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Big Bug
- Subject
- Concepts - Size & Shape
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Little Simon
- Size
- 23.9 cm Ć 23.1 cm
- ISBN
- 9781442498976
Size is relative, but everything is worth seeing in this concept book from the illustrator of And Tango Makes Three.
Beginning with a beautiful close-up of a ābigā ladybug, this book artfully depicts the concept of scale. The book zooms out from the bug, to a flower, to a cow, all the way to an expansive spread of sky. Then Henry Cole masterfully zooms back in from that sky, to a tree, to a house, to a window, all the way to the end where an adorable dog is taking a ālittleā nap.
In this ideal introduction to the concept of scale, young readers will love the lush illustrations of the animals, objects, and scenery of a farm, and theyāll delight in seeing how something ābigā can suddenly seem ālittleā with the turn of a page!
Beginning with a beautiful close-up of a ābigā ladybug, this book artfully depicts the concept of scale. The book zooms out from the bug, to a flower, to a cow, all the way to an expansive spread of sky. Then Henry Cole masterfully zooms back in from that sky, to a tree, to a house, to a window, all the way to the end where an adorable dog is taking a ālittleā nap.
In this ideal introduction to the concept of scale, young readers will love the lush illustrations of the animals, objects, and scenery of a farm, and theyāll delight in seeing how something ābigā can suddenly seem ālittleā with the turn of a page!
About the author
Henry ColeAuthor
Henry Cole has written and illustrated more than 150 books for children, including Spot, the Cat; And Tango Makes Three; Oink?; and Little Bo in France. He is also the illustrator of With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A former elementary school teacher, he now writes and paints full time.
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What reviewers said
A bug may look huge to itself and other bugs. A leaf may seem big among other leaves. When you put the two objects next to each other, one will look bigger in comparison to the other. Cole has taken this idea of scale and turned it into a fascinating story that will delight kids and enthrall parents and teachers looking to teach the concept to young children. The lush paintings capture the beauty of the natural world while also showing simple comparisons. The spare text is perfectly used throughout, highlighting the unique qualities of the things that surround us. Cole starts off with aā¦
What is big and what is little? Itās an enormous question, especially for young children who are just beginning to acquire a tentative understanding of their place in the physical world. The concepts of scale and spatial relationships are presented in a series of scenes comparing creatures and objects in various juxtapositions depending on viewpoint or perspective. The tiny ladybug appears very large when viewed up close, but place it on a leaf, and it is miniscule. Zooming in on a flower makes it appear enormous, but itās much smaller when placed next to a dog, which in turn is much smallerā¦
In Coleās latest picture book, an object can be seen as big or little depending on context. The words āBig bugā appear on a double-page spread almost filled with a picture of a ladybug. The next spread, illustrating āLittle bug / Big leaf,ā shows a smaller picture of the same ladybug on a large leaf. Each turn of the page takes the viewer farther away. The leaf is little compared with a nearby flower, but the flower is little next to a dog, which is dwarfed by a cow. After the ābigā object pictured is the sky, the comparison vector shifts, and everything named is smaller than its predecessor.ā¦
