The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff
The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff
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Cuento De Luz
Annotation: A beautiful story that asserts the right to freedom and the value of creativity, against the limitations and conventions we sometimes impose on ourselves.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #218709
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Cuento De Luz
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 11/01/20
Illustrator: Aguirre, Zurine,
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 84-16-73388-0
ISBN 13: 978-84-16-73388-0
Dewey: 468.6
Dimensions: 27 cm.
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

How alarming is an incorrect drawing assignment?It's "just a normal day" in this forest where cheerful insects live in flowers as tall as trees. The schoolroom, inside a tree, has a blackboard and geometry tools. But when students hand in their assigned homework, a drawing of an elephant, the teacher's so stunned by Ladybug's picture that her googly eyes roll around in her head-one eyeball up, one down. "What on earth is that?" Miss Dragonfly exclaims. Ladybug replies: "It's "a giant ball of fluff." (It looks more like a nonfluffy black scribble, like a knotted ball of twine.) The nonelephant drawing earns Ladybug various outsized reactions: a medical visit to check her hearing; stunned parents who react by spying on her; strange looks from the entire community. The disproportionate reactions don't seem to be the joke; the message seems merely that a direct question can clear away confusion. Luckily, Aguirre's zesty illustrations perk everything up. Hilarious yet harmonious visual juxtapositions abound. Insects live atop leaves and under toadstools, yet they have landlines, sinks for brushing teeth, and, amusingly, potted plants. Tiny, crisp, red autumn leaves thrive next to lush, verdant greens; hazy background tree landscapes glow dimly and gorgeously; a beetle's bodily stripes are sharp while tree bark and snail shells are soft. Firefly wings are delicate lace. Insects' faces are blue, green, or beige.A cornucopia of visual textures dresses up a rather obscure story. (Picture book. 4-7)

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Reading Level: 2.0
Interest Level: P-2
Lexile: AD750L
Guided Reading Level: L
Fountas & Pinnell: L

Everybody tells Ladybug her drawing is not an elephant, but a giant ball of fluff. But... is it? A pleasantly colorful book, printed in stone paper, that invites readers to be imaginative and creative. In school, the forest children had fun discovering the names of distant jungles, jumping around in the schoolyard, learning new songs. Miss Dragonfly asked their students to draw an elephant as homework. Ladybug's friends Snail, Firefly and other colleagues were the first to show their masterpiece. Ladybug surprised everyone by drawing a giant ball of fluff. There was no sign of the pachyderm! All the forest animals were worried: why would she have drawn something like that? Miss Dragonfly couldn't believe it, so she warned Ladybug's parents. It was not like her to do such thing... Who knows! Maybe she needed an ear exam... People in the forest started gossiping... But she could not be any healthier! Soon enough, Ladybug made it clear that perhaps they were wrong prejudging her creativity.


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