Bugs are for the birds!
Lisbon is hungry and it’s hard to wait for dinner. When her animal friends try to help her find something tasty to eat, the real the problems begin! Join Lisbon on her funny misadventures.
Each beautiful illustration is designed to inspire the imaginations of children. An activity page at the end of the book allows for more fun as they search for special items in the … special items in the illustrations.
This version of I Don’t Want to Eat Bugs has been designed specifically for ebook with a fixed layout and larger text for easy reading. While this is a great read-aloud book for parents, teachers, and other adults to share with children, we have chosen fonts that are similar to the way children form letters for easy recognition as they begin to read on their own. The print book is also available in 8.5” x 11” format.
Author’s Note:
I Don’t Want to Eat Bugs was written for my daughter, who was two when I wrote this story and didn’t like salad, but now she’s four and a half and loves it—if I give her plenty of salad dressing! (But don’t worry—this isn’t a book about eating salad.) Of course birds, cats, and dogs have a very different idea of what’s good to eat, but through his fun adventure, Lisbon learns there is also food meant just for her—and it’s good, especially compared with all the offerings from her animal friends.
My daughter and I privately call this book the “Ice Cream Story” (she LOVES ice cream so there had to be ice cream involved), and now whenever something funny happens, she says, “We should write a new ice cream story about that.”
And we have! I Don’t Want to Eat Bugs is the first book in a planned series called Lisbon’s Misadventures. I’ve written the next three books in the series, and Tim Petersen is hard at work creating the illustrations. Tim is obviously a fabulous artist, and I’m excited to be working with him. You can sign up on my website to learn when the next book comes out (http://teylarachelbranton.com/). Thank you and enjoy!
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Read this to my kids and they truly enjoyed it. A little girl impatiently waits for dinner and the neighborhood animals invite her to join in theirs.
Nice children’s book. My grandchildren were amused and engaged by the idea of eating bugs or other food that animals eat.
My 6 year old son thought it was funny. It was a perfect book length for his 20 minutes of reading that he has for school. He also asked me to read it again, so I know he enjoyed it!
I enjoyed this book. Not overly simplistic like a lot of children’s books. It still kept my 5 year olds interest too.
It was a fun book to read with my grandsons. They are 5 and 3 and made the greatest faces and sounds and the food options the animals came up with. It lead to a great talk about food.
I purchased this book (download to my Kindle Fire) in hopes that my picky eater 11 year old grandson would read it. He usually reads the first page of a book, then hands it back to me and walks away. This time, he read the whole book quickly. The pictures made the book much more interesting, and the content drew him into each next page of the book. Thank you!
Our granddaughter giggled and said eewww at many parts of this book. Then she said “read it again please!.”
The kids and I read this one first while at a restaurant waiting for our food. So appropriate, and we all loved it from the start.
My 5-year-old grandson liked the book.
“It was one of the best book” said my 9 year old granddaughter
Grandson loves it!
It is silly and my daughter loved it.
kids can identify!
Grandkids loved it!
My son loved this story!
Great illustrations to support the story
my daughter laughed and loved it
My granddaughter did an excellent job reading this book. Thanksgiving you,
It’s really good to read it to your kids, it’s really good and understandable. Also, teach kids don’t ate food for other people
i like this book