The Scaredy Squirrel animated television series based on her books airs on the Cartoon Network in the US and YTV in Canada. In Canada, she is a multiple winner of the Ontario Library Associations Blue Spruce Award and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Childrens Book Award. Melanies books have received numerous starred reviews from journals such as Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and have won many state awards in the US, including the Virginia Readers Choice Award, North Carolina Childrens Book Award and Marylands Black-Eyed Susan Award. The Globe and Mail About the Author MELANIE WATT is the bestselling creative genius behind many beloved picture books for children, including the Scaredy Squirrel series, the Chester series, Youre Finally Here!, Have I Got a Book for You! and Augustine. The New York Times This book is so eloquently written and illustrated, so carefully and tenderly crafted.

Theres a journey, yes, into the light, but its a happy ending that may just prompt sheer joy at the simple fact of being alive. Quill & Quire In a story heady and intellectually ambitious enough for a jaded adult, yet suited to a childs down-to-earth appetites, a wide-eyed fly gets vacuumed up. Bug in a Vacuum is original, witty, and moving. School Library Journal Mlanie Watts retro-styled illustrations are kitschy, cool, mid-modern masterpieces. The award-winning author of the Scaredy Squirrel series (Kids Can) is back with an equally engaging, if a bit more sophisticated, picture book to delight audiences. There is plenty of detail in the illustrations that will evoke adult chuckles and encourage children to look closer. Kirkus Reviews The double-page artwork cleverly illustrates these traumatic events with a muted palette and cute, cartoony characters. Another funny, visually rollicking work from the creator of Chester and Scaredy Squirrel. includes a clever, visually parallel story about the households dachshund, whose favorite toy, a knitted, button-eyed dog, suffers the same fate as the bug. The narrative plays it straight, but the double-page spreads-over 40 of them-tell a far livelier story. Review Quotes A bug flies indoors, is sucked into a vacuum, and experiences the five stages of grief while entrapped. Will there be a light at the end of the tunnel? Will there be dust bunnies in the void? A funny, suspenseful and poignant look at the travails of a bug trapped in a vacuum. Sucked into the void of a vacuum bag, this one little bug moves through denial, bargaining, anger, despair and eventually acceptance - the five stages of grief - as it comes to terms with its fate. where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. Book Synopsis A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room. About the Book Place of publication from publishers website.

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