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Eric Carle (June 25, 1929 – May 23, 2021) was a German-American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. His career as an illustrator and children's book author took off after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? He illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.

This monthly challenge celebrates the legacy of a man who cultivated the love of books and reading in multiple generations. Some of his more famous books highlight creatures typically overlooked and underappreciated and those serve as the inspiration for this challenge.

Duration: 1 month from start date

Levels:
The Very Lonely Firefly: 1-8 books
The Grouchy Ladybug: 9-16 books
The Very Busy Spider: 17-24 books
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 25+ books

Rules:
Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species
Option 2: Find insects or spiders in text or title (generic words like 'butterfly' or the specific species are both acceptable)
Option 3: Find insects or spiders on cover
Option 4: Any combination of the above

List of insect and spider species
(view spoiler)[
Alderflies
Ants
Antlions
Archaeognatha
Barklice
Bees
Beetles
Biting lice
Booklice
Butterflies
Bugs
Caddisflies
Cockroaches
Crickets
Damselflies
Dobsonflies
Dragonflies
Earwigs
Fleas
Flies
Grasshoppers
Lacewings
Leaf insects
Lice
Mantids
Mayflies
Moths
Praying Mantids
Scorpionflies
Snakeflies
Stick insects
Stoneflies
Strepsipterans
Sucking lice
Termites
Three-pronged bristletails
Thrips
True Bugs
Wasps
Web-spinners
Zorapterans
brown recluse
comb-footed spiders
black widows
redback
crab spiders
funnel weavers
funnel-web spiders
jumping spiders
Bagheera
lynx spiders
nursery-web spiders
ogre-faced spiders
orb weavers
garden spider
pirate spiders
ray spiders
sac spiders
sheet-web weavers
silk spiders
spitting spiders
tarantulas
trap-door spiders
wandering spiders
water spider
wolf spiders (hide spoiler)]

Re reads are allowed (6 month rule)
Page count = minimum 100 pages
Any format is allowed

(*)Spell-it-Out Rules
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audio book narrator's first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.

As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word






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June Carle's Crawling Critters
June 1-30, 2021
22/22

Butterflies
Buck Heidi Used for Murder Heidi Buck 6/4/21
Urban Tails Pet Shop Mysteries-The Time for Murder Is Meow T.C. LoTempio 6/10/21
T Toasts of Murder Patti Benning 6/8/21
T Tragic Toppings Jessica Beck 6/8/21
Evans, Christian char-Jingle Bells and Deadly Smells Amber Crewes 6/18/21
R Ruby Red Herring Tracy Gardner 6/2/21
Faulkner Rachel char Post Mortem Tonya Kappes 6/17/21
Lynn Cahoon-Killer Comfort Food Lynn Cahoon 6/11/21
I Inn Over Her Head Dixie Davis 6/5/21
Earl Thromm char-A Cut Above Judi Lynn 6/21/21
S Spilled Milk Melinda Craig 6/9/21

Dragonflies
D Deadly Delights Laura Jensen Walker 6/7/21
R Reserved for Murder Victoria Gilbert 6/9/21
Annie Capshaw char-Cooking Up Murder Miranda Bliss 6/7/21
G Gunshots at the Gala Susan Harper 6/6/21
Ora Cable char-Draw and Order Cheryl Hollon 6/23/21
Nissle, Brent char-The Sweet Smell of Murder Cindy Bell 6/16/21
Fairy Garden series-A Glimmer of a Clue Daryl Wood Gerber 6/18/21
Lauren Harris char-Chocolate Chills Rosie A. Point 6/13/21
Irvin, Jack char-King Cake and Grave Mistakes Amber Crewes 6/24/21
Eloise char-Beauty Expos Are Murder Libby Klein 6/22/21
Sunny Charles char-Murderoni and Cheese Rosie A. Point 6/12/21

June 2021
Option 1
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 25+ books
Progress: 12/25+

