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Book Review Wednesday & Giveaway : “busy with Bugs”

January 19, 2011 By Melanie Roberts

I revived a book in the mail the other day called Busy with Bugs written by Toni Albert and Illustrated by Margaret Brandt.

This Best Books Award winner sure deserves this title. It is a wonderful book with 160 extremely interesting things to do with bugs.

If your little ones, especially boys, are anything like mine, they are obsessed with bugs. I haven’t seen any little boy that doesn’t like bugs… My kids are fascinated by them and want to learn anything and everything they can. This book does just that, it has over 60 colorful pages about any bug you ever wanted to learn, or know more about.

This book starts off to tell you about Bugs and the Environment, how to collect bugs, catching bugs and even how to keep a bug. I could go on and on about this book, there is really everything you ever needed to know about a bug from how they grow, to their different shapes and all their disguises. I’m totally mesmerized by this book. I’m not a bug person but I have been reading this book for a few days now and it gets more interesting the longer I read it.

Did you know that you can keep a ladybug in a jar for a week if you care for it carefully? Or how about looking for a frog with a  glowing throat… you know what happened to him?? He ate too many fireflies… I was laughing at that one and so wished we had fireflies here in Florida so I could see glowing frogs.. but that was just too cool.

This is a wonderful book, a great teaching tool for anyone  homeschooling, or even school teachers, the book is just amazing. We loved the pictures and the knowledge in the book is phenomenal. This is a MUST have in every home, I know we will go back many times for years to come and read up on a bug that we found or how to keep that Pill bug alive.

This is the book description:

Busy with Bugs provides an ant hill of activity for kids who love bugs and bug adventures. The book buzzes with practical how-to information, fun facts, and 160 exciting hands-on-bugs activities. By introducing children to thrilling, close-up encounters with the little animals called bugs, award-winning author Toni Albert encourages independent learning and personal discoveries. Children can investigate bug behavior, life cycles, and habitats in their own backyards and school yards.  Busy with Bugs includes field guide information, stunning art in butterfly colors, silly Bug Giggles, fascinating Bug Buzz with surprising bug facts, a glossary, index, resource list, and guide to keeping bugs.

You can purchase your own copy of this amazing book through Amazon.comand retails for $15.95, which is very reasonable priced for a great teaching tool like this. For more info about this book, make sure you check out Trickle Tree Books

Now I know you would love to get your hands on one of those amazing Busy with Bugs books…. The Author Toni Albert graciously offered a book as a giveaway to one of my wonderful readers. THANK YOU

This Giveaway is for one copy of  Busy with Bugs

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This Giveaway will run from  1/19 – 2/2  @ 9PM; winner will be picked through  WordPress “And the Winner is” and will be announced on the Blog and I will send an e-mail. The winner will have 48hrs. to get back to me with mailing info. All items will be mailed from the Sponsor.

I was provided  with the product listed above for my honest review and the prize for my winner . No other compensation was received. All opinions are 100 % my own.

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    January 22, 2011 at 6:59 pm

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  10. Kimberly says

    January 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    I would like to win because what kid doesn’t love bugs.

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  13. Wehaf says

    January 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    My nephew is a budding little naturalist, and I know he’d love this book; it’d be great for him to explore the bug world.

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    January 25, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    I would like to win this book for homeschooling my daughter.

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  24. emily l says

    January 27, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    My son loves reading, and bugs. This seems to be right up his alley. 🙂

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  26. Emillie says

    January 28, 2011 at 3:01 pm

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  32. Viva says

    January 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    We love nature, and bugs. This would be great, thanks!

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  35. Bluerose(Tammy) says

    January 29, 2011 at 9:13 am

    I would love to win, because I’m trying to add some nature themed activities into my son’s play, and this would be great!
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    January 31, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    My grandson loves bugs, snakes, lizards, etc. He would love this book.
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  43. jared's mum says

    January 31, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    i would love to win this giveaway for my son, he loves books so much (even though he can’t read yet). this will be one fab way of teaching him about bugs!
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  47. Andria says

    February 1, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    I’d love to win it for my nephew. He loves bugs.

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  49. Jason says

    February 1, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    My nephew loves everything bugs. He loves it. I think he would love this

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    February 1, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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