Description An Amazon Best Book of the Month A young girl learns what it really means to sparkle in this charming picture book about the challenges and joys of making new friends.
Lightning-bug-loving Maude wants to be a member of the Bug-of-the-Month Club in her new neighborhood, and decides that her entrance speech will be about fireflies.
She reads, she researches, she prepares, and she delivers a speech that all the club members love--except for hard-to-please Louise.
Louise won't even let Maude in the club So Maude vows to really let Louise have it for being so rude.
But when she does, it's not in the way anyone expects.
Featuring wonderful illustrations by Jennifer Plecas, Cari Best's Bug Off is a sparkly story about friendship, kindness, and inclusion--packed with info about fireflies, too About the Author Cari Best has written many award-winning books, among them Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and Are You Going to Be Good?, a Parents' Choice Award winner.
She lives in Connecticut.
Jennifer Plecas has illustrated over thirty books, including I, Fly: The Buzz About Flies and How Awesome They Are by Bridget Heos and the beloved Good Knight series by Shelley Moore Thomas.
She is also the author and illustrator of Bah! Said the Baby, which was a 2016 CCBC Choice Selection.
She lives in Kansas City.
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Farrar, Straus And Giroux (byr) Bug off!: a story of fireflies and friendship, hardcover/cari best
