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Daddy Is a Doodlebug

by Bruce Degen

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ISBN13: 9780064435789
ISBN10: 0064435784
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As Daddy and his little doodlebug snack on potoodle chips, padoodle their canoe, and count firefloodles, they savor the special joys of companionship - doing the things they love together! Bruce Degen's inventive rhyme will resonate with fans of his classics Jamberry and Sailaway Home. The lushly colored paintings are rendered with a crisp, black outline evoking the illustration style of children's books of the 1930's. Bruce Degen invites readers to enter into a world of bugs galore, where buttons serve as the wheels of a teacup buggy and pencils make the perfect swing set! This fanciful storyoodle will entrance young doodlebugs everywhere.

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What do doodlebugs do together...

Daddy and his doodlebug doodle the things that doodlebugs like to do. They snack on potoodle chips while walking through the zoo, ride the caboodle car on the train, and padoodle their canoe through the sun and the rain. And at night when it's time to turn out the light, they say, "Don't let the bedboodles bite!" Because that's what doodlebugs do!

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With inventive rhyme and lush paintings, this book tells a heartwarming story about Daddy Doodlebug and his child that makes this book an ideal read-along for Father's Day. Full color.

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About the Author

Bruce Degen is the author-illustrator of many popular children's books, including Jamberry, Sailaway Home, and Daddy Is a Doodlebug. He is also the illustrator of the original Magic School Bus books. Mr. Degen has been a painter, printmaker, and teacher, and has even painted scenery for the opera. Over the years, he has created beloved bear, pig and bug characters to express the wide range of human emotions in his stories. Young readers will find much to cherish and delight in the expressive hippos in Shirley's Wonderful Baby — new characters certain to become picture-book favorites.

Mr. Degen lives in Connecticut with his family.

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Jennifer Starkman, July 7, 2007 (view all comments by Jennifer Starkman)
The tongue-twisting wordplay of Bruce Degen?s Daddy Is a Doodlebug makes for a uniquely entertaining book about the relationship between father and child, without any of the syrupy preciousness which is all too common in picture books about families. The silly-sounding transformation of familiar words (?We walk our poodlebug down the lane/We ride the caboodle car on the train?) are guaranteed to have kids in fits of giggles; parents may want to have a quick run-through before trying to read this one aloud to their children, as more than one adult has found him- or herself stumbling over these tongue twisters?although often this just adds to the laughs. The rhythm of the story also lends itself to replacing the narrator?s ?I? with the name of the child you?re reading to, making the story that much more fun and personal. Degen?s colourful, cartoony illustrations are fantastic, with loads of details that enhance the story (e.g. a little doodlebug swingset constructed of pencils, a ?zoo? full of insects such as a rhinoceros beetle and an ant lion) and give parents lots of opportunities to talk to their kids, as they read, about all the different things going on in the doodlebug world.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780064435789
Author:
Degen, Bruce
Author:
Degen, Bruce
Author:
by Bruce Degen
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Animals - Insects Spiders etc.
Subject:
Family - General
Subject:
Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks
Subject:
Insects
Subject:
Fathers and sons
Subject:
Stories in rhyme
Subject:
Children s-General
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series Volume:
Band 3
Publication Date:
20020431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from PreS to 1
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
40
Dimensions:
10.04x8.58x.12 in. .36 lbs.
Age Level:
04-08
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What do doodlebugs do together...

Daddy and his doodlebug doodle the things that doodlebugs like to do. They snack on potoodle chips while walking through the zoo, ride the caboodle car on the train, and padoodle their canoe through the sun and the rain. And at night when it's time to turn out the light, they say, "Don't let the bedboodles bite!" Because that's what doodlebugs do!
"Synopsis" by , With inventive rhyme and lush paintings, this book tells a heartwarming story about Daddy Doodlebug and his child that makes this book an ideal read-along for Father's Day. Full color.

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