I Love Insects

by Lizzy Rockwell

Overview

If you love bugs, you will love this book! And you'll learn why they're so important! A Level G science book that's perfect for new readers!


Insects are so pretty.
Look at the pretty butterflies.

The girl in this story loves insects—how they look, how they sound, and how they move. Her friend does not like insects—especially when they sting. Like them or not, children will learn many interesting facts, as well as why insects are essential to human survival!

This science book was written for first graders to read on their own. With beautiful and accurate illustrations, vetted by an expert.

For early-to-mid first grade readers, Level G books feature more complex storylines than prior levels, and a wider variety of structure and punctuation. Illustrations offer support for decoding the more challenging vocabulary words introduced.

The books in the award-winning I Like to Read series are especially created for new readers and are leveled using Fountas & Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators—including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors—create original, high-quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read again and again with their parents, teachers or on their own!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823451777
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Series:	I Like to Read Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	358,318
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Lizzy Rockwell has illustrated more than thirty children's books, including How Do You Feel?, A Mammal is an Animal, Plants Feed Me, and A Bird is a Bird with Holiday House. The daughter of highly acclaimed children's book author and illustrator Anne Rockwell and art director and illustrator Harlow Rockwell, Lizzy continues their legacy. She has even written some books in collaboration with her mother. She lives in Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

★ "This informational early reader employs a controlled vocabulary that intentionally repeats words and phrases to facilitate independent reading. Many recognizable insects appear in the book, like the field cricket and the bumblebee, but Rockwell also includes some, such as the little wood satyr butterfly and the cucumber beetle, that will pique curiosity and encourage budding entomologists to explore further to learn about bugs they’ve never met. A fun, educational science book that thoughtfully portrays kids of color engaging with and learning from nature and each other." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

★ "[A] beautifully illustrated nonfiction early reader. . . . Like in many of Rockwell’s other books, this title pairs fun illustrations with an engaging narrative that makes it accessible. . . . This volume encourages exploration of the natural world and supports a child’s natural curiosity. A great book for beginning readers or to be read aloud."—School Library Journal, Starred Review

"Well suited to beginning readers, the short, large-type sentences flow nicely. Equally appealing to preschoolers, the book makes a good read-aloud, and the clearly drawn, colorful artwork, created using colored pencils, gouache, and watercolors, is well suited to group sharing. . . . An effective science book featuring a simple concept that is carried out beautifully."—Booklist
 
"Illustrations in colored pencil, gouache, and watercolor capture the flora and fauna of a garden while keeping venires connected to the human characters. . . . Love it!"—The Horn Book

From the Publisher

★ 10/01/2021

PreS-Gr 1—This beautifully illustrated nonfiction early reader follows a Black girl and an Asian boy with very different feelings about insects: One loves them and the other hates them. The girl talks to her friend about the many wonderful aspects of bugs—their beauty, how they help plants to grow, and the nice sounds they make. The boy thinks that sometimes bugs make creepy sounds, and they can sting. Can she convince her friend that insects aren't as bad as he thinks they are? This is a wonderful addition to the publisher's "I Like to Read" series of books for emerging readers. Like in many of Rockwell's other books, this title pairs fun illustrations with an engaging narrative that makes it accessible. She features accurate depictions of insects throughout, showing how insects behave through her text and images. A visual dictionary of all of the insects is included in the back matter. This volume encourages exploration of the natural world and supports a child's natural curiosity. VERDICT A great book for beginning readers or to be read aloud.—Kristin Williamson, Metropolitan Lib. Syst., OK

School Library Journal

★ 2021-05-19
In her latest science-focused picture book, Rockwell offers perspectives from two kids with opposing opinions about insects.

A Black girl with long braids and glasses announces her love of insects while a boy of Asian descent, who drops his sandwich running from two houseflies, says he hates them. Throughout this picture book, which teems with color and motion, the girl focuses on the positives, like their beauty, role as pollinators, and benefits to the soil, as the boy highlights the negatives, like their penchant for stinging, the ugliness of insects like fleas, and the damage some such as aphids do to plants. Readers can decide for themselves whether the two protagonists find some points of agreement. The final double-page spread illustrates all of the insects that appear in the book and invites readers to revisit earlier pages to find them, including butterflies, beetles, bees, a mosquito, a cricket, and more. This informational early reader employs a controlled vocabulary that intentionally repeats words and phrases to facilitate independent reading. Many recognizable insects appear in the book, like the field cricket and the bumblebee, but Rockwell also includes some, such as the little wood satyr butterfly and the cucumber beetle, that will pique curiosity and encourage budding entomologists to explore further to learn about bugs they’ve never met.

A fun, educational science book that thoughtfully portrays kids of color engaging with and learning from nature and each other. (Informational early reader. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews