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The Grouchy Ladybug
by
Eric Carle
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 dev...more
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
August 16th 1996
by HarperCollins
(first published January 1st 1977)
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During the bad tempered ladybird fly towards breakfast he started an argument with an friendly ladybird who he propositioned to an fight but decided not to because he was bigger than the polite ladybird. The bad tempered ladybird decided to find someone big enough to fight. Finally when we propositioned the whale slapped the ladybird and he realised the consequences to his actions and he stopped being bad tempered.
I think this is a good book in the way it’s written with its repetitive streak. T...more
I think this is a good book in the way it’s written with its repetitive streak. T...more
The bad tempered ladybird is a book full of colourful pictures and light hearted humour. The story goes in-depth at exploring important concepts such as different sizes and time. The story tells of a bad-tempered lady bird who picks fights with various animals – no matter how big or small they may be. However soon the lady bird realises that sometimes it is better being in a good mood! The story teaches children many things such as animals names, the times of the day and the different emotions t...more
Eric Carle does right once again with his story, "The Grouchy Ladybug." In his attempt to take over and look tough, the grouchy ladybug encounters many animals across his land whom he tries to stand up to, and make himself look big and scary. It all started out with him not wanting to share some aphids with another fellow ladybug. "I'll show you!" he shouts, and flies until he meets a bigger specimen to mouth off to. He flies upon a lobster, a skunk, and even a whale, and has the audacity to tel...more
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle I enjoyed reading the book it was a great story. This book had several stories in one. This book is about a Grouchy Ladybug who doesn't want to share aphids with another ladybug. The other ladybug is so nice and willing to share with the Grouchy Ladybug. The Groughy Ladybug is also rude to the nice ladybug she was ready to fight over her meal with anyone who got in her way. The nice ladybug wanted to share,polite,and she ended up offereing the grouchy ladybug a...more
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PB10: This is a childhood classic, I think I still have my copy of this book tucked away somewhere in my parents house. The main take away from this book is to not be grouchy, and to share. When you look past the obvious message the book is a great tool to help children learn so many skills. The Grouchy Ladybug sees many creatures throughout his day and a clock is seen on every page to show what time he was with what creature. This is a great way to help children get comfortable with reading a c...more
Among the chief goodwill ambassadors of Class Insecta, the ladybug is a beetle of which most have a good opinion. Playing against type, Carle’s protagonist has a chip on its several shoulders. After encountering and threatening another ladybug over a morning leaf of aphids, this grouchy ladybug flies off looking for a fight. A big one. The die-cut pages typical of Carle books soon come into play as the first page of his adventure is very narrow, just big enough for itself and the yellow jacket i...more
The bad tempered ladybird by Eric Carle
This a lovely illustrated book that is aimed at young children between 4-6 I would suggest. I enjoyed the story as I feel it related to children adapting to sharing in school life. The story itself begins with a nice friendly ladybird that is eating aphids on a leaf only to be joined by an angry ladybird that refuses to share the aphids. The angry ladybird then goes on an angry rampage who has heated exchanges with every animal he meets. He declares that e...more
This a lovely illustrated book that is aimed at young children between 4-6 I would suggest. I enjoyed the story as I feel it related to children adapting to sharing in school life. The story itself begins with a nice friendly ladybird that is eating aphids on a leaf only to be joined by an angry ladybird that refuses to share the aphids. The angry ladybird then goes on an angry rampage who has heated exchanges with every animal he meets. He declares that e...more
This is one of my favorite Eric Carle books! For some reason when I read this book, I changes my voice to sound raspy when I talk for the grouchy ladybug. The children have so much fun when I read this to them and they think that it is so funny. This book has alot going on. Not only does it intoduce diffrent types of animals and bugs, but it is a great book for introuducing time. The lady but goes up to a diffrent bug or animal ever hour and asks if they want to fight. Each page has a clock on t...more
A story follows a ladybird with a bad attitude that wants a fight with somebody. The book has large pictures but quite small text - it would be too small for children to read in a group such as in circle/story time. The ladybird meets lots of animals at different times of the day but decides that each one is not big enough to fight him. Good story for learning animal names, times of the day and emotion. The composition of the pages makes it very easy to follow the pattern of the story.
