Bug in a Vacuum
  • Published: 1 December 2015
  • ISBN: 9781770496453
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00

Bug in a Vacuum

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9 Apr 2024
Hardback
1 Dec 2015
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From the creator of the bestselling Scaredy Squirrel series comes a clever, hilarious new picture book everyone will be buzzing about!

A bug flies through an open door into a house, through a bathroom, across a kitchen and bedroom and into a living room ... where its entire life changes with the switch of a button. 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. 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.
  • Published: 1 December 2015
  • ISBN: 9781770496453
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Melanie Watt

Melanie Watt drew on her own experiences as a child for the story of Augustine. She is the author and illustrator of several books for children, including Leon the Chameleon, Scaredy Squirrel, Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, Chester and, most recently, Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach. Melanie currently lives near Montreal, Quebec.

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Scaredy Squirrel In a Nutshell
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Praise for Bug in a Vacuum

PRAISE FOR Bug in a Vacuum:

"A bug flies indoors, is sucked into a vacuum, and experiences the five stages of grief while entrapped. The narrative plays it straight, but the double-page spreads--over 40 of them--tell a far livelier story.... Watt, formerly in advertising, packages each successively introduced stage as a product.... She includes a clever, visually parallel story about the household's dachshund, whose favorite toy, a knitted, button-eyed dog, suffers the same fate as the bug. As the highly dramatic insect emotes through the five stages, using the bits and pieces it's been sucked up with as imaginative props, the dog experiences them silently.... Another funny, visually rollicking work from the creator of Chester and Scaredy Squirrel." - Kirkus Reviews