<Li> Children's literature portal </Li> <P> The Grouchy Ladybug, also known as The Bad - Tempered Ladybird, is a 1977 children's book written by Eric Carle Published by Greenwillow Books., best known as the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar . Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children ." </P> <P> The story is about an arrogant ladybug who challenges another ladybug to a fight over some aphids but then decides he isn't large enough to be worth fighting . He then travels around the world and encounters a series of increasingly larger animals, challenging each to a fight but then declining and looking for a larger animal . Eventually, he encounters a blue whale, who slaps him with his tail and sends him flying back to where he started . He then decides to be nice and share the aphids with the fellow ladybug . </P> <P> The book is unusual in that the size of the page is not the same throughout the book, but increases with the animal size . Also, the blue whale's tail takes up a page in itself and turning it is meant to represent the slapping motion . The time of day is also shown at the side of each page . </P>

Story of the grouchy ladybug by eric carle
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