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Title: The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle, Patricia Gauch ISBN: 0-399-23201-X Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Clumsy Click Beetle
Comment: I'm a Branch Manager of a Public Library and we have found that this book is very good for the children that comes over for school visits. It is so funny to be reading them the book and they start hearing the Beetle make it's sound they start looking around the room trying to find out where it is coming from then they cant believe that it came from the book. Every year when school starts back this is the book that i read to my Kindergarden classes. I suggest that everyone should get this book and watch the look on your childs face when you read this book to them.
Rating: 2
Summary: Library Users say thumbs down
Comment: I'm a children's librarian. I bought this book for my library. I've read it to two groups and showed it to some of the children who come to the library everyday. I thought they would like it since Carle's other book The Very Quiet Cricket is so enormously popular. Their reaction has been thumbs down. The children like the chirping sound from the cricket book, but the click sound from this beetle book doesn't impress them. The dull "click, click" really pales in comparison to the lilting cricket chirp. We've had our copy of the beetle book for almost three months, and it's only been checked out once.
I think a teacher or parent might be able to encourage a child to enjoy the click beetle book by incorporating it into a discussion about bugs. Also, a child who is fascinated with bugs might enjoy it. However, for the average child, I recommend buying The Very Quiet Cricket instead of the Beetle book. For a child who already has and loves the cricket book, I recommend buying Carle's The Very Lonely Firefly, which has fireflies that light up. My library kids like to crawl under desks to enjoy that book in the dark.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book to Teach Kids to Keep Trying!
Comment: This book is well-liked by my class of four and five year olds. The story is clear and engaging. My students especially enjoy opening to the back page to hear the beetle's CLICK!
The little click beetle repeatedly strives in the story to CLICK and flip over onto his feet, a feat shown to him by an older, wiser click beetle. He tries to show this new trick to a variety of other critters with no success. The critters encourage him to keep trying.
We used this story in class to discuss the importance of persistence and practice to learn something new. This book also sparked a discussion about being kind and respectful, as we talked about how things might have been different if the critters in the story had ridiculed the click beetle for his failure instead of encouraging him. You could challenge children to tell how the ending would have been different if the little click beetle hadn't mastered his CLICK at the right time at the end.
Definitely a classroom staple, along with most of Eric Carle's other titles.
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Title: The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399226842 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Juv Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: The Very Lonely Firefly (Board Book) by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399234276 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle ISBN: 0064434508 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Very Busy Spider Board Book by Eric Carle, Benjamin ISBN: 0399229191 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle ISBN: 0064431622 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 09 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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