The fly

Focuses on the common housefly and its fondness for all things revolting. The autho takes obvious joy in detailing the housefly's typical meals, which include such savoury delights as garbage-juice soup, dirty diapers, and 'doggie doo'. The Muscidae family (to which the housefly belongs) is depicted...

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Main Author: Gravel, Elise (Author, Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, [2014]
Edition:English edition.
Series:Disgusting critters
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Summary:Focuses on the common housefly and its fondness for all things revolting. The autho takes obvious joy in detailing the housefly's typical meals, which include such savoury delights as garbage-juice soup, dirty diapers, and 'doggie doo'. The Muscidae family (to which the housefly belongs) is depicted with Mom, Dad, a younger sibling, and a slouchy adolescent fly. Includes graphic illustrations and fact-filled text that traces its extensive history as well as its habitats, anatomy, and behaviors.
Item Description:"Originally published [in French] as La mouche by Les Éditions de la Court Échelle Inc."--Page facing title page
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN:9781770496361 (lib. bdg.)
177049636X (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:ELISE GRAVEL is an award-winning author/illustrator from Quebec. She is the winner of this year's Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration in French, and is well-known in Quebec for her original, wacky picture books. She has published a number of books with US publisher Blue Apple and is currently working on a graphic novel for Roaring Brook Press. Having completed her studies in graphic design, Elise found herself quickly swept up into the glamorous world of illustration. Her old design habits drive her to work a little text here and there into her drawings and she loves to handle the design of her assignments from start to finish. She is inspired by social causes and is likes projects that can handle a good dose of eccentricity.