Alderflies
Ants
Antlions
Archaeognatha
Barklice
🦋Bees🦋 (view spoiler)[B: Brittany (character) The Last Final Girl 🐛🐛
E: Eric (character) Divergent 🐛🐛🐛
E: Eragon 🐛🐛🐛🐛
S: The Selection 🐛🐛🐛 (hide spoiler)]
Beetles
Biting lice
Booklice
Butterflies
B: Baptiste Cochios (character) Haunted Flint 🐛🐛
U: Unwind 🐛🐛🐛🐛
T: They Called Us Enemy 🐛🐛🐛🐛
T: Tom Weylin (character) Kindred 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
E: The Eagle of the Ninth 🐛🐛🐛
R
F: The Farm: A Novel 🐛🐛🐛
L
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🐛🐛🐛🐛
E
S: Sally Hepworth (The Good Sister) 🐛🐛🐛🐛
Bugs
Caddisflies
Cockroaches
Crickets
Damselflies
Dobsonflies
Dragonflies
Earwigs
Fleas
Flies
Grasshoppers
Lacewings
Leaf insects
Lice
Mantids
Mayflies
Moths
Praying Mantids
Scorpionflies
Snakeflies
Stick insects
Stoneflies
Strepsipterans
Sucking lice
Termites
Three-pronged bristletails
Thrips
True Bugs
Wasps
Web-spinners
Zorapterans
brown recluse
comb-footed spiders
black widows
redback
crab spiders
funnel weavers
funnel-web spiders
jumping spiders
Bagheera
lynx spiders
nursery-web spiders
ogre-faced spiders
orb weavers
garden spider
pirate spiders
ray spiders
sac spiders
sheet-web weavers
silk spiders
spitting spiders
tarantulas
trap-door spiders
wandering spiders
water spider
wolf spider

I'm in for this!

June Carle's Crawling Critters
June 1-30, 2021

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 25+ books

25/25 COMPLETED!

Black Widow Spider and Luna Moth

B - The Ballad of Black Tom (6/13)
L - Mogworld (CN - Lord Dreadgrave) (6/17)
A - Half Spent Was the Night: A Witches' Yuletide (AN - Ami) (6/16)
C - Stillhouse Lake (AN - Caine) (6/2)
K - Flyaway (AN - Kathleen) (6/7)
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W - Exit Strategy (AN - Wells) (6/11)
I - In the House in the Dark of the Woods (6/5)
D - Don Quixote (6/12)
O - The Ordeal of the Haunted Room (6/17)
W - Widow's Point (6/22)
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S - Cows (AN - Stokoe) (6/21)
P - Lord of the Flies (CN - Piggy) (6/22)
I - The Midnight Library (CN - Izzy) (6/6)
D - Ghost Camera (AN - Darcy) (6/17)
E - Every Heart a Doorway (6/15)
R - Rogue Protocol (6/9)
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L - Killman Creek (CN - Lanny) (6/29)
U - East of Eden (CN - Una) (6/2)
N - Vampire of the Mists (CN - Natasha) (6/20)
A - All Systems Red (6/4)
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M - Artificial Condition (AN - Martha) (6/7)
O - Of Mice and Men (6/30)
T - The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection (CN - Thomas) (6/14)
H - A Good Marriage (CN - Holt) (6/15)
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Firekeeper's Daughter (Butterfly on cover) (6/20)

Carle's Crawling Critters
Duration: June 1, 2021- ???

Alderflies

A: The Asylum Aberration- Amanda M. Lee- 6/2/21
L: The Legend of Tabby Hollow- Kathi Daley- 7/24/21
D: Dragonsworn- Marty Mayberry- 6/6/21
E: Entreat Me- Grace Draven- 6/20/21
R: Redeemer of the Dead- Tao Wong- 7/18/21
F: Freaky Gifts- Amanda M. Lee- 8/5/21
L: Lowcountry Bombshell- Susan M. Boyer- 8/27/21
I: The Inn Between- Marina Cohen- 6/22/21
E: The Evolution of Mara Dyer- Michelle Hodkin- 7/22/21
S: Stars Above- Marissa Meyer- 7/1/21

Ants

A: Alien Separation- Gini Koch- 7/29/21
N: 9 from the Nine Worlds- Rick Riordan- 6/7/21
T: This Old Homicide- Kate Carlisle- 9/2/21
S: Snap, Crackle ...- Dale Mayer- 8/10/21

