Bug in a Vacuum
  • Published: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781770496460
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $29.99

Bug in a Vacuum

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Paperback
9 Apr 2024
Hardback
1 Dec 2015
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From the creator of the bestselling Scaredy Squirrel series comes a hilarious, bestselling picture book everyone will be buzzing about, now in a paperback format.

From the creator of the bestselling Scaredy Squirrel series comes a hilarious, bestselling picture book everyone will be buzzing about, now in a paperback format.

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: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781770496460
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $29.99
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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.

Also by Melanie Watt

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Scaredy Squirrel Visits the Doctor
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] 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. . . . Another funny, visually rollicking work from the creator of Chester and Scaredy Squirrel." —Kirkus Reviews

"In a story heady and intellectually ambitious enough for a jaded adult, yet suited to a child's down-to-earth appetites, a wide-eyed fly gets vacuumed up. . . . There's a journey, yes, into the light, but it's a happy ending that may just prompt sheer joy at the simple fact of being alive." —New York Times