Du Iz Tak?

My three year older and I adore this book. The made up language makes us laugh and we are now fluent in ‘bug’ the storytelling is wonderful and will really help develop those little imaginations. Every time we read this book we discover new things and I feel that it is teaching my child about nature and discovery, feelings, loss and rebirth.

This book is fabulous for helping adults to understand how a child with little language feels when sharing a book. It draws attention to the skills used by children to understand books, as well as highlighting the skills adults need to employ to make stories and books easily understood. The illustrations are quirky and tell the story of a year in nature, and life cycles. A work of genius!

One of our favourites! A made-up language that takes a bit of time to decipher but when you finally do - oh, the joy!! The pictures depict more than you initially might think so every time you read the story you find new details. Highly recommended :)

So sweet and inventive. Don’t have to speak English to read it. Beautiful illustrations. Love it!

This is an incredible picture book– clever, funny, beautiful, thought-provoking. Buy it for everyone.

I love love love this book! The pictures are amazing and once you get into it you can work out the bug language... I haven't used it with pupils yet but will, we will work it all out together and it will help our decoding skills. However you could just read it as it is, as you want to, and enjoy the sounds and illustrations! It is a beautiful book!

A book thta continues to develop with rereads - you are encouraged to decode the language that on first glance looks like gobbledeegook. Beautiful pictures and a story about the seasons told in a playful and unexpected way.

Love this book which makes children use their inference and prediction skills and come up with good suggestions, some of which need to be corrected after reading on! Lovely pictures. Excellent learning device. Thank you.

邦題「なずずこのっぺ」。 昆虫語で書かれた本。 杉田玄白さん等に思いが及ぶ。 それにしても、見事な和訳を見て、 一体原文はどうなっているのかと ふつふつと興味がわき、 ついポチリ。 読み比べてみると、 こちらの方が、ぐっとシンプル みなまで言わずとも 想像の世界を楽しんでという メッセージが伝わるような むしろ、より日本的だったことを発見したりする。 和訳は、子ども向けに うまい具合に補足しているような いやあ、翻訳の世界って深いのですね。 原書と訳書。 どちらも手元に末永く置きたい良書です。

Libro straordinario; letto e riletto, continua a mostrare particolari sempre nuovi, dettagli non visti alla pur minuziosa lettura precedente... una magia continua che si rinnova a ogni incontro con la pagina, come la natura ivi magistralmente rappresentata. Altrettanto potente, il lavoro sul linguaggio: nutre la curiosità di capire, cercare legami tra parola sconosciuta e contesto rappresentato, e poi il gioco a imparare quel linguaggio di insetto, dai suoni così buffi. Tra gli acquisti più felici sinora fatti.

In a language of its own yet easy to translate. Incredibly creative and addictive.

Ein Buch zum Träumen, Nachdenken, immer wieder durchblättern. Verschenke es gerne bei Kindergeburtstagen (3-5).

Gran joya de Carson Ellis. Un libro casi mudo, con una bella intención, historias secundarias y un espléndido trabajo de las imágenes.