpapers where the animals and their names are shown together. Each book ends with a double page spread of all the creatures in a lovely garden. These two pages alone would make a great bedroom poster for any young child. Dr Rob Morrison
Author Information
Raising Literacy Australia is a not for profit organisation that operates early childhood reading development programs. Our publishing house, Little Book Press, underpins our endeavours through the production of high quality educational resources rich in literacy and numeracy concepts which in turn support the early learning sector and families with young children.