I used The Grouchy Ladybug in my class when discussing time. The book has a mini-clock in the corner of each page and talks about what the lady bug did at that time. I started out the activity by reading the page aloud and then assigning a student to show the time on a large manipulate clock and asked the other kids to give a thumbs up/down if they agreed with the answer. I then showed them the picture and we checked the answer with what was in the book. The modifications I would make for next t...more
After I had read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” I really wanted to read more books by Eric Carle. “The Grouchy Ladybug” is definitely no exception in reading some of Eric Carle’s great works! “The Grouchy Ladybug” is a Laura Ingalls Wilder award –winning book by Eric Carle and it is about how a grouchy ladybug tries to pick a fight with the other animals no matter how large they are. “The Grouchy Ladybug” is truly one of the most hilarious books about the consequences of bullying that every chil...more
The Grouchy Ladybug, follows an insect through her day, providing some preschool-level humor along with a little bit of learning. This ladybug, however, has a serious attitude and challenges every creature she sees to a fight. When her challenge is accepted, she spits "Oh, you're not big enough" and flies on. The story progresses on cutaway pages, each revealing a larger animal, until she finally meets a whale who dramatically puts her in her place. Each page also shows the trajectory of the sun...more
Apr 11, 2010
Katee
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Summary: This book is similar to "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." It starts out with a grouchy lady bug meeting a friendly ladybug. The grouchy ladybug wants to eat all the aphids and the friendly lady bug suggests that they share. But that's not good enough for the grouchy ladybug so he asks "...do you want me to fight you for them?" The other ladybug said "If you insist." The grouchy ladybug then says "Oh, you're not big enough for me to fight." So he flew away. Starting at six o' clock the grou...more
This book is about two ladybugs trying to eat bugs from the same leaf, one of which is friendly, the other is grouchy. Not wanting to share, the grouchy ladybug offers to fight the friendly ladybug for food but then declines because the ladybug claims the friendly one is not big enough to fight. The grouchy ladybug flies off and encounters many different bugs and animals at different time intervals and wants to fight them but later declines because they too are "not big enough."After being slap...more
This is quite possibly my favorite book from Eric Carle. The humor works very well as this ornery ladybug looking for a fight flits from one large animal to another one that's even bigger to another one that's even bigger and so on, challenging them all but ultimately evading combat each step of the way by making the increasingly prepostrous claim that they're "not big enough" to fight him. This pattern continues until one can't help but laugh out loud at the ridiculous scenes as they happen: T...more
This story is about the bad-tempered ladybird who picks fight with every animal he meets, but he soon learns the importance of friends and turns into a far nicer, happier bug. The book is illustrated really well and demonstrates the size of the different animals. I used this book to teach literacy lesson to a reception class, where children were retelling the story. Although the book is very long I skipped a few pages to the part where the bad tempered ladybird got slapped by the huge whale (whi...more
Jul 02, 2010
jacky
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
toddlers - primary school
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I love Eric Carle. At first, I didn't I thought I was going to be let down by this book. The first few pages didn't seem as good as The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The Very Quiet Cricket. But, once I turned the page and got to the different sized pages, I knew it would be great. I really liked how this book teachers time with an analog clock in the corner of each page. I like the animals increasing in size, and how the font increased in size, too. I loved the different sized pages because it remi...more
The Grouchy Ladybug was an amazing book. It's about a grouchy ladybug, who meets a nice ladybug and wants to fight with her because she didn't want to share the aphids that were on the leaf. The grouchyladybug wanted to fight the nice one, for the aphids but decided that she wansn't "big enough" to fight, so she flew away in search of someone to fight. At the corner of each page, there is a little clock that shows you what time it is, and what the ladybug is doing at that time. That was honestly...more
The Grouchy Lady Bug is such a wonderfully encompassing book! This single book touches so many domains of learning for a child! The beautiful illustrations and strategical set up of the book making learning fun. The pages set up in ascending order with the clocks all lined up in a row is absolutely genius! And what child doesn't love lady bugs?? Even little boys love them! Also, the wonderful vocabulary words add a special touch to the science aspect of the book! All this put together gets this...more
This story is about a friendly ladybird who is eating and is joined by a bad tempered ladybird who also wants to eat but refuses to share the food with the friendly ladybird. The bad tempered ladybird starts to pick a fight with every animal he meets. The story goes on where he meets lots of different animals to fight but he feels that they are not big enough to fight him. As the story progresses the animals get bigger and bigger-and as the animals get bigger the pages in the book also get bigge...more
Pretty sweet book about a pretty pugnacious ladybug. He better not try to fight me or I'll knock his chiclets out! If he stepped to me, first I'd be like "What?!?!":
Then I'd be all, "Fool, you really wanna end up like this chump? I'll beat my own dad, I don't give a damn!":
Then I'd freakin' eat you and all that would be left is some green gunk cuz I eat fools like you for breakfast:
Then I'd be all, "Fool, you really wanna end up like this chump? I'll beat my own dad, I don't give a damn!":
Then I'd freakin' eat you and all that would be left is some green gunk cuz I eat fools like you for breakfast:
I read this book for a lesson on telling time and I LOVED IT! I loved how it has the pictures of the clocks in the corner because they are providing children with a viual of the time stated in that particular page. Also, it is such a fun book to read to children. My class had so much fun with it. They thought it was hilarious when the grouchy lady bug said, "You want to fight?" They also made a lot of predictions during the read aloud about what animals they thought would come next (taking size...more
This is a fabulous book by Eric Carle. The story is about a ladybird who is bad tempered and not very nice. He has a disagreement with a friendly ladybird and sets off on a mission only to be made to look silly each time.
