Bug Blonsky and His Very Long List of Don'ts by E.S. Redmond
Published by Candlewick Press on January 2nd 2018
ISBN: 0763689351
Pages: 80
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Bug Blonsky and His Very Long List of Don’ts is an early reader drenched in humor.  Over the period of just one day Bug finds himself in many unfortunate situations, some that get him sent to the Principle and others that place him in the time out chair at home.  Redmond describes a young man with attention difficulties who never intends to misbehave yet his impulses lead to negative behaviors. This character is well defined and surely identifiable within any school.

The font is large and the vocabulary is perfect for second and third graders. Certainly the illustrations will resonate with young readers.  Adults may fell however that the teacher and mother are drawn in a very unflattering manner.   This reader takes exception with the identification of spiders and worms as bugs.  In this age of STEM it seems that the scientific identification needs to be correct, even in a fiction book

Submitted by Jan Hamilton, retired youth services librarian in Scarborough, Maine