It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday.To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technology. The Grouchy Ladybug is bigger and brigher, as irascible but irresistable as ever and will surely delight new generations of readers, as well as her devoted fans of all ages. Happy Birthday, Grouchy Ladybug!
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About the Author
Eric Carle is the creator of more than seventy picture books for young readers.
Eric Carle was born in New York, USA. However, when he was just six, he moved with his parents to Germany. In 1952, after graduating from the prestigious Akademie der Bildenden KÜnste in Stuttgart, he fulfilled his dream of returning to New York.
Eric Carle has received many distinguished awards and honours for his work, including, in 2003, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifetime contribution to children's literature and illustration.
In 2002, fifty years after Carle's return to the United States, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art was opened in Amherst, Massachusetts. Here visitors of all ages can enjoy, in addition to Eric Carle's work, original artwork by other distinguished children's book illustrators from around the world.
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Format:Paperback
This is a great book and the repetition is great for a emerging young reader. My 3 year old can "read" this book to himself and his baby sister because he can anticipate what will happen when he turns the page. He has language delays due to hearing problems when he repeated ear infections and these repetitious books that Eric Carle has done have been wonderful with slowly introducing him to language.
By stefany9579
Format:Hardcover
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my son enough times to have it memorized, I bought this book thinking that it would be a nice change, and expecting The Grouchy Ladybug to have a moral somewhere along the lines of Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (if you haven't read that to your kids, get it). I found The Grouchy Ladybug to be repetative to the point of parental abuse. Eric Carle has good children's books, but this one was definitely not my favorite. The only thing my son has learned from it is "Hey, You, Wanna Fight?" It was okay to read once or twice, but the next garage sale, it's going to mysteriously vanish. I would suggest The Very Hungry Caterpillar instead, if you don't have it.
By Paul
Format:Paperback
Eric Carle has done better. Read the "Very Quiet Cricket". This book is extremely repetitive and isn't really even a story so much as an excuse for the mediocre illustrations and a kind of irritating gimmick of having differently sized pages. These pages are have for my son to turn also.
I love reading real children's stories to my kids, and I don't mind some repetition (e.g., "Guess how much I love you" and "Are you my Mother?" are great...) But the ladybug keeps saying the same thing over and over and over. Yeah, I've hid the book from my kids and they don't miss it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Animal kingdom and clocks
This book tells the story of a grouchy ladybug who didn't want to share the juicy aphids that he found on a leaf with anyone else. Read more
Published on Dec 9 2003 by Erika Mitchell
2.0 out of 5 stars
I can relate to the ladybug.
I enjoyed reading the Hungary Catapiller to my nephews and niece, so I was excited when I saw the Grouchy Ladybug. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2003 by "cocobuns81"
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
I love this book, Some critics say this book teaches children to fight and be grouchy for no reason, but it does have a good moral to it. Read more
Published on Dec 4 2003
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not for small children
My children have enjoyed most of Eric Carle's books. However, the only thing my 5-year-old took away from this book was the words, "Hey, you! Wanna fight? Read more
Published on Oct 2 2003 by A MOM
1.0 out of 5 stars
The very Grounchy Ladybug
I rate this bookony a one. It does not teach children anyhting good at all. If it teaches them anything it would be how to be mean and how to fight. Read more
Published on Oct 1 2003
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Grouchy Ladybug
This book is about a grouchy ladybug that doesn't want to share a leaf with another friendly ladybug, so he flies off trying to find some other animal to fight with for no reason. Read more
Published on Sep 23 2003
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Grouchy Lady Bug
I picked two stars for many reasons. This book is not good for little children, because in the story the character is, a fighter, and does not share. Read more
Published on Sep 23 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a darling book!
I read it for the first time to my twin sons tonight and was amazed at the colorful pictures, the storyline and the way the author counted time for the young readers. Read more
Published on July 26 2003 by Busy Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars
Grouchiness
I loved this book. I really enjoy books my Eric Carle. He does a great job with them. The pictures aren't like any other. They look more like something a kid has drawn. Read more
Published on Mar 13 2003 by Heather
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Books that last
Imagine a 4 year old asking for any Eric Carle book we can find. These books are classics for classy kids. No better way to put them on the reading trails for life.
Published on Dec 1 2002 by Barb Farah
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