Face Bug (2013)

Author: J. Patrick Lewis | Photographer: Fred Siskind | Illustrator: Kelly Murphy | Publisher: Wordsong | Ages 6-10

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In this ingenious picture book, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis invites you to visit the Face Bug Museum. There, readers can meet fourteen bugs in Lewis's sly, humorous poems; gaze upon giant close-ups of the creatures' faces in Siskind's photographs; and follow the antics of two beetle friends in Kelly Murphy's artwork. This is a trip to a museum-built by bugs, for bugs-unlike any other. It is also a poetry collection, macro-photography book, and illustrated story-all in one. Includes end notes with photographs of the entire bugs and further information about these creatures.

Face Bug is on the 2014-15 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, the 2014 National Council of Teachers of English Notable Poetry List, and a Bank Street College of Education's Best Books of the Year (Poetry Category).

Face Bug is unique among Kelly Murphy's picture book bibliography in that her artwork does not merely illustrate text, but is juxtaposed with both text (J. Patrick Lewis' poetry) and photographs (by Fred Siskind).

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