The Travel Adventures of Lilly P Badilly: Costa Rica
The Travel Adventures of Lilly P. Badilly: Costa Rica is a children s book with accompanying audio CD following the adventures of a tiny millipede with a talent for playing the piano. Along with her grandparents, the plucky millipede goes on a wondrous journey deep into the Costa Rican rainforest! The Travel Adventures of Lilly P. Badilly features a number of catchy songs sung by various creatures; these songs are played with music on the audio CD, making for a most enjoyable reading and listening experience. Simple yet colorful illustrations round out this surprisingly long and involved picturebook adventure. Highly recommended. --Children s Bookwatch Midwest Book ReviewWe had such fun reading this book - our 6-year old daughter was laughing on each and every page (especially about the grampa's antics), and the music was so catchy that she got up to dance, as well. This book really addresses a plethora of things that are important to children - being afraid to travel, conquering one's fears, being brave, having fun, making friends, helping out, and all sorts of intercultural issues. Add to that some geography and animal awareness, and you've got a REALLY great educational book that is very charming and eminently readable. We loved the cd. Our daughter has listened to it three times today already. The original music is really fun - I would highly recommend this book to anyone! --Jssie Voigts, PhD Wandering EducatorsLilly P. Badilly is a millipede. She lives in the Miami airport with her grandparents, Nellie O. Badilly and Willie Z. Badilly. Lilly likes to read and play her piano. She also likes to sing as she sings little ditties throughout the story. The airport is a noisy place to live. So the Badillys decide to take a trip. They settle on going to Costa Rica after grandpa checks the flight schedules. They stowaway in a human passenger s briefcase. No snakes on this plane, just some silly millipedes. The Badillys arrive in Costa Rica and eat a cast-off banana. Children will enjoy that it seems to make grandpa Badilly [pass gas]. Meanwhile, the reader shadows the Badillys and learns about the people and places of Costa Rica, such as the people speak Spanish, the weather, the spider that captured them and a beetle named Riddle in a web. Oh, will the Badillys be able to escape from the web? Or will they become meals for the spider? Well, no shortage of drumsticks I guess. Along the way Lilly sings her ditties. The book comes with an audio CD so that children can hear the travels and travails of the Badillys. No age range is given, but can be read to smaller children. The grade range for reading I would say starts at fourth grade (third grade for an accomplished reader). The paintings in the book are vibrant and reflect the story. And it helps children learn about geography in a new way. --Joh L Hoh, Jr. Book Ideas.com