Du Iz Tak?

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A book thta continues to develop with rereads - you are encouraged to decode the language that on first glance looks like gobbledeegook. But even for the novice like me the creative text is understandable and the piece a predominantly visual feast. With gorgeous, exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appear to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" .

In 2018, a short animated film version was released by Weston Woods Studios, a division of Scholastic, adapted, directed, and animated by Galen Fott. When the plant grows taller and sprouts leaves, some young beetles arrive to gander, and soon--with the help of a pill bug named Icky--they wrangle a ladder and build a tree fort. Carson matches them with dialogue in the enchanting foreign language of the elegantly dressed beetles and insects that live on a small, eventful patch of earth.Readers-aloud will want a practice run to ensure their intonation carries the meaning of the words, but it will all make perfect and pleasing sense to imaginative listeners. Tak,” for instance, is the Swedish word for “thank,” although the spelling— “tack” —differs slightly. As a kid one thing I was really interested in was that microcosmic world that’s going on around plants, and I thought other kids would also be interested in that.

Carson Ellis has created a fantastic microcosm with her usual grace and inventiveness…I was completely captivated by Ellis’s wonderful creatures, their charming little world and their droll language. I haven't used it with pupils yet but will, we will work it all out together and it will help our decoding skills. Written entirely in the playful and amusing language of bugs, it isn't necessary to speak fluent moth or ladybug to enjoy the growth and metamorphoses creatively combined through Carson Ellis's delightful words and fanciful illustrations as the seasons subtly transform. With exquisitely detailed illustrations and tragicomic flair, Carson Ellis invites readers to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in even the humblest backyard.

In her follow-up to the internationally acclaimed Home, Carson Ellis invites readers to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in a garden, where insects talk their own mysterious language. A tiny shoot unfolds and begins to grow, as ants, beetles and damselflies look on in wonder and imagine what it is, and all the while a caterpillar lies still in his cocoon, oblivious to the changes happening around him.

Sophisticated, curious, well-dressed bugs watch as a plant shoot grows and blossoms into a magnificent flower. As you peer into a miniature world insects pop up from hidey holes and go about their daily tasks, chatting in their own special language.Here’s a bright, refined fantasy world to be lost in, and one that has its dark, seasonal drama to boot. The real excitement, though, happens when the plant suddenly produces a magnificent flower – or ‘gladdenboot’ in bug language.