Fly Guy is looking for something to eat. His favourite snack is brown, lumpy, oozy and smelly - but how's he going to find it when everyone keeps shooing him away?
Barnaby the Bedbug Detective (Av2 Fiction Readalong 2016)
by Catherine Stier
Barnaby dreams of leaving the dog pound and doing something heroic, and while his energy frigntens many people away it is just right for Martha, who has him trained to sniff out bedbugs. Includes facts about bedbugs.
Maybelle the cockroach follows the advice of her new fly friend Maurice and tumbles into a terrifying but tasty adventure during Mrs. Peabody's Ladies' Spring Tea.
Illustrations and text present a different insect for each letter of the alphabet, from ants and aphids to zebra longwing.
Schoolboy Jake Mills still has a head lice problem. Following his brain-sharing adventures with Brad in Lousy Thinking, there's another bloodsucker on his mind and this one wants to be an actor. Chuck, as he calls himself, makes Jake audition for the school show. But rehearsals are cloaked in suspicion as things start to go missing from his classmates' bags. Together, they try to catch the thief, but can they solve the crime and steal the show?
Spinderella (Reading Ladder Level 2) (Banana Books)
by Julia Donaldson
When Spinderella and her seven spider siblings want to play soccer, she, along with her Hairy Godmother, must convince the others that numbers are important. Includes facts and activities relating to numbers and soccer.
"Incy-Wincy" takes the well-known poem, "Incy-Wincy spider climbing up the spout" and describe how the spider faces many challenges and failures but carries on despite them. It describes how she balloons on her spun silk and lands in a garden far away. There she builds her web and home but faces many dangers including being eaten by a bird and being swept away by enthusiastic cleaning. Eventually she lays her own eggs and watches with pride as a host of spiderling begin their journeys.
