The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade by Lori Calabrese
Reviewed by: Chris Singer
About the author:
Lori Calabrese is an award-winning children’s author. Lori grew up on Long Island and will always be a New Yawker at heart. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Communications from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, Lori worked in television for Lifetime, and the New York Mets. She later went on to become a managing producer at World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. where she wrote scripts for TV shows and DVDs and traveled extensively for ten years. After the birth of her two boys, she rediscovered her love of writing and eventually made the leap to become a full-time freelance magazine and children’s book writer. Since then, she’s written about everything from Ancient Romans washing their clothes in urine to peculiar penguins to animals that play dead. It took two years of intense research and honing her writing skills to receive a contract for her first picture book. The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade, was named Dragonfly Publishing, Inc.’s 2009 Best Children’s Book.
About the book:
The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade is a picture book about the play on words when we say, “I’ve caught a bug.” It can mean catching an insect, or catching a cold! This amusing picture book celebrates the ambitious spirit of a third-grader as he tries to study, and uncover a distinct insect on the brink of extinction. Young readers will be buzzing as they follow Matt’s quest to win his school’s Bug-A-Fair. But as he ignores his runny nose and worsening cold, will he create a third-grade epidemic?
Watch the booktrailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlMvoNesyyQ&feature=player_embedded
My take on the book:
Today Book Dads is thrilled to be the 4th stop on author Lori Calabrese's book blog tour for her debut children's book, The Bug That Plagued The Entire Third Grade.
I really enjoyed this fun story about a boy desperately trying to win the school bug fair while also trying to avoid being sent home by his teacher for having a different kind of bug: a cold. Readers will enjoy the building tension that takes place centered on the interplay between the two types of 'bugs' in the story. Will Matt's 'bug' keep him from entering the Bug-A-Fair, or will Matt be able to capture the strange 'bug' which escaped from him?
This story is really well done and I can see dads enjoying this book with both sons and daughters (yes, girls can love catching bugs too!). I also love how Lori developed teacher guides on germs and extinction so the book can be used in the classroom.
Visit loricalabrese.com to purchase your copy today. It will make a wonderful addition to your home, classroom or library.
You can also follow Lori on the rest of her book tour by visiting the following blogs:
November 8
Brimful Curiosities (http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/)
The Children's Book Review (http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/)
November 9 - Mrs.Hill's Book Blog (http://hillbookblog.blogspot.com/)
November 10 - Miss O's Library Land (http://missolibrary.blogspot.com/)
November 11 - Tara Lazar's Writing for Children (While Raising Them)/ PiBoIdMo (http://taralazar.wordpress.com/)
November 12 - N.A. Sharpe's Realms of Thought (http://nasharpe.blogspot.com/)
November 15 - Beverly S. McClure's The Story of a Writer (http://beverlystowemcclure.blogspot.com/)
November 16 - Elysabeth's Stories (http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com/)
November 17 - Raising Itty Bitty Bookworms (http://ittybittybookworms.blogspot.com/)
November 18 - There's a Book (http://www.theresabook.com/)
November 19 - The Iron Bodkin (http://lux-st-clare.blogspot.com/)
November 30 - Into the Wardrobe (http://peteredmundlucy7.blogspot.com/)