This book is very educational and delivers some very important messages to children which I absolutely love. The importance of being nice and friendly in society. It also shows how important and beneficial it is to share with each other. Being a bully is never ok and this book...more
This book is very educational and delivers some very important messages to children which I absolutely love. The importance of being nice and friendly in society. It also shows how important and beneficial it is to share with each other. Being a bully is never ok and this book...more
I love The Grouchy Ladybug becuase its brings humor while teaching children about time. I used The Grouchy Ladybug in my class when discussing time. The book has a a little mini-clock in the corner of each page and talks about what the lady bug did during that time. She is always trying to fight with another insect, bug, or animal. Children really like this book and I have read it atleast once a week to one of my classes. I love Eric Carle because of his vibrant and colorful images that he uses....more
The Grouchy Ladybug demands another ladybug leave because it wants all the aphids. When a fight is offered, the grouchy ladybug leaves in a huff, claiming the friendly ladybug is not big enough to fight. A yellow jacket, scorpion, elephant and whale are all declared not big enough to fight by the grouchy ladybug. The whale won't answer. The ladybug talks to different parts of the whale until the tail gives a most definitive answer. Getting smacked by a whale's tail gives the grouchy ladybug a re...more
Jun 24, 2012
Aoife
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The bad-tempered ladybird picks fight with every animal he meets, but no one would fight her. As the story goes on the animals get bigger and bigger. The children can tell that the lady bug is getting smaller. At the end of the story, the lady bug is splashed by a dolphin's blowhole and she does not try to fight anyone anymore. The ladybug learns the importance of friends and turns into a far nicer, happier bug.
This book was fun to read to the class and they enjoyed listening. It uses bright co...more
This book was fun to read to the class and they enjoyed listening. It uses bright co...more
This is a classic Eric Carle book. He teaches various concepts in this book. There are many activities that could be done with this book.
It can be used to teach students about sequencing. The book goes in such a smooth order that it would be a good book to for students to start to sequence independently.
This is a good math book to teach time and counting. The time is taught throughout the book. Students could read along with a plastic clock. Also, they could record what they usually do at thos...more
It can be used to teach students about sequencing. The book goes in such a smooth order that it would be a good book to for students to start to sequence independently.
This is a good math book to teach time and counting. The time is taught throughout the book. Students could read along with a plastic clock. Also, they could record what they usually do at thos...more
This is a great book, easily one of my favorites from Eric Carle. It teaches a number of great lessons for young children -- about being kind, that if you go around looking for a fight you'll get one. So it's more than a picture book with a cute story. This is a book every parent should read with their kids. My son loved it; I loved it. An easy five stars.
After reading it, I was a bit appalled to see that the two most recent Amazon.com reviewers claim the book glorifies fighting. Really, anyone...more
After reading it, I was a bit appalled to see that the two most recent Amazon.com reviewers claim the book glorifies fighting. Really, anyone...more
1. Picture book: Concept
2. A grouchy ladybug tries to picks fights with others; however, instead of fighting, she cowardly flies off to pick another fight with another insect/animal. As the day gets later and later, the insects/ animals she picks fights with get bigger and bigger.
3. A. Type; Concepts/themes taught
B. One downfall to this book is on one page, the typography is quite small for beginning reader. However, this error of sorts is so minute when compared to the strength of the amount of...more
2. A grouchy ladybug tries to picks fights with others; however, instead of fighting, she cowardly flies off to pick another fight with another insect/animal. As the day gets later and later, the insects/ animals she picks fights with get bigger and bigger.
3. A. Type; Concepts/themes taught
B. One downfall to this book is on one page, the typography is quite small for beginning reader. However, this error of sorts is so minute when compared to the strength of the amount of...more
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Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is a children's book author and illustrator, most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into over 30 languages. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 71 million copies of his books have sold around...more
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