Locust Pocus: Poems to Bug You

by Douglas Kaine McKelvey, Richard Egielski (Illustrations)

Filled with amusing illustrations, a rollicking collection of poetry celebrates the wonderful word of bugs, from roaches running around in your cereal bowl and spiders spinning webs while you sleep to lice constructing a house in your hair!

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

The remote descendant of Scottish horse-thieving ancestors, Douglas Kaine McKelvey has already bested the dubious achievements of his predecessors by penning five published books and penning lyrics for more than 250 songs recorded by a variety of artists including Kenny Rogers, Switchfoot, and Jason Gray.

Douglas is currently completing the manuscript for a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel and making slow progress on a companion volume to "Every Moment Holy."

McKelvey was born in New Hampshire and raised in East Texas, but now dwells in the long shadows somewhere south of Nashville with his Norwegianish wife. They have three half-Norwegianish adult daughters and two sons-in-law.

He also has a small, fearless dog that believes it can fly.

Reviews

[Leelo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the concept of this book--introducing bugs to kids through different activities that the kids in the book are doing that intersect with what bugs do. The only thing I have a bit of an issue with is that the words can be a bit too advanced. You can understand what's happening without them but it may discourage them or cause you to pause the story to explain a word. That's not necessarily bad, but it doesn't make for a fluid story for storytime.

[Merriwether · Rating 5 out of 5]

How is Doug McKelvey good at EVERY kind of writing.

[Aleece · Rating 1 out of 5]

It starts out rhyming but it just seemed to go downhill from there. The illustrations were a little disturbing and the people in the book looked a little weird. Also the rhyming didn’t flow as well towards the end. Something about this book just seemed off to me.