Ladybug Girl

Lulu wants to play but no one is available to play with her. But since she is Ladybug Girl she can do anything!! She has quite an adventure and proves she is not so little after all.

This little girl (who dresses like a ladybug) just has nothing to do, argues with her brother, and ends up finding something to do while outside. I think a lot of kids could relate to this story and it would be a good way to begin to have students make text-to-self connections.

Husband and wife team David Soman and Jacky Davis bring the young girl reader a refreshing diversion from the princess story. Ladybug Girl is the story of a little girl forced to entertain herself while Mom and Dad go about chores and big brother ignores her as she is "too little." Ladybug Girl is

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smart. She knows her letters, tends to her plant, has a vivid imagination, appreciates nature, and is physically active. The character of Ladybug Girl is a stark contrast to the video game playing, TV watching, Dorito munching child. This little girl is celebrated in this book and the story is complemented by the soft illustrations. A must have for a collection looking to provide a "spunky" role model for little girls.

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This is great for ages pre-k to kindergarten. It teaches that no matter what names you might get called, do not let it get you down. Remember to dream big.

This book would be perfect in a pre-k to K class room. This is a great book to inspire children that they are never too small to have fun and be what they want. The little girl in the book dresses like a ladybug, wants to play with her older brother who says “No, you’re too small.” She

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doesn’t let that statement get her down and continues to find ways to help out, like moving a rock that was in the way of ants. She finds out that she isn’t that little because her heart is big! I think students would be able to relate to this heroine. It would be a good way to have students make text-to-self connections.

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My 18-month-old loves it & requests 'ladybug girl book' all the time. The bright costume & the imaginative play make it fun for the little ones; the adults can appreciate some of the subtle humor here and there. "There's nothing to do" in a room stuffed with toys.

Lulu has the day to play by herself - mom and dad are busy, and her brother doesn't want her around.

So she DOES play by herself. She rescues ants. She climbs a log. She splashes in a puddle and counts Ls on the books. She proves to herself how big and grown-up she is.

I like that we see what she's

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really doing as she pretends. I've found that my nieces, when younger, often didn't understand more fantastical illustrations. They couldn't tell if the pictures showed what was REALLY happening or not, and it confused them. And I like that Lulu reacts realistically to her brother's comments that she's "too small" to play with him - "I'm not small, YOU are!"

I don't like that the inside front cover shows a picture of her dressed up as an "Indian". In this day and age, seriously? That's like dressing up in blackface or something. Not cool, not cool at all. When I saw this, I seriously considered giving the book away, but I decided that since this is the only time we see this and I don't typically spend much time poring over the inside cover anyway, it wasn't worth the effort. I'll probably send a note in to the publisher and author complaining, though. I doubt they had any ill intent, but that doesn't make the illustration inoffensive or acceptable.

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I enjoyed this book because I don't feel like I spend as much time in my imagination as I should any more. I feel like this book could have been illustrated with a child from many races because of the basic idea of creating your own fun, which children of all races experience.

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ready around halloween or times when children are dressing up in costume and then could lead to a discussion and dress-up activity as to what each child would dress up as.

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It is morning and Lulu is dressed up as a ladybug. Her parents are busy in the morning and her older brother won't play baseball with her. She is upset and is bored. She goes to explore outside. By the end of the day, she realizes she has done a lot. She uses her imagination and builds a fort, and

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helps tiny ants by moving rocks. She sees her brother arguing with his friends, and she realizes that she does not want to play with him anymore. I would use this book during reading time, and I would use it to motivate my students after a learning rut. Some kids sometimes need to withdraw from the learning, and just have a little fun. I liked this book because the pictures were very realistic. Any kid can relate to how Lulu felt...alone and bored. She used her imagination and had a blast! I did not like how it portrayed your typical, nuclear family. For children with disabilities, I would use this to give them motivation. Lulu was feeling down, and looked at the bright side of things, and had a lovely morning. This book teaches an important life lesson, always explore and use your imagination.

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Lulu, who is dressed up as a lady bug, has to play by her self today. She ask her brother if she could play with him, but he says she is to small. Lulu decides to go on her own adventure in her back yard, after a morning full of fun she knows she is not to little. This is a good book to read to

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children when learning about imagination and you can have fun playing by yourself.

