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How Many Bugs in a Box?

A Pop-up Counting Book
By David A. Carter
Series: David Carter's Bugs
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In David A. Carter's delightful pop-up book, How Many Bugs in a Box?, young readers join in on a whimsical journey of counting and surprise. Each page offers interactive flaps and boxes filled with charming and imaginative bugs, inviting children to explore and discover the number of bugs hiding within. The book combines vibrant illustrations with engaging mechanics, making learning numbers a joyous experience.
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Format: Novelty book
$4300

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Here is the book that started the Bugs phenomenon! Inside each bright box are bugs to count from one to ten. Bugs fans will laugh and learn as they lift open the boxes and find colourful, comical bugs that pop out, run, eat—and even swim!

How Many Bugs in a Box? will keep children counting over and over again.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781416908043

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Novelty book

Date Published: 01 January 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Little Simon

Illustration: f-c

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by David A. Carter

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 143.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 20

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Activity Books and Kits Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational David A. Carter Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids Series: David Carter's Bugs

About the Author

David A. Carter is a master paper engineer and creator of How Many Bugs in a Box? and more books in that series, which has sold more than six million copies. He is also the author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed One Red Dot, among others. Carter lives in Auburn, California, with his family.

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