David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $5.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3893-5
Ladybug Girl without her trademark antenna and wings? Only briefly, when she's taking a pre-bedtime bath ("Bubbles make really good beards," she tells her ever-present dog, Bingo). Soman and Davis let Ladybug Girl's personality shine as she puts on...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4030-3
The value of imaginative, free-form play has always been a key element of the Ladybug Girl books, and Soman and Davis emphasize it even more in this outing, which centers around a play date between Lulu and her friend Finny, a brown-skinned girl...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $5.99 (12p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4034-1
There’s no bad time to be thankful, and this board book addition to Soman and Davis’s ever-growing series is applicable any time of year as it catalogues things their heroine—clad, as always, in her recognizable ladybug outfit—thinks highly of. (The
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Jacky Davis, illus. by David Soman, Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-448-45374-3
In this board book spinoff of Soman and Davis's bestselling picture book series, Ladybug Girl (aka Lulu) shares her favorite activities. Along with her steadfast basset hound, Bingo, Ladybug Girl "splashes though huge puddles," goes on a car trip...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3418-0
Ladybug Girl’s sidekick Bumblebee Boy gets a story of his own in this entry in Soman and Davis’s series, an account of a playtime truce between Sam and his younger brother, Owen. The husband-and-wife team bounce between spreads of Sam as Bumblebee...
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David Soman, Author, Jacky Davis, Author . Dial $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3339-8
What's a superhero without a sidekick? Lulu, star of last year's Ladybug Girl
, meets her friend Sam at the playground, but before they can join forces, they must first agree on what to play—a sequence handled with understanding and...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis, Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3416-6
Even though Lulu—in full ladybug bathing suit regalia—has never been to the beach, she knows that she’s going to love it. But at the edge of the water, where she’s dwarfed by a curling wave that spills over an entire spread, she isn’t so sure about...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3582-8
Even on a family camping trip, Ladybug Girl wears her wings, antennae, tutu, and polka-dot boots. Riding a canoe and having a picnic offer new adventures, but exploring the woods with her dog Bingo means being especially careful to hold his leash so
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Jacky Davis, illus. by David Soman, Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3419-7
It's the "first official Bug Squad playdate," and Lulu wants everything to go as planned. At the appointed Bug Squad base, the squad members (with basset hound Bingo in tow) demonstrate their powers: Dragonfly Girl can breathe fire (twirling a boa),
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3583-5
A heavy snowfall offers a blank canvas for Ladybug Girl’s imagination, as well as some frustrations. Bundled up in a many-layered winter version of her trademark ladybug outfit, Lulu explores the yard, tries to build a snow castle, and invents...
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3584-2
What does one dress up as for Halloween when one spends the other 364 days of the year in a ladybug outfit? That’s the question facing Lulu as she tries to come up with the perfect costume, even though it’s already Halloween day. A robot costume...
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David Soman, Author, Jacky Davis, Author, David Soman, Illustrator . Dial $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3195-0
Preschooler Lulu, told to amuse herself, mopes about for a bit, then finds that her ladybug costume—red tutu, wings, red polka-dot boots and a headband with antennae—helps her morph into a bigger, braver character. “Is that rock in
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4032-7
A trip to the natural history museum—with its dizzying array of things to see, do, and learn about—proves to be an opportunity for Lulu to gain a newfound appreciation for mindfulness in this warm addition to Soman and Davis’s long-running series....
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Jacky Davis, illus. by Jay Fleck. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-42902-9
An off-page narrator introduces Black Belt Bunny, a small, energetic rabbit seen wearing a white gi. After telling readers about the skills the rabbit has mastered (“downward blocks, center punches, and knee drops”), the narrator drops a shocker: “No
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Jacky Davis, illus. by David Soman. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-399-18640-0
In her latest outing, Lulu, clothed as always in her Ladybug Girl attire, “flies around the farmer’s market, pointing to the colorful fruits and vegetables. “All the colors make a rainbow!” she says. Another sight at the market that interests Lulu—an
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David Soman and Jacky Davis. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-286917-3
Dressed in a trench coat and fedora, Agent Lion has a cheery disposition and an ardent love for jelly doughnuts—but as a detective, he’s got some shortcomings. Husband-and-wife creators Soman and Davis (the Ladybug Girl series) channel the old Pink...
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Jacky Davis, illus. by Giselle Potter. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-257310-0
Davis (the Ladybug Girl series) and Potter (Independence Cake) celebrate a canine pair’s differences through four stories in this quiet picture book. Pekoe is a lolloping pup with boundless energy; Olive, Pekoe’s elderly dog friend, plods along...
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Jacky Davis, illus. by Fiona Woodcock. Greenwillow, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-257307-0
It starts out as a promising morning for a child, with a father-made breakfast of sunny-side up eggs and a grape juice chaser: “Yes! Purple lips and happiness.” But when Daddy raises the shades, there’s no sunshine outside, just “drips of gray sky...
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Jacky Davis, illus. by Courtney Dawson. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-34945-1
Unable to sleep, a child summons the help of the “Good Dream Dragon” in this fairy tale–like story of nighttime hijinks. When thoughts of cupcakes and counting sheep fail to result in shut-eye, the child—depicted with light brown skin and described...
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