Phaidon, 2012 (Release date: April 15)
$12.95, ages 3 +, 40 pages.
Little Speckled Bug is in a muddle over why he's so fond of the new girl bug next door.
Of course she's cute and that's not hard to like about her.
Those long red antennae drape around her face like silken threads and when she dances, her forelegs do two different ballet positions at once.
(The top ones take first position like petals of a flower bud and the middle ones curve into fifth as if she were hugging the air itself.)
(The top ones take first position like petals of a flower bud and the middle ones curve into fifth as if she were hugging the air itself.)
But beyond liking how Bug Next Door looks and moves, what have they between them?
After all, from the day Bug Next Door knocked on his door, the two have had one misstep after another.
Well, except that one time. When she kissed him good-day. Both of their two cheeks streaked pink like an apple blossom.
Now that was nice.
But what about all the stuff that came before that?
In this adorable followup to Bugs in a Blanket and Bugs in the Garden, Beatrice Alemagna returns to the world of her felted bugs to explore the ways of the heart -- how sometimes what makes us different makes us hard to resist.
