Bug Off!: A Story of Fireflies and Friendship

Description

Maude wants to be a member of the Bug-of-the-Month Club in her new neighborhood and decides that her entrance speech will be about fireflies. She reads, she researches, she prepares, and she delivers a speech that all the club members love-except for hard-to-please Louise. Louise won't even let Maude in the club! So Maude vows to really let Louise have it for being so rude-but when she does, it's not in the way anyone expects. A sparkly story about friendship, kindness, and inclusion-packed with info about fireflies, too!

Cari Best has written many award-winning picture books, including In the Country of Queens, which earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews; Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and Are You Going to Be Good?, a Parents' Choice Award winner. She lives in Weston, Connecticut. Jennifer Plecas has illustrated over thirty books, including I, Fly: The Buzz About Flies and How Awesome They Are by Bridget Heos and the beloved Good Knight series by Shelley Moore Thomas. She is also the author and illustrator of Bah! Said the Baby, which was a 2016 CCBC Choice Selection. She lives in Kansas City. jenniferplecas.com

"A useful selection in classrooms as well as a discussion starter at storytime." --School Library Journal "Lessons about friendship and inclusion complement lessons about insects and bugs. . .chock full of fascinating facts about fireflies and how to help them." --Kirkus Reviews