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When a giant cockroach named Max escapes from their mother's bug laboratory, Leo and his brother receive help from a mysterious stranger who advises them to think like a bug in order to recapture the runaway roach., While visiting the research lab where their entomologist mom works, two brothers must track down an escaped Madagascan hissing cockroach. Watercolor, acrylic, and gouache paintings accompany the text of this beginning reader book.
| Details | | Series: | Puffin Easy-To-Read Series | | Illustrator: | Joan Holub |
| Size | | Length: | 48 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 3.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The positive images of women are just one commendable aspect of this story....Horowitz injects lots of droll wit and sly puns into the tale, along with interesting bits of information about insects and scientific work. New readers will enjoy this on their own, but the story will also work well as a read-aloud and in first- and second-grade classrooms."
Kirkus Reviews (04/15/2001)
"The text has a lively buzz and many tasty insect tidbits, and the vocabulary shrewdly evades complex scientific terms and offers reinforcement in the form of Leo's fondness for buggy turns of phrase ("And Mom will be mad as a hornet!")...Plenty of early readers will welcome this change-of-pace story about a cockroach on the loose."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Deborah Stevenson
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