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This was a very cute book with beautiful illustrations. The simple fact that Ladybug girl used her imagination all morning to play, is something great because these days, you find children more and more drifting away from outside play and imagination, always wanting to be bigger and the older

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child. But in Ladybug girl's case, she was bigger and better in her own way, having fun how she never knew she could. This would be a great book to read to children during free time.

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Lulu is dressed as a ladybug. Mom and Dad have work to do around the house and her brother is playing baseball with his friends. Lulu is left to use her imagination and play by herself. At first, Lulu is mad because she has nothing to do but eventually pretending to be Ladybug Girl, she and Bingo

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the dog, find lots of things to do outdoor.

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This was a very cute and full of color book. By looking at the pictures it can tell you most of the story. It is a book about Lulu the Ladybug girl who is trying to play with her big brother but he says no because she is too little. So, Lulu does things on her own to keep herself occupied and

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towards the end of the book she learns that she is not to little.

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This is a great book to use for expression and punctuation. The author uses different fonts of words and emphasizes how to say certain words so the author knows how she is wanting the story to be told.

This is the story of a girl who has to come up with her own fun things to do. Her older brother won't let her play with him, because she is "too little". And she overcomes being called than by doing all sorts of things that make her not little. Even if he thinks she is.

Summary:
Lulu is the Ladybug girl. This day her mom tells her that her and her dad are going to be busy doing things around the house and that she will have to find things to entertain herself. Lulu is not very happy becasue she has no idea what to do or play. Her brother is going to play baseball

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with his friends and Lulu asks him if she could play but he tells her that she's too little to play baseball. At last Lulu finds things to do like helping ants continue their way by removing a rock, crossing the pond, and balancing on a tree. She still insists in playing baseball with her brother but again he tells her she's too little. At the end she realizes that she does not want to play baseball after all and that she is not too little.

Comments:
It is a cute story about an interesting character and her adventures. The illustrations are colorful and very detailed.Good book to read in class.

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Lulu has the day to play by herself - mom and dad are busy, and her brother doesn't want her around. Lulu needs to rely on her imagination and self-reliance to make things right in this imaginative adventure in her own backyard.

This was a super cute book about a little girl who is only as little as she allows herself to feel. I think this is such an amazing idea to share with young children. They need to know that that no one can ever make them feel small as long as they believe in themselves.

This book is great for showing kids about imagination and story progression. This little girl is sure to be a hit.

This is good for teachers to show imagination to the classroom! Cute book and kids could relate to because sometimes they have to do things on their own and if they use their imagination it makes it that much better!

Lulu is the Ladybug girl. Her parents tell her that they are going to be busy and can't play with her so she needs to find something to do. She wants to play baseball with her brother but he says she is too little. She ends up going on her own adventure. She maybe small but her heart is big and can

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do anything she puts her mind to. This book is a great lesson to teach kids that they can really do anything they want. I could also use this to teach a vocabulary lesson.

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Cute book, it teaches imagation. that if you use it, you can do anything that you want to do. Students would love this book because they could relate to it.

In my opinion, this is a decent children’s book. I did not like this book because of the plot. I feel like the plot of the story did not follow the logical organization and pattern that most stories do. The actions of the main characters were very scattered and almost irrelevant, which made the

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story uninteresting and hard to follow. One minute Lulu is looking at ants in the backyard, and then she is sitting in a tree enviously watching her brother play baseball. There is no excitement in the actions she is doing and they do not make much sense to the story overall. Similarly, the story’s conflict is that Lulu is told by her brother that she is too little to play with him, yet there is no solution to that problem. In the end, Lulu is still playing by herself, excluded from the rest of the children. I did like the authors’ language used throughout the book. The authors were consistently very descriptive in their language. The authors wrote, “Lulu sits for a moment listening to the singing sparrows and the squawky blue jays,” which gives a vivid picture of the scenery around Lulu. I think that the authors make it very easy to envision the scenery in the book. Overall, I think that the general message of the book is that age is just a number and one is as old as they act. Lulu was told she was young, but she felt that she was more mature than the other boys.

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The adventures of Lulu as Ladybug Girl begin! Amazing illustrations, and a story line to inspire children with imagination.