Antlions

A: Adrift- Timothy Ellis- 8/11/21
N: Night Child- Jes Battis- 7/31/21
T: Terror in Taffeta: A Mystery- Marla Cooper- 10/2/21
L: Legend- Timothy Ellis- 9/30/21
I: In a Witch's Wardrobe- Juliet Blackwell- 10/5/21
O: An Offer From a Gentleman- Julia Quinn- 7/21/21
N: Night Shifter- Lucia Ashta- 8/20/21
S: Six Geese A-Slaying- Donna Andrews- 8/12/21

Archaeognatha

A: Archangel's Light- Nalini Singh- 11/18/21
R: Rejected- Jaymin Eve- 7/19/21
C: Chrysalis- R.P. Jones- 7/11/21
H: Haunt 'Em High- Lily Harper Hart- 6/1/21
A: Aurora Rising- Amie Kaufman- 11/20/21
E: Excise- Ryan DeBruyn- 8/31/21
O: Old-Fashioned Huntsman- Christopher Johns- 8/17/21
G: Great Hexpectations- Amanda M. Lee- 7/7/21
N: The Night Beat- Gini Koch- 12/27/21
A: Aunt Bessie Decides- Diana Xarissa- 1/19/22
T: Tippy Toe Murder- Leslie Meier- 10/31/21
H: Hunted- P.C. Cast- 6/24/21
A: Alien in Chief- Gini Koch- 2/6/22

Barklice

B: Bourbon Street Ghosts- Lily Harper Hart- 6/9/21
A: Abandoned in Death- J.D. Robb- 2/8/22
R: The Real Macaw- Donna Andrews- 9/7/21
K: Kira- Kate O'Hearn- 7/2/21
L: Land of Drunken Pharaohs: A GameLit Urban Fantasy- Christopher Johns- 11/3/21
I: The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries- Emily Brightwell- 12/17/21
C: Cockatiels at Seven- Donna Andrews- 7/13/21
E: Exclusively Yours- Shannon Stacey- 11/28/21

Bees

B: Beyond- Mercedes Lackey- 6/17/21
E: Ethan- Dale Mayer- 11/29/21
E: Enthroned- K.M. Shea- 11/29/21
S: Shadowcroft Academy For Dungeons: Year One- James A. Hunter- 8/14/21

Beetles

B: A Bad Day for Sunshine- Darynda Jones- 7/15/21
E: Enter System- Tom Larcombe- 11/30/21
E: The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict- Trenton Lee Stewart- 1/16/22
T: Track of the Cat- Nevada Barr- 11/21/21
L: Levi's Legend- Dale Mayer- 12/19/21
E: Erick- Dale Mayer- 2/15/22
S: Swan for the Money- Donna Andrews- 8/25/21

Biting lice
Booklice
Butterflies

Bugs

B: Badger- Dale Mayer- 12/16/21
U: Unraveler- Marty Mayberry- 12/20/21
G: Ghostly Endeavor- Lily Harper Hart- 9/8/21
S: Some Like It Hawk- Donna Andrews- 10/12/21

Caddisflies
Cockroaches
Crickets
Damselflies
Dobsonflies
Dragonflies
Earwigs
Fleas
Flies
Grasshoppers

Lacewings
Leaf insects
Lice
Mantids
Mayflies
Moths
Praying Mantids
Scorpionflies
Snakeflies

Stick insects
Stoneflies
Strepsipterans
Sucking lice
Termites
Three-pronged bristletails
Thrips

True Bugs
Wasps
Web-spinners
Zorapterans
brown recluse
comb-footed spiders
black widows
redback

crab spiders
funnel weavers
funnel-web spiders
jumping spiders
Bagheera
lynx spiders
nursery-web spiders

ogre-faced spiders
orb weavers
garden spider
pirate spiders
ray spiders
sac spiders
sheet-web weavers

silk spiders
spitting spiders
tarantulas
trap-door spiders
wandering spiders
water spider
wolf spiders

