Birthday Bugs: A Pop-Up Party [With Party Hat]

David A. Carter. Little Simon, $10.95 (16pp) ISBN 978-0-689-81858-5

Just for fun, the latest bug-infested celebration, Birthday Bugs: A Pop-up Party by David A. Carter features a present on every page. Each can be untied, opened and otherwise unwrapped to see the bugs within: Balloon Bugs, a Smoocher Bug-and bug candles that readers can insert into a climactic buggy birthday cake. .

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