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2008 Children’s
Program: Catch the Reading Bug Chapter 1 Planning Chapter 2 Promoting Chapter 3: Backyard Safari Ideas Suggested Backyard Nature Journal: Tracking Bugs Bug collecting, bugs as pets Bug identification “What’s That Bug?” Collecting jar or net Fireflies Grasshoppers Underground: worms, composting, Dig It! Chapter 4: A Bug’s Life Ideas Suggested Attracting bugs Beneficial bugs Bug identification Bug Scientists Butterflies Honeybees  Insect and pond ecology Insect camouflage Life-cycles Metamorphosis State insects Chapter 5: Creepy Crawly Critters Ideas Suggested Ants Beetles Cockroaches Other crawling bugs Picnic in the park Spiders Spider and other insect folklore (Ananse, Arachne, scarab beetles) Chapter 6: Flutter, Buzz and Zoom Ideas Suggested Butterflies Dragonflies Fireflies Flying Bugs House Flies Ladybugs Chapter 7: The Good, The Bad and the (B)ugly Ideas Suggested Bugs under the microscope Cockroaches Edible bugs  Giant bugs Gross bugs Killer bugs Scary bugs Stink bugs Chapter 8: Adult and Family Programs Ideas Suggested Create a butterfly garden Go on a field trip (insect hunting) Nighttime insect walk About the Artist Well known to adults as a regular cartoonist for the New Yorker
magazine, Harry Bliss grew up in Upstate New York amidst a family of
successful painters and illustrators. Mr. Bliss went on to study
painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, illustration
at the University of the Arts and Syracuse University. Mr. Bliss has
illustrated numerous children's books, among them Doreen Cronin's
Diary of a Worm, Marc Gellman's And God Cried, Too: A Kid's Book of
Healing and Hope, Alison McGhee's Countdown to Kindergarten, and
Which Would You Rather Be?, by award-winning children's author
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commented that the "droll watercolor illustrations" Bliss
contributed to Diary of a Worm "are a marvel" because the artist
"gives each worm an individual character with a few deft lines." He
began his career as a freelance artist for magazines while he was
still in college earning his undergraduate degree in illustration.
His first book-illustration project, Sharon Creech's A Fine, Fine
School, was an instant success, marking what a Publishers Weekly
contributor dubbed an "impressive debut" for the cartoonist. 