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곤충을 유별나게 좋아하는 아만다는 항상 돋보기를 들고 곤충을 관찰하기를 좋아하고, 때로는 곤충과 같이 행동을 하기도 하지요. 개미가 하루에 걷는 거리를 사람에게 비례해서 산출한 60km를 네발로 걸어보겠다고 시도하지만 뒷마당을 벗어나기도 힘이 드는군요. 아만다는 곤충을 보호하는 일도 열심입니다. 밤에는 박쥐들이 곤충을 잡아먹지 못하도록 방해소리를 내기도 하고, 개미가 길을 건널 때는 사람들이 밟지 못하도록 지켜주기도 합니다. 하지만 아만다의 이런 유별난 행동은 친구들 눈에는 마땅치 않은가 봅니다. 특히 아만다와 앙숙인 빅터는 아만다의 의자 위에 징그러운 거미를 올려놓아 놀래키려 합니다만, 아만다는 오히려 거미를 좋아하는군요... 유쾌한 스토리를 읽으면서 곤충에 대해서도 자연스럽게 배울 수 있는 재미있는 그림책입니다.
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Edition: Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN: 053107093X
책 크기 : 25.6cm x 22.3cm
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Book Description
No one at home or school understands Amanda Frankenstein's devotion to insects until she meets Maggie.
Publishers Weekly
Pigtailed and bespectacled-and with a freckled, round face and turned-up nose-Amanda Frankenstein looks like a junior pedant. And perhaps she is. Crazy about insects, the strong-willed girl dumps her brother's fireflies out of the jar and informs him, "Bugs are people, too, you know." Amanda amasses a huge collection of bugs ("Dead ones, of course"), is proud of the number of mosquito bites on her leg (22) and utters the dramatic claim stated in the book's title. Incessantly talking about (and even acting like) various insects, she antagonizes her brother and classmates. The plot wears thin, although some of Amanda's antics are engaging and many of McDonald's (Is This a House for Hermit Crab?) lines are quite funny (when the aspiring entomologist puts her feet on the kitchen table because, she announces, butterflies have taste buds in their feet, her mother orders her to "please keep your taste buds on the floor"). Johnson's (The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down) animated watercolor, colored-pencil and pastel illustrations depend on exaggeration for their humor; even so, they are truer to life than the text in their depiction of ordinary feelings.
Children's Literature
Amanda Frankenstein loves bugs of all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. She examines them, collects them, protects them, and imitates their behaviors. She even gets into trouble at home and school because of her deep interest in them. No one seems to understand her passion for bugs. That all changes when she meets Maggie, a new friend at school, who has a similar passion for reptiles.
School Library Journal
Amanda loves bugs, a fact that no one else seems to appreciate. She examines them, collects them, protects them, and imitates their behavior. She even gets into trouble at home and at school because of them. Kids tease her, and one in particular, Victor, makes her life miserable. In one humorous exchange she calls him ``... a stinkbug on the leaf of life.'' Then she discovers Maggie, a classmate who has a passion of her ownreptiles. Factual tidbits slipped surrepetitiously into the appealing text add information to this spirited tale. It's refreshing to have nonsqueamish female characters who are willing to take on all adversaries in defense of their causes. Full-page and vignette illustrations rendered in soft-hued watercolors, colored pencils, and pastels complement and add humor to the story. They are energetic, engaging, and entomologically correct. Insects Are My Life is an almost-perfect specimen.
Science Books & Films
This is delightful reading for early elementary school students. Thereis a fair amount of accurate information about insects in this brief volume, but two annoying things must be mentioned. First, on the initial page, the author has the main character saying anthropomorphically, 'Bugs are people, too,you know.' Second, throughout the entire text, the term bug is used as a common name for one order of insects only, the Hemiptera. Were it not for these shortcomings, I would have recommended the book for early readers. |
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