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The audio-book won the 2019 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook production from the American Library Association [2] The audiobook was written by Carson Ellis and narrated by Eli and Sebastian D’Amico, Burton, Galen and Laura Fott, Sarah Hart, Bella Higginbotham, Evelyn Hipp and Brian Hull. Ellis is best known as an illustrator, and her oversized gouache and ink spreads deftly balance playfulness and precision, intricacy and airy background. Written entirely in the playful and amusing language of bugs, it isn’t necessary to speak fluent moth or ladybug to enjoy the growth and metamorphoses creatively combined through Carson Ellis’s delightful words and fanciful illustrations as the seasons subtly transform.

Beneath a broadcloth sky, to a music-box tune, insects in hats or with spectacles emerge, chatting their own insect language, getting ready for whatever the new day brings. A bold retro color palette and lots of white space allow a big beautiful story plenty of room to breathe. It also became clear that many publishers didn’t realize that Ellis’s dialogue was more than nonsense. The story, nominally about the life cycle of a plant experienced by the nattily dressed insects that live around it, is written entirely in dialogue, in a “bug language” invented by Ellis.Every time we read this book we discover new things and I feel that it is teaching my child about nature and discovery, feelings, loss and rebirth. With support from Arts Council, Annie and Katherine worked on bringing the characters to life as puppets, and the tiny props and sets to life. I’ve been in children’s publishing for 25 years and this has never happened to me before,” said Bicknell, the book’s editor.

Readers-aloud will want a practice run to ensure their intonation carries the meaning of the words, but it will all make perfect and pleasing sense to imaginative listeners.

The story, told in an invented insect language, is about some bugs who discover a plant shoot emerging from the ground. Tak,” for instance, is the Swedish word for “thank,” although the spelling— “tack” —differs slightly. As in a traditional wordless title, the sequential images have to be examined closely so that we can create our own version of the story. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon--with the help of a pill bug named Icky--they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort.

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