The Bad-tempered Ladybird

Just like other books from Eric Carle, this book delivers an important message to toddlers and young children about the importance of controlling our temper and to choose our fights. A bad tempered lady bird who does not want to share its food with another friendly lady bird keeps going to bigger and bigger animals and instigating a fight. What happens when it reaches the biggest animal on the earth? And in the end does it really get to eat all the food? A very creative way of illustrating the story with a morale. Children can learn about animals, get a sense of small and big, and appreciate the importance controlling our actions when we are angry. High quality printing, beautiful illustrations and paperback takes almost no space. Overall, I would highly recommend adding this book to your toddler's library.

This is a perfect book for my 4& half year old boy. The value inculcated through this book of being happy, caring and kind is a great help for growing kids. The pages are beautifully cut in a pattern and look beautiful. A must have on your kid's book shelf.

This book is a blessing for me as my toddler is short tempered and with this story book he now understands that we need to be friendly not grouchy. And the concept of sunrise and sunsets is brilliantly described!!

Educational

1. Size comparisons between the ladybird and the opponent she meets 2. The mini clocks on the top to teach how to read time 3. The position of the sun wrt the time on clock 4. The role of aphids in plants and ladybugs lives. What is not to love about this book...!!

Very good picture book. My daughter loves reading it over & over. Illustrations are very good

Book is good. Not as great as other more famous titles by the same author. Packing was shoddy and hence book was dented on delivery hence one star less.

Great illustrations , Good to teach concepts of clock face - time and size - In addition to the perils of being bad tempered

My son loves this book. It is big. It is good to teach about bad temper, and to read clock. And it talks about different bugs and animals as well. It has a clock for almost each page. It is a big book (paperback) the pages are sicker that a regular book, which is good for my 3 year old boy. It has shinny finish of the pages.

This book went into our library

Ma fille a 16 mois donc elle ne suit pas vraiment l'histoire, mais elle aime bien tourner toutes les pages et sur chacune on dit le nom de l'animal, ou on fait son bruit, ou elle cherche un autre jouet représentant le même animal... Sur chaque page elle s'amuse à trouver la coccinelle, qui est de plus en plus petite tandis que les animaux sont de plus en plus grands. Pour un enfant plus grand, il y a aussi le cycle du soleil qui se lève et se couche, les heures avec la représentation de l'horloge... et biensûr aussi l'histoire de la coccinelle pas gentille qui à la fin comprend qu'elle avait tout à gagner en étant gentille. Les illustrations sont superbes comme à chaque fois avec cet auteur.

La historia es preciosa, las ilustraciones muy conseguidas, los niños lo releen incluso de mayores.

A good classic buy