June: Carle's Crawling Critters

Level:
The Grouchy Ladybug: 9-16 books

Rules:
Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species

12/12 Completed. Finished

brown recluse
01.B:Bourbon Bliss-Claire Kingsley 6/01/21
02.R:Roses Are Red-Miranda Rijks 6/25/21
03.O:The One for Me-Corinne Michaels 6/23/21
04.W:White Knuckles-Autumn Jones Lake 6/04/21
05.N:Nathan Wolfe-Sandi Lynn 6/06/21

06.R:Rifts & Refrains-Devney Perry 6/24/21
07.E:Escape-C.D. Breadner 6/15/21
08.C:Che-Jessica Gadziala 6/13/21
09.L:Lady Sings the Blues-Billie Holiday 6/14/21
10.U:Unbreak My Heart-Nicole Jacquelyn 6/02/21
11.S:The Sweetest Thing-Jill Shalvis 6/11/21
12.E:Easy Nights-Kristen Proby 6/11/21

June: Carle's Crawling Critters.
Level: The Very Lonely Firefly: 1-8 books.
Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species.
0/8

Ants:
A
N
T
S

Bees:
B
E
E
S

I'd like to participate :)
I'll edit my comment later :)

June: Carle's Crawling Critters
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2021
The Grouchy Ladybug: 9-16 books

4/12 letters

Stick insects:
S - Storm Front
T
I - Into the Drowning Deep
C
K - Katharine Parr, the Sixth Wife

I
N - A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
S
E
C
T
S

What happened to my original sign up message?
I'll start with level two but hope to bump it up later.

Carle's Crawling Critters
Duration: June 2021
Level: The Grouchy Ladybug (9-16 books)
Option 4: Any combination of the above
Completed: 14/17+
100+ pages, Re reads are allowed (6 month rule)


Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species (view spoiler)[
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audio book narrator's first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word (hide spoiler)]

✔Ants (4)
A: Amy Mitchell: The Mystery of Smugglers Cove by Paul Moxham 4* 6/23
N: No Such Thing As A Good Blind Date by Shelly Fredman 3* 6/20 - Brandy Alexander
T: Travels in Alaska book 1 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir 5* 6/21 (or #2 skips and whirls of flies (p. 27))
The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen ?* 6/?
S: Darby Shaw: Raport pelikana=The Pelican Brief by John Grisham 4* 6/7

✔Bees (4)
B: Blackburn, Cindy: Unbelievable 3* 6/23
E: Ernst, Dee: A Mother's Day Murder 4* 6/4 - Mt. Abrams Mystery #1, Ellie Rocca
E: Anne Elliot: Persuasion: with original illustrations by C.E. Brock by Jane Austen & Charles Edmund Brock (illustrations) 5* 6/17
S: Sebastian Ridgeway: Never Gonna Happen by Cynthia Eden 4* 6/10 - Alyssa Kyle (or #2 - Even if she accidentally killed a spider. She’d been working on the guilt issue. (p. 27))


Option 2: Find insects or spiders in text or title (generic words like 'butterfly' or the specific species are both acceptable)
1. Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon 4* 6/2 - stalk around among the red bugs and mosquitoes. (p. 97)
2. The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen 3* 6/18 - her stomach tingled as if she’d swallowed a caterpillar. (p. 309)
3. A Year of Shorts: Flash Fiction by Barbara Venkataraman and 23 other authors 3* 6/24 - “Put spiders in their beds!” (p. 109)
4. Her Sanctuary book 1 in Her Box Set by Toni Anderson 4* 6/25 - A couple of last year’s pups were still visible, but they hadn’t moved much beyond the flick of an ear to remove a pesky fly. (loc. 2754)
5. Apple Pie and Arsenic by C.A. Phipps 3* 6/29 - the curtain she’d had installed to keep out flies, (p. 73)
📌6. The Cruise of the Corwin book 2 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir ?* 6/30? - While we were yet fifty miles from land a small gray finch came aboard and flew about the rigging while we watched its movements and listened to its suggestive notes as if we had never seen a finch since the days of our merry truant rambles along the hedgerows. A few hours later a burly, dozing bumblebee came droning around the pilot-house, seeming to bring with him all the warm, summery gardens we had ever seen. (p. 257 - book 2: pages 195 - 382)

