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Harris, Trudy

Pattern Bugs

40 pp. | Lerner/Millbrook | August, 2001 | Library ISBN 0-7613-2107-1 $$21.90

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Anne Canevari Green. Harris's rhythmic, loosely rhyming text describes how seven insects move through a backyard garden. Though it's basically a retread of this duo's Pattern Fish, this book cleverly elucidates its concept via verbal and pictorial patterns. In each two-page cartoon illustration, every element, from the decorative frame to the background characters, shares the same pattern (AB, ABB, etc.). An endnote provides further explanation.

Reviewer: Emma Loy-Santelli