![]() The award-winning author of the Scaredy Squirrel series (Kids Can) is back with an equally engaging, if a bit more sophisticated, picture book to delight audiences. ![]() There is plenty of detail in the illustrations that will evoke adult chuckles and encourage children to look closer. Kirkus Reviews The double-page artwork cleverly illustrates these traumatic events with a muted palette and cute, cartoony characters. Another funny, visually rollicking work from the creator of Chester and Scaredy Squirrel. includes a clever, visually parallel story about the households dachshund, whose favorite toy, a knitted, button-eyed dog, suffers the same fate as the bug. The narrative plays it straight, but the double-page spreads-over 40 of them-tell a far livelier story. Review Quotes A bug flies indoors, is sucked into a vacuum, and experiences the five stages of grief while entrapped. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies in the void? A funny, suspenseful and poignant look at the travails of a bug trapped in a vacuum. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance - the five stages of grief - as it comes to terms with its fate. where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Book Synopsis A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room. ![]() ![]() About the Book Place of publication from publishers website. ![]()
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