The Children’s Book Review | May 18, 2011
“Whimsical watercolor illustrations of a ladybug family and an endearing story about being different, dreaming big, and learning to be brave will appeal to children with wild imaginations—messy sleepers or not.”
Buglette the Messy Sleeper
By Bethanie Murguia
Reading Level: 3-5
Hardcover: 32 pages
Book overview: All sleepers will adore Buglette—a tidy little bug by day, a messy little sleeper at night. That’s when she tosses and turns and kicks and flips while she dreams of doing BIG things like building mountains and kicking balls over the moon. Her quirky habit annoys her family—after all, what if her messy sleeping wakes the scary crow?—until her big dreams help her to save the day. Whimsical watercolor illustrations of a ladybug family and an endearing story about being different, dreaming big, and learning to be brave will appeal to children with wild imaginations—messy sleepers or not.
About the author: BETHANIE DEENEY MURGUIA graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rochester, where she studied psychology and fine art. She received an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York. While in New York, she was an art director for Hearst Magazines. Bethanie lives in Sausalito, California, with her husband and two little buglettes of her own.
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29 Comments
Sounds like a very cute book.
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Amazing book..Love it!!!
I’m a neat sleeper, but I think this looks adorable!
Looks cute! Thanks for the chance.
This sounds like a great book, and so appropriate for my own little messy sleeper! Thanks for the chance to enter!
Love the video!
Great book
So cute! Perfect for my little buglette.
sounds terrific!
book sounds like a great one to share what a great read for grandma (me) and little one
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I teach kindergarten. I think my kinderkids would love this!
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Looks great!
How adorable is this book?!
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Great review and great book for any child that can relate to being tidy and messy…lol!
oh…this looks absolutely adorable! i’m a future teacher and would love to have this for my classroom!
This sounds like an awesome book to include in my ladybug themed storytime at the library.
Buglette has such cute illustrations. If the story is as good I have a little one I know will love it. Story times should to. We so rarely get new titles in the summer.
looks like a cute book please include me thanks
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I simply love it!
We called my son Buglette when he was a baby must get him a copy.He’ll loveit he’s a 24 year old writer in Boston!
new books fo summer reading count me in 🙂
AWESOME BOOK.
Hope I win it!!!!!!!!
We have serious sleeping problems at our house, maybe this would help.
I can’t wait to read this story to my son who can sometimes talk so much that everyone stays awake! The illustrations look so vibrant!
I’d love this for my daughter!
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This book is too cute, my son would love it!
jaidahsmommy(at)comcast(dot)net
I think Buglette sounds perfect., particularly because sleeping can be hard.
Super sweet book!
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Melanie
Congratulations to Melanie! She is the winner of this giveaway.
Melanie: Super sweet book!
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