Option 3: Find insects or spiders on cover
1. Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon 5* 6/11 - butterfly
*

Finished at msg. 5

June: Carle's Crawling Critters

Level:
The Grouchy Ladybug: 9-16 books

Rules:
Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species

12/12 Completed. Finished

brown recluse
01.B:Bourbon Bliss-Claire Kingsley 6/01/21
02.R:Roses Are Red-Miranda Rijks 6/25/21
03.O:The One for Me-Corinne Michaels 6/23/21
04.W:White Knuckles-Autumn Jones Lake 6/04/21
05.N:Nathan Wolfe-Sandi Lynn 6/06/21

06.R:Rifts & Refrains-Devney Perry 6/24/21
07.E:Escape-C.D. Breadner 6/15/21
08.C:Che-Jessica Gadziala 6/13/21
09.L:Lady Sings the Blues-Billie Holiday 6/14/21
10.U:Unbreak My Heart-Nicole Jacquelyn 6/02/21
11.S:The Sweetest Thing-Jill Shalvis 6/11/21
12.E:Easy Nights-Kristen Proby 6/11/21

June: Carle's Crawling Critters Challenge
Duration: 6/15/21-7/15/21
Level: The Grouchy Ladybug: (9-16 books)
Option #1 - Spell it Out

Progress: 11/11 ⭐️

🕷 W) Written in Fire -- 6/17/21
🕷 O) Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older -- 7/13/21
🕷 L) How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (MC: Lala) -- 7/5/21
🕷 F) Fearless Jones -- 7/11/21

🕷 S) The Sisterhood -- 6/24/21
🕷 P) His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie -- 7/10/21
🕷 I) The Man by Irving Wallace -- 6/30/21
🕷 D) What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young -- 7/8/21
🕷 E) Exit West -- 7/15/21
🕷 R) Luster by Raven Leilani -- 7/6/21
🕷 S) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies -- 7/9/21

June Carle's Crawling Critters
June 1-30, 2021
26/26

Bee
B - All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 6/6/2021
E - Evelyn's Journey by Melinda Barron - 6/20/2021
E - Reflection by Elizabeth Lim - 6/11/2021

Black Widow
B - My Sinful Desire by Lauren Blakely - 6/4/2021
L - His Old-Fashioned Love by Laylah Roberts - 6/19/2021
A - Midnight Mystique by Anya Summers - 6/18/2021
C - The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie - 6/8/2021
K - Storm by Brigid Kemmerer - 6/6/2021

W - Watching from the Shadows by Samantha A. Cole - 6/27/2021
I - Ian Sawyer in His Angel by Samantha A. Cole - 6/26/2021
D - A Dance of Silver and Shadow: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses by Melanie Cellier - 6/9/2021
O - An Old-Fashioned Man by Laylah Roberts - 6/19/2021
W - John Winston in My Sinful Temptation by Lauren Blakely - 6/30/2021

Butterfly
B - My Sinful Longing by Lauren Blakely - 6/16/2021
U - Undeniable by Callie Harper - 6/15/2021
T - A Tale of Beauty and Beast: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast by Melanie Cellier - 6/10/2021
T - Their Shy Submissive by Anya Summers - 6/17/2021
E - The Effing List by Cherise Sinclair - 6/25/2021
R - A Hero for Summer by Reina Torres - 6/26/2021
F - Cursed by Lizzy Ford - 6/11/2021
L - Ravished River by Lindsay Cross - 6/20/2021
Y - Fall Fast by Zoe York - 6/15/2021

Wasp
W - Wannabe in Wyoming by J.B. Havens - 6/23/2021
A - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole - 6/25/2021
S - Sweet Sinclair by Maren Smith - 6/26/2021
P - Protecting Cheyenne by Susan Stoker - 6/21/2021

I've not got as far as I wished but that's life

Carle's Crawling Critters
Duration: June 2021
Level: The Grouchy Ladybug (9-16 books)
Option 4: Any combination of the above
Completed: 14/17+
100+ pages, Re reads are allowed (6 month rule)


Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species
Ants
A: Amy Mitchell: The Mystery of Smugglers Cove by Paul Moxham 4* 6/23
N: No Such Thing As A Good Blind Date by Shelly Fredman 3* 6/20
T: Travels in Alaska book 1 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir 5* 6/21
The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen ?* 6/?
S: Darby Shaw: Raport pelikana=The Pelican Brief by John Grisham 4* 6/7

Bees
B: Blackburn, Cindy: Unbelievable 3* 6/23
E: Ernst, Dee: A Mother's Day Murder 4* 6/4
E: Anne Elliot: Persuasion: with original illustrations by C.E. Brock by Jane Austen & Charles Edmund Brock (illustrations) 5* 6/17
S: Sebastian Ridgeway: Never Gonna Happen by Cynthia Eden 4* 6/10


Option 2: Find insects or spiders in text or title (generic words like 'butterfly' or the specific species are both acceptable)
1. Frightfully Fortune by Jana Deleon 4* 6/2 - stalk around among the red bugs and mosquitoes. (p. 97)
2. The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen 3* 6/18 - her stomach tingled as if she’d swallowed a caterpillar. (p. 309)
3. A Year of Shorts: Flash Fiction by Barbara Venkataraman and 23 other authors 3* 6/24 - “Put spiders in their beds!” (p. 109)
4. Her Sanctuary book 1 in Her Box Set by Toni Anderson 4* 6/25 - A couple of last year’s pups were still visible, but they hadn’t moved much beyond the flick of an ear to remove a pesky fly. (loc. 2754)
5. Apple Pie and Arsenic by C.A. Phipps 3* 6/29 - the curtain she’d had installed to keep out flies, (p. 73)
📌6. The Cruise of the Corwin book 2 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir ?* 6/30? - While we were yet fifty miles from land a small gray finch came aboard and flew about the rigging while we watched its movements and listened to its suggestive notes as if we had never seen a finch since the days of our merry truant rambles along the hedgerows. A few hours later a burly, dozing bumblebee came droning around the pilot-house, seeming to bring with him all the warm, summery gardens we had ever seen. (p. 257 - book 2: pages 195 - 382)

Option 3: Find insects or spiders on cover
1. Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon 5* 6/11 - butterfly

Completed

June: Carle's Crawling Critters
Duration: 22/5-30/6/23
Levels: The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 25+ books
28/25+

Rules:
Option 1: Spell out insects or spider species
Option 2: Find insects or spiders in text or title
Option 3: Find insects or spiders on cover
Option 4: Any combination of the above

G- The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer 27/5 4★
R- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling 29/5 3.5★
A- A Mutual Favor by Ann Jacobs 23/5 1.5★
S- The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi 25/5 3.5★
S- Prophecy by Sharon Green 25/5 3.5★
H- Hypatia - The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey 22/5 3.5★
O- Odds Against by Dick Francis 31/5 4★
P- Potter - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 30/5 3.5★
P- Potter - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling 4/6 3.5★
E- The Earth Witch by Louise Lawrence 26/5 3★
R- Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb 3/6 3★
S- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 2/6 3★

B- Valentine Kisses by Donna Bell,Catherine Blair,Lynn Collum 29/5 2.5★
U- Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson 1/6 3★
T- Trudie - Barrenjoey Road by Neil Mercer,Ruby Jones 8/6 3.5★
T- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty 10/6 2★
E- Eric Sinclair - Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson 1/6 3.5★
R- Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 2/6 3★
F- Fiona - Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic 13/6 4.5★
L- CSI Told You Lies by Meshel Laurie 24/5 4.5★
I- Money from Holme by Michael Innes 15/6 2.5★
E- Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 28/5 3.5★
S- No Place for Death by Sherry Lewis 23/5 3★

W- The War Nurses by Anthea Hodgson 26/5 4.5★
A- The Affair by Lee Child 22/5 4★
S- Sirius - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling 6/6 2★
P- Potter - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling 5/6 3★
S- Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris 9/6 3.5★