Reviewed by
Dianne Bates
From the
author of Backyard Birds, shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia
Book of the Year, the latest picture book by Aboriginal Helen Milroy takes the
reader into the garden to share her collection of creepy critters. Written in
rhyming couplets, this picture book will doubtless teach kids about the
scurrying, scuttling, scooting, buzzing, zooming splendour of insects such as
ants, dragonflies, beetles and more.
It is a
simple book, just the right size for small hands, with beautiful, bold patterned
illustrations which showcase Aboriginal art with its use of dots, swirls, and
other decorations. The reader will discover that a spider has eight legs, that
a caterpillar turns into a butterfly and that ‘snail and slug slip slide on
leaves.’ The colours are vibrant, with each left-hand side page displaying the
text on full-colour pages, with the insect represented on the right-hand side.
The detailed end papers in green and brown show all the insects in the book against
whirling patterns.
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