Who's Bugging You?

Charles Reasoner has designed a whole series of these interactive sliding books. All of them will probably have to be read with your child since the sliding feature is simply too hard to them to work. Each pages describes the action of a particular bug and then asks which bug does such and such. In all of his books, the animals are hidden between the page (which you are supposed to pull apart to reveal the animal). If your child was to look at it alone, he would simply be viewing pages of scenery. The bugs also look very cartoonish and don't entirely resemble what they are supposed to be. Having said this, I don't regret the purchase and recommend this book - with some reservations.

This series of books (all by Charles Reasoner) is a lot of fun. Each book has pages that split in the middle and slide open, revealing a hidden picture on a page hidden inside. On each page there is a question - for this book they start with, "Which bug ...?" (i.e. which bug does such and such) and the answer is a picture of the bug inside. The illustrations are colorful and bold and the bugs are cute.The books in this series are some of the favorite books of our friends' daughter (toddler). Our daughter (also a toddler) loves the pictures but the mechanics of the sliding pages are stiff, so she can't slide the pictures in and out herself, and that makes her very frustrated!! This is a great book if you have a toddler who likes to have you read to him/her, and it's also attractive enough for them to read on their own without sliding the pages (though they don't get to see the bugs that way). If your toddler wants to be independent and "read" to him or herself, though, it could be frustrating. It's a very creative idea, and I still rate it at 4 stars because it really is a fun book to read. I think, though, that it doesn't work as well as was originally intended.