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Try a Bite, Trilobite!

Ready-to-Read Level 1

Illustrated by Jonathan Fenske

About The Book

A picky eater learns how delicious it can be to try something new in this laugh-out-loud Level 1 Ready-to-Read from two-time Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor recipient Jonathan Fenske!

Bug wants to share his snack with Trilobite, but Trilobite only likes noodles…until he takes a taste and discovers how one tiny bite can lead to many big bites!

About The Author

Copyright © 2023 Bonfire Visuals

Jonathan Fenske is the author of many children’s books including The Bug in the Bog; Pill Bug Does Not Need AnybodyAfter SquidnightLet’s Play, Crabby!; Wake Up, Crabby!; and Plankton Is Pushy (all Junior Library Guild selections), and the Lego picture book I’m Fun, Too!. His early readers, Nothing Fits a Dinosaur and A Pig, A Fox, and A Box, were both Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor winners. Jonathan lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and three daughters.

About The Illustrator

Copyright © 2023 Bonfire Visuals

Jonathan Fenske is the author of many children’s books including The Bug in the Bog; Pill Bug Does Not Need AnybodyAfter SquidnightLet’s Play, Crabby!; Wake Up, Crabby!; and Plankton Is Pushy (all Junior Library Guild selections), and the Lego picture book I’m Fun, Too!. His early readers, Nothing Fits a Dinosaur and A Pig, A Fox, and A Box, were both Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor winners. Jonathan lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with his wife and three daughters.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon Spotlight (August 29, 2023)
  • Length: 32 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781665932677
  • Ages: 4 - 6

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Raves and Reviews

"This beginning-reader comic finds its strength in a common developmental challenge and literary trope: trying to convince someone to try an unfamiliar food."

– Horn Book, November/December 2023

"This format will entice children who are drawn to the graphic style and feel. Fenske’s brightly drawn, expressive bugs are adorable, and the story flows and moves quickly. ­VERDICT Buy it. Kids will have fun reading the banter between Bug and Trilobite"

– August 2023, School Library Journal

Awards and Honors

  • Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List

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