The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle posted by Anne Reidy

Title: The Grouchy Ladybug
Author: Eric Carle
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Recommended Grade Level: First and Second Grades

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Measurement and Data: Tell and write time

Summary: A ladybug approaches another ladybug at 6 in the morning and threatens to fight the ladybug but decides she is too small. The grouchy ladybug meets and challenges other animals to a fight at every hour on the hour, the clock is displayed on the page. Each bug or animal that the ladybug threatens gets bigger, as does the typeface of the text. You can also watch the sun rise and fall in the sky over time.

Rating:Excellent book. The illustrations are beautiful, the storyline is very funny and children enjoy the ladybug thinking it's a big animal.

Classroom Ideas: The children could hold manipulative clocks while the story is being read and they could change the time on their clocks to be line with the story line. Younger children could talk about the comparisons of big and small, between the sizes of the creatures shown in the book.