"…All bugs are awesome and that is a fact. Raise your leg or antenna and let's make a pact…"

"If words make up stories, and letters make up words, then stories are made of letters..."

Young Tiger’s parents don’t take her seriously, taking a second dinner to her bedroom “to feed her Monster.”

Warning: this book may cause drooling.

"Most of all, he was thinking: What is so GOOD about being a Goody?"

“Look at how a tiny collection of words, carefully arranged, can say so much. Poems are bite-sized worlds that can be snacked on word by word or swallowed whole in one big gulp. And, like a picture book, a poem always makes us feel something.”

Accumulating “40,000 years of the world’s most amazing art in one dream museum” is a remarkable feat. Creative in its format (as well as in its novice-friendly text), the book/museum opens with a table of contents organized as a “museum map”, detailing the Galleries and Rooms that we will peruse..

“Don’t worry, my little maggot,” said her mother. “I’m sure school will be just ghastly!”